Tattle tables.

* Strike one: Moore County swung and missed in its first attempt at using eBay to sell about 32,000 of the 165,000 sports cards that a resident had donated when the only bid didn't meet the reserve price of nearly 3 cents a card. Finance Officer John Frye says he'll keep bringing it down.

* Real cutups: How do 105 Presbyterian Hospital docs pass the time on a bus ride from arlotte to Raleigh to lobby legislators for malpractice-law reform? By watching a continuing-education flick on smallpox.

* Don't blink and drive: N.C. Insurance Commissioner Jim Long says reductions in auto-insurance rates that his office negotiated will save Tar Heel consumers $500 million this year. Insurance execs say the cuts apply only to drivers who pay the maximum rate -- less than 5%.

* Fast track: Tennessee-based retailer Dollar General hailed new CEO David Perdue as "a multidimensional executive with a proven record of making things happen." The former Reebok exec sprinted from the top spot at Kannapolis-based Pillowtex, now up for sale, after only eight months on the job, for which he snagged $3.2 million in salary, bonuses and stock.

* It's in your hands: The Durham Crisis Response Center is trying to discourage men from abusing...