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Legislation passed to encourage giving in the wake of Hurricane Katrina will make 2005 the best year for charities in U.S.,history, Leo Arnoult, past chairman of Giving USA and president of his own consultancy, said all signs indicate that there should be a healthy increase over last years total charitable donations even to charities that had nothing to do with ...

I received a Spam message through Friendster today and was very upset because it was the first Spam I have seen there. I first questioned why one of my contacts would ‘invite’ a spammer into their network knowing fair well the effects would ripple out at least three degrees.  But after further examination I found that the spammer had no ...

Whoa! Here’s a hypothesis about cancer from some researchers that gives the whole process a significant twist. A Johns Hopkins researcher, with colleagues in Sweden and at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, suggests that the traditional view of cancer as a group of diseases with markedly different biological properties arising from a series of alterations within a cell’s nuclear ...

This Wired article has some interesting vignettes on this year’s tech stories. From Wired: "It was the year corporate and university data spills just kept coming, and the Supreme Court decided technology companies can be held responsible for the bad behavior of their users. Big firms lined up to help repressive governments; governments helped themselves to private phone calls and ...