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Barry Diller's Match.com is the Internet dating world's two-ton Cupid, dominating online romance in the U.S., where two-thirds of its 1.3 million paid subscribers live. Match is all business, and that business is landing a mate. On Meetic, the cyber chestnuts are always in blossom, and love is as much a game as a goal. In 2005, a French cad named Lewis Wingrove published a blog and later a book graphically cataloguing a year's worth of Meetic conquests (52 dates, 27 of which finished "sous la couette" - under the quilt.) Meetic founder and chief executive...
...April. In fact, no filmmaker aiming for a significantly larger audience or budget can afford to ignore China, whether they're making epics or otherwise. This year's family hit CJ7, a sci-fi flick from hometown actor-director Stephen Chow, scored with expensive computer animation - and a ton of cross-border finance...
...Lower 48, saw nothing but salt water. Clark, a burly, bearded man, threw his float-equipped Cessna into a tight, 80 degrees bank, and a few moments later landed in the light chop near a sizable school of big black-and- white orcas, the clownish and sociable five-ton mammals called killer whales. Pointed black fins and huge wet backs surrounded the plane in a companionable way. A mother whale and her calf bobbed by. The pilot watched in awe with his passenger. He could count on finding mountain goats on most any flight and . perhaps a few sea otters...
...Lurid details aside, the book offers a peek at a man still grappling with his sister's dizzying fame. Ciccone calls the book a "catharsis," and given the hurt splashed across its pages, that's easy to believe. But it's hard to muster a ton of sympathy for a guy profiting handsomely from a hatchet job on his own sister - regardless of how miserably she may have treated...
...Iran's newest missile, the intermediate range Shahab 3, which can reach Israel, Turkey and U.S. military deployments in the region. "Our hands are always on the trigger and our missiles are ready for launch," Salami told the official IRNA news agency Wednesday. While it can carry a one-ton conventional warhead, the Shahab 3 is not very accurate, U.S. officials say. Marrying a nuclear warhead to it - assuming Iran is able to build one - is also a daunting technical challenge...