www.Publix.com - Publix's sales for the second quarter of 2008 were $5.9 billion, a 3.5 percent increase from last year's $5.7 billion. Comparable-store sales for the second quarter of 2008 increased 1.3 percent.

Net earnings for the second quarter were $295.8 million this year, compared to $306.4 million in 2007, a decrease of 3.5 percent. Earnings

Publix's sales for the first h...

Most people assumed Sanders was English, but he was actually born in St. Petersburg, Russia and led a secure, privileged childhood until he and his family were forced to flee to England after the revolution of 1917. Sanders was unhappy at school and unsure of what he wanted to do in life ("My own desire as a boy was to retire," he claimed). For four years, he worked for a tobacco company in Arg...