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...Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and funded by private investors, the easyQube kiosk is modeled after low-tech oversized mailboxes secured by key that have long been used in Germany, the Netherlands and other European countries. EasyQubes, on the other hand, open with an electronic swipe card, and recipients are notified via email when their package has arrived...
...many packages they receive. When you order a package, instead of giving your home address, you have it sent to a special, local address provided by IdentiCert. Once the company receives your package, it delivers it to the easyQube in your building (which it unlocks using the swipe card system) and sends you an email. Consumer access to each compartment - which measures about 2 ft. in height, depth and width - is managed using a timeshare system similar to Zipcars and NetJets. Instead of having permanent use of a specific compartment, you are simply renting the space when a package...
...Mandarin lesson in an office conference room. With a quick "Bravo," for Francesco, Alessandra Brezzi, a moonlighting professor of Chinese from the nearby University of Urbino, begins drilling her seven students on useful workplace vocabulary (ziliao/raw material; caiwuchu/accounting department) and proper Chinese etiquette (introduce yourself with a business card ready; never open a gift right away). Of course, these lessons are by now standard for anyone in the West looking to drum up business prospects in Beijing or Xiamen. But the group in Pesaro are not M.B.A. students or venture capitalists. They are clock-punching engineers, mechanics and secretaries...
FACE FACTS The so-called Real ID Act, which would mandate a national digital-identification card by 2013 for every person living or working in the U.S., may have lost a funding battle in July, but it might not be finished...
...minors and calls for a registration system to identify "weekend tourists." For now, that watchful but tolerant approach is getting the endorsement of Dutch public heath experts. Unless the new research commissioned by the minister arrives at new insights, the government appears more likely to play the regulation card than to support a total ban on magic mushrooms...