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Founder Kevin Caruth started Urban Gentry last summer, and since then his clientele has included everyone from style-conscious tourists eager to sniff out the capital's hidden boutiques to Londoners keen on rediscovering their hometown. "The walks listed on our site are meant as a guideline - we'll consider all requests," says Caruth, who once set up a day-long tour for an Irish restaurateur intent on exploring London's noodle bars...
Armelle met her Prince Charming on Meetic, Europe's largest dating site, shortly after it opened for business in France in 2001. She divorced him in 2006. She and the prince - his name is Eric - are still good friends, and they're both hanging out on Meetic again (we've used their real names to protect their online identities). "I'm always looking for Prince Charming, and I've already met several," says the slight, dark-eyed, 38-year-old Parisienne, who works in production for one of the big fashion houses. "Some of them become friends, some of them...
Meetic has clearly scratched an itch. More than 30 million people now have a free personal profile on one of its sites. Since the firm hit the dating scene in 2002, it's picked up around 650,000 paying subscribers in 15 countries, and is the leading dating site in almost all of them. Last year, Meetic earned $36 million before taxes on revenues of $166 million - almost exclusively from subscription fees that range from $47 to $85 a month...
...When I looked around at the other dating sites, they were all so boring and sad," says Simoncini, 45, a suave, slightly somber Frenchman. "I said, my site's going to be much more fun. People aren't going there to get married; they're going to meet someone. Everyone hopes it's The One, but if it isn't, that's maybe not so bad. Meetic is like a bar - the biggest bar in the world...
Getting out to the NEEM project site - on the northwest slice of the Greenland ice cap, some hundreds of kilometers from anything - was less fun. Our ride was a Hercules C-130 cargo plane, which also delivered provisions to the camp, as air travel is about the only way to get on and off the ice cap. It was scheduled to depart Kangerlussuaq at about 6 a.m., which required our group to be out of the hotel by 4:30 in the morning. Getting up at 3:45 a.m., I experienced something entirely new after seven years of international reporting...