Harness the excess power in your PC to fight Cancer - I'm a fan and supporter of Seti@home but here's something new. Computer owners have the opportunity to use their personal computing resources to perform scientific research, such as searching for improved treatments and potential cures for cancer and other diseases, by downloading a computer program to their PCs from the Internet. It is projected that the resulting "virtual supercomputer" will ultimately be capable of more than 50 teraflops (trillions of operations per second) of computational power and involve millions of participants, and will be ten times more powerful than today's highest performing supercomputers. In many ways this is even more appealing than Seti@home.

And Remember: The Howard Hughes plane, "The Spruce Goose" was actually made of birch wood. The nickname was not invented for the Hughes plane anyway. At the time, almost any wooden plane was nicknamed a Spruce Goose. When Hughes built the massive aircraft, the media just perpetuated the name. It is said that Hughes greatly disliked the moniker. Joe Burns, Ph.D.

"Fear of a Hacked Planet", MSN Computing Central - Uncle Sam subjects new drugs to thorough scrutiny before approving them. Were he equally careful with new laws, people wouldn't wonder whether his top hat and beard conceal Big Brother underneath. At issue: the Council of Europe's Cybercrime Convention, which, said former deputy associate attorney general Ethan M. Posner during congressional testimony in May 2000, "will define cybercrime offenses and address such topics as jurisdiction, international cooperation, and search and seizure." Not to mention threatening the rights of individuals and businesses worldwide, according to numerous opposition groups including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Democracy & Technology, or CDT.