Extracting lessons from foul-ups is the focal point of Michael Alter's "Best New Mistake" awards at SurePayroll, a payroll-services company in Glenview, Ill.

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Michael Alter, founder and president of SurePayroll, a Chicago-based payroll firm, says that since the recession at least two or three payroll firms a year have been convicted of tax scams.

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Another possible drawback: In some cases, crowd-sourced workers assigned to short tasks aren't likely to feel any real engagement with a business, says Michael Alter, the president of Chicago-based small-business payroll firm SurePayroll.

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The honest ones, like writer Michael Lind, argue for sacrificing small business at the alter of corporatism.

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Doctors and Propecia users should be aware of the potential serious risks of the medication, "especially as it is being used cosmetically, to alter a normal age-related process, " said study researcher Dr. Michael Irwig, an assistant professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.

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