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By Denny Jacob Shares of gifts provider 1-800-Flowers.com rose 14% to $7.97 on Thursday as gross profit margins continued to improve in the latest quarter and executives called for further margin growth. The stock, which is down 17% on the year, is on pace for its largest one-day percentage increase since Feb. 2. The Jericho, N.Y.-based company increased its gross …

Text size A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but with a corpse flower — well, tinkering around the edges isn’t going to help. A giant Amorphophallus Titanium opened its less-than-delicate petals this week at the Huntingdon Library near Los Angeles, an event that only comes once every few years. And it is giving off a powerful …