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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.
In the latest report of IRS mishaps, the LA Times fronts the agency's sheepish acknowledgment that it has been treating 630,000 taxpayers to special natural-disaster-area privileges, even though most haven't been beset by any natural catastrophes at all.
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").
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.
(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."