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(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."
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.
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.
Although such mishaps may not have long-term effects, they do contribute to patient stress.
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.