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There’s a little childish game I play with each visit to Starbucks: each time I order a ‘medium size latte’. Now for the benefit of the few readers who have not yet visited Starbucks, the key is that there is no such thing as ‘medium-sized’ at Starbucks. Their marketing folks have come up with a scheme for describing the size of their cups as ‘Tall, Venti, and Grande’ to replace the ‘small, medium and large’…

It’s a jungle out there! Why, out of the large variety of plants, each with relatively equal access to sunlight, water, air and favorable climatic conditions, do some individual plants thrive and grow, while others are choked and crowded out? Why is it that some Internet sites thrive and do well for their owners, while others wither and die, or simply just limp along? The answer to both questions is the same: survival of the…