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Resources I've found useful are:
http://www.nerc-essc.ac.uk/~dwcp/Latex/ (more up-to-date, and UK-hosted, version of the above)
Tables that fill the page
Using tabularx you can get tables that fill the width of the page and automatically assign space for the columns without having to specify a parbox of such and such a width.
Just use X for the dynamic columns and specify the width of the table as \textwidth
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{lX}
foo & lots of text here that wraps and goes over the line length \\
bar & Look another one! \\
\end{tabularx}