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Medical mishaps kill between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans per year--more than breast cancer, car accidents, or AIDS--and cost an estimated $9 billion annually.
But the fact that so many past market mishaps have happened during October (some famous, like the 1929 and 1987 crashes, others familiar only to insiders) makes traders jittery because they're afraid that everybody else is superstitious.
The Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons are, the paper observes, probably, like the U.S. and Soviet programs of the 50s and 60s, quite unsafe--vulnerable to both physical mishaps and command and control mistakes.
The Los Angeles Times leads with a pact signed by Gov. Gray Davis and 57 Indian leaders which would allow an expansion of gambling operations on California reservations; the top non-local story at the LAT is the agreement between the U.S. and Russia to co-staff a Colorado command center that would monitor "missile early-warning data," in case the Y2K computer bug causes missile "mishaps" (read "launches").
There's a bigger point than just manufacturing mishaps at stake in the Intel sell-off, though, and that's what you might call the "fetishization of margins" problem, which I touched on in last week's discussion of Amazon.com's zShops initiative.