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Amid recessionary closings and dire, apocalyptic mutterings, 7-Eleven, the world's largest chain store, has announced plans to open 200 more locations this year. While the company is building across the country, its two biggest areas of expansion will be California and the New York metropolitan...

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the minority population in the United States reached an estimated 104.6 million, or 34 percent of the nation's total population, on July 1 2008. That's up from 31 percent when the census was last taken in 2000. According to the latest data, nearly one in every...