Word: cocos
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...have agreed to pay the $7-per-month service fee; the rest pay 25¢ per parking period.) Text messages inform parkers that their time is up, with the option to add more. "It's like an insurance policy against an $18 ticket," says city manager David Brown. --By Coco Masters...
...sweating in their seats. "Like samurais giving up topknots and swords, it requires a change in mentality for salarymen to abandon suits and ties--it's their identity," says Environment Minister Yuriko Koike. An unexpected bonus: the campaign may generate as much as $942 million in fashion sales. --By Coco Masters/New York. With reporting by Yuki Oda/Tokyo
...Carol's Daughter ad campaign featuring Jada Pinkett Smith has helped propel online and catalog orders up 300% and 500%, respectively, over last year, says Price. Next: an expanded men's line and 12 new retail stores across the country, including a Harlem flagship opening in August. --By Coco Masters...
...happens like that sometimes. You make an investment, and along the way, it ends up turning into a home. --Reported by Sonja Steptoe and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles, Anne Berryman and Amy Bonesteel/Atlanta, Jeanne DeQuine/Miami, Eric Ferkenhoff and Leslie Whitaker/Chicago, Wendy Grossman/ Houston and Barbara Kiviat and Coco Masters/New York...
...brainstorming that's bigger than one person standing at a flip chart," says Cunningham. "And there's a timelessness to it. You can do a wiki over one year or 10." And have almost as much fun as Jimmy Wales does for the whole decade. -With reporting by Coco Masters/New York