i m bad at math. if you re not as great as mike is at math, you spend more time doing it and you have the same aptitude. nine out of ten kids in japan, if you ask them, are you good or bad? it depends how hard i try if i succeed or not. we re competing for engineering jobs. we need to worry about this. why don t you e-mail us. do you think it is laziness why we re so low on our math skills? if you don t want to be lazy, send us a letter in the mail. handwrite a letter, put it in the mail and put a stamp on it. what is this stamp you speak of, clayton? i don t know. i haven t seen one in years. we have other headlines to get to you. a massive system failure left people on food stamps with no way to buy groceries yesterday and threatening chaos. the glitch affected people in 17 states. xerox, the company responsible blamed a faulty routine system