'Starbucks has bounced back stronger than anyone predicted'

Some highlights from Seattle Times reporter Melissa Allison's pre-shareholders' meeting story: * "Starbucks found ways to make money without adding seven stores a day, as it had in 2007." (It now adds two stores a day.) * After falling from a high of 176,000 employees in late 2008 to 137,000 in 2010, the company's head count grew to 149,000 last fall. * Starbucks has fewer than 7,000...