Dreammates: PIXELS
A DVD Recorder In Every House Matsushita, the Japanese electronics company best known in the United States for its Panasonic brand, says it expects sales of DVD recorders to surpass sales of VCRs in Japan next year. The company recently introduced five DVD recorders that record onto both DVD-RAM and DVD-R discs. The VCR can't disappear fast enough for companies like Matsushita -- basic machines have dropped below $100, but even the most streamlined DVD recorder Matsushita just...
Dreammates: Search: Ideal Partner,
Over 4,700 Singaporeans have joined an online dating website since August, placing photos and details to find a mate
'I LOVE dancing and doing weird stuff spontaneously,' she wrote in her profile on a dating website.Her partner has to be someone 'supportive, humorous, sensitive...not a MORON!' In just three months, businesswoman Sharmila Su, 24, has received 700 hits on her page of biographical data, which was placed on dating website SingaporeCupid.com.She also receives 10 e-mail messages from suitors daily. Two men have caught her eye but she is...
Bangkok Post:
`Dreammates' push for arts hub
For a long time now, Chiang Rai has been a hot spot for Thai and foreign tourists seeking to experience the natural beauty, rich culture and simple lifestyle of this northern province.But this quiet little town in the Golden Triangle will soon follow in the modernising footsteps of other tourist destinations in the Kingdom. If development is not regulated there, however, shopping malls, megastores, fast-food restaurants and convenience stores will leave their indelible mark, blotting out...
Dreammates: Love in cyberspace: You have a 1 in 8 chance that a first date will call for a second date within 24 hours
Less than a year ago, Mike moved to Anniston to start a business, leaving behind his friends and his life in Atlanta. Soon after arriving here, he suffered another casualty – his marriage. At 53, Mike, who declined to give a last name, quickly grew tired of the local bar scene and frustrated with dating women that didn't meet his expectations. So he signed up with It's Just Lunch in Birmingham, a dating service that matches "busy...
Dreammates: POLICE REPORT
BURLINGTON Disorderly conduct Two 15-year-old girls and four 16-year-old girls, all of Burlington, were given warnings April 26 after they were caught fighting at Burlington High School, 400 McCanna Parkway. One of the girls challenged another girl to another fight in the girls’ bathroom.Drugs A 16-year-old Burlington boy and 16-year-old Kansasville girl were arrested April 22 on allegations of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia as they sat in a car outside...
