<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080701/bs_nm/starbucks_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080701/2008_07_01t163321_450x326_us_starbucks.jpg?x=130&y =94&q=85&sig=CXpaVeWftI4uQdibBK661g--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Starbucks customers wait to order in the store on Sao Paulo's Alameda Santos, June 11, 2008. (Rickey Rogers/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Starbucks Corp said on
Tuesday it plans to close another 500 underperforming stores
and eliminate as many as 12,000 fill- and part-time positions.</p><br clear="all"/>

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(Reuters)