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If the Y2K problem scares you because you might have to eat canned peas for a while, a suburban entrepreneur will come to the rescue. The battle over regulating computer data-scrambling technologies resumes in Congress Thursday, when opponents of strict U.S. export controls plan to reintroduce their proposal to scrap the limits. In a live demonstration of the promise of a superfast Internet, a physician in Washington collaborated Wednesday night over a special high-speed network with surgeons working on a patient at a hospital in Ohio. Microsoft Corp. opened an online store to sell computer software and hardware in a bid to take advantage of the 2 million daily visitors to the No. 1 software maker's Web site. A dispute over the makeup of a congressional commission on taxing Internet commerce has left the panel in limbo.