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...text message. For example, Nationwide, the insurance and financial-services company, encourages visitors on Times Square's Reuters billboard to send in snapshots via a company website. Each afternoon it posts selected photos on the 23-story sign. Up the street, Walt Disney World advertises a new theme-park attraction. Send a text message to the number posted, and seconds later your phone buzzes with an SMS from Disney asking whether you want further promotions. For now, the advertiser knows only your number. Before too long, though, it could know your name too. Pretty cool stuff--and maybe just...
...officials in the city of Zhongshan decided to tear down a shipyard and replace it with a park. The city, situated across the mouth of the Pearl River from Hong Kong, has a tradition of putting its wealth to good civic use: its tidy streets are adorned with banks of flowers and well-manicured trees, and it has racked up model-city awards from Beijing and the United Nations. But these shiny credentials presented a dilemma for local leaders?their political promotion would depend in part on outdoing their predecessors, and Zhongshan didn't leave much room for improvement...
...thought?a reminder that landscaping needn't be expensive and that even agriculture can look modern. In Taizhou, Yu un-channeled a local river, removing cement barriers and letting it flood into a wetland through which he snaked bicycle paths, docks and terraces. In Zhongshan, Yu's shipyard park, which like the campus was honored by the American Society of Landscape Architects, has quickly become a local landmark. On a recent weekday afternoon, the park was full. Toddlers climbed happily over pebbled railroad tracks, men played chess on a platform surrounded by tall reeds, a bride posed for a portrait...
...mark the occasion with "eco-palms." Cooperatives in Mexico and Guatemala have agreed to harvest sustainably, taking only a few fronds per plant. Churches pay premium prices, helping the workers who collect the fronds. "We must be good to our neighbors," says Pastor Glenn Berg-Moberg of St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minn. "Even ones we will never meet...
...namo and warrantless eavesdropping on phone calls. It is a typical liberal attitude to criticize and second-guess the government's tactics in the war against terrorism. Thank God, the media do not dictate U.S. policy and the general public is smarter than you are. Sam Thomas New Hyde Park, New York, U.S. Security in the Global Market Columnist Joe Klein's "It's economic security, stupid" [March 13] hit the nail on the head. The U.S. response to the now defunct Dubai Ports deal was a global public relations nightmare. Although I agree with Klein that a "drastically revised...