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...Hall, have lead numerous online ventures in the decade since their graduation. In 2004, the trio turned their creative energy to the Internet dating market when they launched OkCupid.com. The rudimentary pairing service, says Coyne, was inspired by a classmate’s software to help seniors seeking their hook-up for the Last Chance Dance—an annual event that gives seniors a final opportunity to lock lips with that unrequited crush. The site, which counts over a half-million active users, according to Yagan, is noted for its algorithm that produces “match percentages?...
...recently played the wicked queen in Enchanted. What's more fun: playing a good guy or a bad guy? -Jim O'Kane, Blackstone, Mass.It is always more fun to be bad. All the mean things that you would love to say, you suddenly have license to do. Hook is much more interesting than Peter...
...stay in the city center, of course, New Yorkers will move - as cultural workers have done for decades, migrating from the West Village to Soho, from Soho to the East Village and from there across the river to Long Island City in Queens and to Williamsburg and Red Hook in Brooklyn. But in recent years those neighborhoods, too, have been gentrifying, pushing the cultural workforce even further afield. And that art-world diaspora causes a more subtle disruption to the fabric of the creative economy. Creative people thrive on interaction. They need to be near one another to reach...
...that while 75% of kids have their first sexual experience with a partner they're dating--a figure that may bring at least some comfort to worried parents--more than 60% will eventually have sex with someone with whom they're not in any kind of meaningful dating relationship. Hooking up--very informal sex between two people with no intent of pursuing a deeper relationship--takes this casualness even further. A 2004 study Manning worked on showed that the overwhelming majority of hookups involve alcohol use--an impairer of sexual judgment if ever there was one--and according...
...contempt for international nuclear requirements and the potential to arm itself as a significant threat to the rest of the world, I would feel a lot safer with a policy that denies Iran any nuclear capabilities. I hope the price we pay later for letting Iran off the hook will not be too high. Rick Donald, PORTLAND, MAINE...