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...story goes, on Flanders Field, one of the bloodiest battlefields in Belgium during World War II, no poppy flowers were able to grow before the war. Numerous explosions and artillery fire during the fighting, however, changed the composition of the soil, making it possible for poppies to grow in the field...
...SCARLETT JOHANSSON. This is no silver-haired sophisticate like Tom Cruise's assassin in this summer's Collateral. "Bobby Long is bruised fruit," says Travolta, 50, of his character. "Kind of decrepit." As for the premature aging, no biggie. "It's never been an issue for me to grow old, grow gray, grow fat, grow skinny." So far only one critic has balked at the look: "My daughter freaked...
...Rule: when isolated on small islands in the absence of big predators, large mammals tend to evolve toward smaller sizes. That's because they don't need to fight off attackers and because smaller individuals can get by better on limited resources. (Paradoxically, small animals on islands tend to grow larger, and Flores was populated with giant rats and lizards, including Komodo dragons...
Misguided acquisitions, though, are just one way companies become too big for their britches. More often a solid business simply tries to grow too fast. That certainly seems to be the case with Krispy Kreme, the North Carolina doughnut chain that until recently had investors and customers eating out of its hand. In the past year, its stock sank; the company suffered its first loss since going public in 2000; and sales at stores open at least 18 months, which had been regularly posting double-digit gains, went flat...
...grow, UPS is expanding rapidly into the logistics business...