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The makers of high fructose corn syrup want to sweeten its image with a new name: corn sugar. The Corn Refiners Association applied Tuesday to the federal government for permission to use the name on food labels. The group hopes a new name will ease confusion about the sweetener, which is used in soft drinks, bread, cereal and other products.

Americans’ consumption of corn syrup has fallen to a 20-year low on consumer concerns that it is more harmful or more likely to cause obesity than ordinary sugar, perceptions for which there is little scientific evidence.

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This is the moment when photographer Mark Pain found himself in the line of fire of Tiger Woods at the Ryder Cup. The American world No 1 was partnering Steve Stricker and attempting to chip his third shot on the final hole of yesterday morning’s fourball against Europe’s Ian Poulter and Ross Fisher on to the green.

Do you like ‘green’ computers and also want to reduce the cost of high priced fancy cases? Recompute has the solution for you in their cardboard encased case. Just be certain not to employ a Cyrix chip or you may burn down your computer.

We expend bunches of keystrokes detailing how to recover from disaster, everything from sweeping spyware from your system to how to get your data back from the digital graveyard, but equally important is how to avoid potentially catastrophic scenarios in the first place. As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, or in in the world of PCs, hours of frustration.

On the flip side, maybe you have a masochistic desire to destroy your system. What better way to force your hand at upgrading then to render your current rig all but unusable? We don’t condone killing hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars of hardware, but hey, it’s your stuff at stake, and how you choose to use (or abuse) it is up to you.

Either way, follow along as we show you the 10 worst things you can do to your PC and how to avoid them.