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The San Francisco Examiner is to be lauded for rushing into its four-star, final edition the tragic news of Jerry Garcia's death on the day he died, Aug. 9. But they should have done a little better job of juxtaposing the quotes from Marin County Sheriff's Capt. Tom McMains. "[Garcia] appears to have died from natural causes," McMains said. "This was part of his trying to get in better health." ... In last week's San Francisco Bay Guardian, the subject was diapers, the author was Andrew Leonard, and the gaff was biological. Leonard writes, "Basically, newborns metastasize mother's milk directly into a greenish-yellow substance that ain't like any poop you've ever seen." Unless the babies in question have cancer, Leonard probably meant "metabolize." ... And finally, on the cover of last week's SF Weekly, the word "Mission" was misspelled. In the headline. In 60-point type.