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...February 2006, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz was asked on TV if opening 1,300 stores in the US in a single year was "too much too fast." "Not at all," the then-chairman said. "We have been a growth company for the last 20 years. And the hallmark of that growth has been our ability to invest ahead of the growth curve...
...them. But after my first day living alone in a three-bedroom apartment (the other two rooms in my sublet are empty for the summer), all I wanted to do was call my mommy. Yet while I'm not always immediately grown-up, I tend to learn and adapt fast, perhaps a benefit of being so young. I'm learning to buy my own groceries, navigate the subways, and avoid making eye contact with strangers. Three and a half weeks into my summer, I'm back to feeling like I'm 20 or 21. Except for the groceries part...
...volunteers have been deployed to battle the algae, says Gao Zhenhui, director of the State Oceanic Administration's North China Sea Environmental Monitoring Center in Qingdao. "At first we didn't realize how big it would be," Gao says. "We didn't think it would happen so fast." Last June, Qingdao saw an algae blooms that covered 27 square miles, and a second one in September covered three square miles. But those are dwarfed by the current algae bloom, which covers 154 square miles...
...Spanish bring the rest of Europe along? Löw seems to think so. "We've been able to show that we, too, are fast and capable of combinations," he noted. And hinted that an uptempo German team will on display in the qualifying campaign for the 2010 World...
...While Microsoft is exponentially larger than Google - number 44 on the Fortune 500 list versus Google at 150 - Google's Web business (advertising mostly) is growing so fast, it's poised to rival Redmond's operating system revenues by 2010. And that's the problem. As more and more of what Windows does moves up into the cloud - into Google's always-on, give-'em-whatever-they-want-for-free servers - what becomes of the company that Gates built...