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...selling ATMs, which shipped more than 50,000 cash dispensers last year. Rival manufacturers Diebold and Fujitsu are also talking up Web-enabled machines. But all agree the ATM experience will be narrowly tailored to keep the line moving, limiting customers' choices to, say, a couple of flower arrangements or a short list of CDs. The new platforms can also restrict activities at certain times--for example, to prevent people from filling out loan applications at 5 p.m. on payday. Ray Gilmore, 16, recently tried to cash his first paycheck at an ATM in a 7-Eleven in Austin, Texas...
...bread slices on plates with paper doilies. There were also assorted cookies from boxes of Pepperidge Farm’s Entertainment Collection (Milano, Geneva, Bordeaux, Brussels, Lisbon, Chessmen and Chocolate Pirouettes) arranged in enticing circles. The pièce de resistance was a white porcelain bowl with a blue flower pattern filled to the brim with fresh strawberries...
...administered by two masseuses working in tandem, to the out-there, like vasti, a cleansing enema of oil, milk or herbal water. Some more traditional Ayurvedic centers offer therapeutic purging and leeching, but most tourist spas stick to the treatments that actually feel good, like massages and herbal or flower baths...
...selling ATMs, which shipped more than 50,000 cash dispensers last year. Rival manufacturers Diebold and Fujitsu are also talking up Web-enabled machines. But all agree the ATM experience will be narrowly tailored to keep the line moving, limiting customers' choices to, say, a couple of flower arrangements or a short list of CDs. The new platforms can also restrict activities at certain times-for example, to prevent people from filling out loan applications at 5 p.m. on payday. Ray Gilmore, 16, recently tried to cash his first paycheck at an ATM in a 7-Eleven in Austin, Texas...
During a mid-1880s visit to Shamian, the Shaoguan-based Wesleyan missionary John Turner described "a beautiful island, fronted with lawns and flower gardens, with the foreign consular and merchants' houses standing behind them, on either side of an avenue of banyan trees." That quaint scene greets today's visitors, too, thanks largely to late-'90s restoration, a combination of government and private initiatives. All of the old buildings now bear plaques describing their history, which makes a walking tour of the 3-sq-km island both possible and pleasant...