Many select towns on Japan's north-eastern coast that were devastated by the tsunami of March 2011.
But I've come to enjoy other brief-o-matics: with Patch, the local-news platform, I select towns I want to hear about, and then Alexa beep-boops her way through updates about the Gold Star Bridge, bears roaming through West Hartford, a retired hockey player cited for heroics, or truly hardcore stuff like "Wethersfield Residents Have Plenty of Options for Discarding Old Medication".
Last month, WeChat launched City Services in select towns across China.
Google plans to test ultra-high-speed Internet access in select towns to demonstrate what America might look like as a worldwide leader in access speed.
Broadband internet is available in select towns and cities and is provided by the state-run BSNL and by private companies.
Broadband internet is available in select towns and cities and is provided by the state-run BSNL and by other private companies.
As described in greater detail elsewhere (Qiu P, Caine ED, Hou F, Cerulli C, Wittink MN, Li J, Zhang Y: The prevalence of distress and depression among women in rural Sichuan Province, submitted), we used multistage sampling to select towns and villages for the study, assuring participant diversity in terms of socio-economic factors.
They were told initially that their opinions were being sought "for a new brand of tequila," he added, and for cooperating they would receive free rides home; selected town cars were equipped with cameras.
In each selected town, all natural villages were grouped into two classes: close, and far, depending on their distance from the town centre.
Similarly, the top two villages with the lowest rates in the selected town with low cancer rate were assigned to the control group.
