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Matchmaking booms in economic crisis (Independent Online)
South Korean fathers are apparently rushing their children into marriage.

Beichuan couples find new love (People's Daily)
Hundreds of people from Beichuan county who lost their spouses in the May 12 earthquake have remarried, the local civil affairs bureau said on Wednesday. Bureau chief Wang Hongfa said 614 people have remarried. The county lost about 20,000 people in the quake, about 12 percent of its population. Although there are no figures available for the total number of people who lost spouses in the ...

Gears of War 2 Patched To Fix Matchmaking Issues, Problems Persist (Slashdot)
When Gears of War 2 was released, one of the biggest complaints about the game was that its matchmaking system didn't work properly for multi-player games, leading to unreasonably long wait times. After trying to placate players with mostly useless suggestions, Epic finally released a patch to address the matchmaking issues. Unfortunately, now that players have had a chance to try it out, it ...

Crisis leads to matchmaking (News 24 South Africa)
Fathers facing redundancy are rushing their children into marriage and jobless women are finding financial security in married life.

Sacramento Muslims try their hand at matchmaking (McClatchy Washington Bureau)
The meeting was well into its second hour when Tamir Sukkary let out a loud sigh, put his head in his hands and asked about chaperones.

ClerkDogs Claims to Be a Better Movie Fetcher (E-Commerce Times)
Even as technology threatens the survival of video rental stores, serial entrepreneur Stuart Skorman thinks there's still a place for the movie-matchmaking advice of veteran video store clerks. To prove his point, Skorman hired more than 20 former video store clerks to pour their collective wisdom into a new Internet search engine, ClerkDogs, that's being unleashed Tuesday.

Matchmaking booms in SKorea due to economic crisis (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Matchmaking is booming in South Korea amid the global economic crisis, as fathers facing redundancy rush their children into marriage and jobless women find financial security in married life.

Ex-video clerks drive movie matchmaker (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Even as technology threatens the survival of video rental stores, serial entrepreneur Stuart Skorman thinks there's still a place for the movie-matchmaking advice of veteran store clerks.

Sacramento Muslims try their hand at matchmaking (The Sacramento Bee)
Shemeem Khan passes out fliers at SALAM for the matrimonial service. She's looking for a devout wife for her son, a California Highway Patrol officer, and has asked friends of friends ? and even strangers at a mosque ? for help. The meeting was well into its second hour when Tamir Sukkary let out a loud sigh, put his head in his hands and asked about chaperones. Should we have them? ...