European steel maker Arcelor unveiled a profits leap and a near doubling of its dividend on Thursday to ward off a hostile takeover bid by Mittal Steel.
Cotton, a natural vegetable fiber from the seed pod of the cotton plant, can be a fickle fabric. Due to cotton's tendency to expand when wet and shrink as it dries, most everyone has a tale to tell of cotton catastrophes in the laundry room, from shrunken...
