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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.
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").
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.
Although such mishaps may not have long-term effects, they do contribute to patient stress.
(In other golfing mishaps, the Enquirer claims that Sean Connery "screamed in pain" after being "hit in the butt by a stray golf ball that raised an angry red welt."