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...global headquarters of eHarmony in Pasadena, Calif., one blue wall is papered with testimonies of love: snapshots of couples who met on the Internet matchmaking site and subsequently got hitched. There are older couples, military couples, kissing couples, couples with physical disabilities, couples dressed in wedding whites. Soon, if all goes as planned, there will be Chinese couples, Indian couples, European couples, many dressed in the brilliant matrimonial hues of their cultures. They're going to need a new wall...
...matchmaking took off as an industry only in this decade, with the arrival of Internet dating sites. Suspicion and disdain eased into acceptance as more Americans found a partner--or at least a date and not a nut--on the sites. Of the 92 million unmarried Americans 18 and older counted by the Census last year, about 16 million have tried online dating, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. In 2003 online daters increased 77%. With sites charging $35 a month on average, revenues popped accordingly. Growth has ebbed of late to about 10% a year, say analysts...
Like many high-end European and American designers, Jacobs is cashing in on the growing demand for chic clothing for the stroller and grade-school sets. The concurrent trends of older moms and dads and an increase in dual-income families mean that many boomer parents are not only richer but also ready to spend lavishly on their little darlings. The same people who casually shell out $800 for a Bugaboo stroller don't flinch at a $300 Little Marc cashmere sweater. As a result, sales of infant and toddler clothing have soared. In 2006 they spiked to $33.3 billion...
...lung collapsed, several ribs broke and his hip fractured. A few years later, after developing a severe case of pneumonia, the king of chills decided to embrace warmth. "It's the law," he jokes from his part-time home on the Gulf Coast. "You get a little bit older, and you have to move to Florida." So, in one of the rare cliché moments of his life, King, 60, and his wife Tabitha flew south for the winter...
...show on ABC Family back in the 80’s, you know with the Seaver family and the cool opening sequence. No? Leonardo DiCaprio was on it for a little. Still nothing? Well, Britney Spears’ little sister is pregnant by some “older man” too, but no one has really paid much attention to that. Still on the subject of babies, Nicole Richie recently gave birth to her first bundle of joy, Harlow Winter Kate Madden. Her baby daddy, Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden is currently hard at work promoting...