Word: customizer
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...once custom to lightly sprinkle, not douse, one's family and neighbors with flower stems and tree branches that had been dipped in water as a sign of reverence. "When I was young, first we had to splash our grandparents and parents to show our respect," says Mie Duc Hong, a 40-year-old Dai woman who lives in the Yunnanese village of Manchunman. "Then we could go splash our friends. It was a lot of fun. But it wasn't like it is now where people get so wet. We just sprinkled them with drops of water, not whole...
...free labor," Grant Harris says of the 16-week internship he completed this winter with A Tailored Suit, which makes custom clothing for men. The 26-year-old, who lives in Leesburg, Va., and has an MBA, spent about 10 hours a week doing tasks like writing articles for the company's fashion guide, and he credits the owner with helping him launch his business as a style consultant. "I did it for the experience, and that's what I got," Harris says...
Elements of the Kyrgyz nomadic heritage still shape much of this largely pastoral and agrarian society. The brand of Sufi Islam practiced by the majority of the population has blended easily with sky- and nature-worshipping traditions of an earlier era. Though now illegal, the distasteful custom of wife-kidnapping - where a woman is unsuspectingly and often forcibly seized and taken to her husband-to-be's home - perseveres in parts of the country. (See a TIME piece on whether Moscow subverted the upheaval in Kyrgyzstan...
...production, Santoro put the word out through Facebook and other social media sites, recruiting 50,000 people who paid €2.50 ($3.33) apiece. Corporate sponsors provided the Internet and satellite feeds. "The last time Santoro was off the air he was basically unplugged," says Bernhard Warner, director of Custom Communications, a London-based social media consultancy. "Now what his supporters are able to do using social media is start a movement and get his voice...
...York City's Rockefeller Center, and the Shake Shack is next opening up in Miami, Dubai and, word has it, London. But each restaurant's primary burger would be easily recognizable to Warren G. Harding. One has a potato roll, the other a sesame bun, and both have custom grinds from meat guru Pat LaFrieda, but really, they're examples of perfection rather than creation. (To be fair, both have great specialty products - the Shack a remarkable breaded portobello burger, and Bill's a double-patty onion-and-butter Fat Cat on an English muffin. But those aren't really...