Word: kiosk
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...125th Street and Lenox Ave. newspaper kiosk, I spotted a colorful brochure among a stack of giveaways. Multicolored lettering against neon orange implored: "Harlem: Your Uptown Spot to Shop!" Using this map of stores, restaurants, and services as a guide I made a random selection of locations and jumped to this new shopping challenge...
...point-deduction system for misplaced posters should also be reevaluated. If a candidate has 25 posters (of the hundreds that get hung each season) that are either covering that of another campaign, or are put up more than one time on a kiosk face or bulletin board, that candidate is disqualified from the race. The problem is that the rule does not acknowledge the fact that misplaced posters—especially those accidently misplaced by otherwise good-intentioned campaign volunteers—can be promptly removed without further damage to the election process...
...tribal people of Dhar in central India's Madhya Pradesh have found magic in a box. Gendalal Verma, a farmer from Bagdi village, seeks its wisdom every week. He rides his motorcycle along 8 km of bumpy paths until he comes to a simple PC housed in a kiosk. He doesn't surf, but looks up the price of garlic in the wholesale markets of nearby towns to make sure area middlemen aren't shortchanging him. The difference can be more than $4.25 on 100 kg of garlic, and Verma has 9,000 kg ready to harvest. "The traders...
...villages through a series of 34 rural cyberkiosks and links them to the district administration through an intranet. Half the users earn less than $300 a year each, and one out of six has to walk at least 5 km to reach a computer. Charging about 10 cents, a kiosk manager records villagers' complaints or provides them with information. That user fee makes kiosks self-sustaining...
...After Harvard Film Archive staff failed to poster an outside kiosk earlier this year, Harvard Film Archive manager Julie A. Buck recalls, Killip left a large hand-written note on the wall, saying, “this is the most blatant show of incompetency, even for you people.” One staff member complained directly to Ervin that Killip told three staff members he watched them “all the time...