'vCJD timebomb' fears discounted
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There is unlikely to be a large number of deaths in the UK from the human form of mad cow disease, researchers predict.
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BRITAIN has exported thousands of blood products potentially infected with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, to 11 countries.
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By Andrew Kantor, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Mar. 10--Daylight-saving time arrives early this year, and some local companies are preparing for the potential pitfalls it brings.
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System latency can mean losses for stock traders and virtual death for online gamers. The developer of the EVE Online game hopes high-performance computing tools can save the day for its players.
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THE brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is rare, and the risk of person-to-person infection is even rarer. But 1056 people who have had neurosurgery over the past 18 months at Royal Melbourne Hospital have cause to be very worried.
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Nice blog post via Slava  criticizing the quality of the Java runtime and hotspot compiler:  "The HotSpot source code is a bad joke We wasted an afternoon and had a good laugh on IRC today, looking over parts of the SCSL sources to HotSpot and the sun.* classes. I can't give too much detail or paste code samples because that would violate Sun's ... license, but here are some highlights:"  This is my favorite one:  "A lot of preprocessors are used. This includes a mix of awk, sed, shell scripts, and indeed, Scheme! Yes, the JVM source includes jscheme.jar, used to generate some CORBA classes. Considering that Sun talks about how bad preprocessors are, its hypocritical of them to use preproces ...
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Inexperienced firms "are going to burn their fingers," says one VC veteran. But the greater risk is in being left behind.
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Blog: No need to reset your watch yet--but redistribution of ocean mass could make days a fraction of a second shorter in the next 200 years.
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PETALING JAYA: Virus experts at British software security firm Sophos Plc have advised customers not to panic, following media reports of a Trojan horse which infects cellphones.
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Y\\u2009es, this is 2007. Don't adjust your clocks - not yet anyway.  You didn't wake up this morning back in 1999, once again facing the Y2K scare. Though, as the new earlier daylight-saving time starting date approaches, it may feel more and more like it.
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Two scary things can destroy the value of your portfolio.
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Scientists develop a technique they hope will improve detection of mad cow disease (vCJD) in humans.
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What do you think of the Medicare drug discount-card program? (Check all that apply.). I&#39;m eligible but I don&#39;t use it. Biopsy results confirm a young Dublin man has contracted the human form of mad cow disease.
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By Christopher Schwarzen, Seattle Times  CORRECTION: Clarification: Information in this article, originally published May 23, was corrected June 1.
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The options market's fear gauges fell  back to historic lows on Friday -- a sign that some investors  are showing confidence about current stock valuations, analysts  said.
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Emory officials believe Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), an extremely rare degenerative disease, is the probable diagnosis of an Emory University Hospital patient following a brain biopsy, and are taking steps on the basis of that assumption.
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The flu vaccine shortage might stretch into 2005 if one key US supplier cannot resume manufacturing in time. By Henry Barrios, The Bakersfield Californian via AP.