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Outside the food industry, promotional tie-ins of almost any kind are deemed value-added --T-shirts, tote bags, contests, 800 numbers, Web sites, and all the other ingredients of the vast commercial agglomeration known as "marketainment."
Village contests judge competitors on their most spectacular flying skills — height, dexterity, and the humming sound produced by the wind through the kite-head.
Reader and viewer surveys continue to prosper, however, in magazine contests, on TV shows like CNN's TalkBack Live , and on Web sites.
Similarly, the Publisher's Clearing House, I remember reading, makes its contests difficult to enter ("Go find the red stamp and put it on the entry form.
My trips often become contests between myself and my guidebooks: Can I do them one better, finding more inside information, local color, novel tastes, and great prices than the experts?