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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...might think that with keg parties and road trips and coed dorms, college dating would not require online assistance. But to a generation of people brought up surfing the Net, it seems natural that they would find dates the same way that they buy books or keep journals. Dave Kloster, one of a group of M.I.T. students who last month launched the Matchup, a Boston-based dating site, says, "The more intense the school," the more receptive students have been to his service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Campus Connection | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...creator of the World is Knut Kloster Jr., a cruise-industry veteran whose father founded what is now Norwegian Cruise Line. Kloster originally planned a ship with 286 condos and 183 hotel rooms. After scaling back, he was able to attract investors, including the Continental Casualty Co., a subsidiary of Chicago-based insurance giant CNA Financial Corp. But to persuade penta-millionaires to buy, ResidenSea assembled a cadre of credible associates, including its blue-chip investor Silversea Cruises, which will manage maritime and hotel operations. ResidenSea also marketed through sophisticated make-believe. Inside a factory near Vienna, the company built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Afloat | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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