This is America. Гришенкова Е.Г. - 57 стр.

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meet people. Or, they may join groups for people who like to take long walks or
watch birds.
Some public eating and drinking places help plan dates for single people. At
several such places in New York City, people can write answers to a series of
questions. Then other people read the answers. If someone likes the answers, an
employee sets up a date. This service costs a small amount of money.
A restaurant called Drip started using this system when it opened in 1996.
Since then, the Drip cafe has helped many people find someone to date. It was the
first restaurant and date-organizing place in a group called Date Cafes. Today more
Date Cafes have opened in New York and in Boston, Massachusetts.
Some companies help single people meet other people. For example, Great
Expectations has been organizing dates for about twenty-five years. It started in San
Francisco, California. The company sends millions of letters a year to people
throughout the country. The letters explain how the system works.
A company called Brief Encounters serves single people in Washington, D.C,
and Baltimore, Maryland. Its meetings provide quick introductions for ten to twelve
young and middle-aged people. At these events, people meet members of the
opposite sex for only a few minutes. A man and a woman sit at a table across from
each other. They talk for six minutes until a bell rings. Then everyone meets a new
person.
People write their reactions on paper. They note whom they like. Then they
give these notes to a Brief Encounters employee. Within twenty-four hours people
seeking dates receive the names and telephone numbers of those who also liked them.
The group Speed Dating also provides fast introductions. It is one of a number
of dating services organized by religious organizations. Jewish men and women aged
twenty-five to thirty-five meet for fewer than ten minutes. Then they meet and talk to
other people. An international Jewish education center started these groups. They
began in Los Angeles, California. The service now has spread to many American
cities and to other countries.
Some people seeking dates do not like making hurried choices. But others
praise this method. A young woman in Chicago, Illinois says it prevents spending
long hours with someone who is not very interesting.
Many American newspapers and magazines publish messages from people
seeking someone to date. The messages are called “personal want ads” or simply
“personals.” This is the usual kind of message in a personal ad: “Nice looking
woman, forty years old, thin, athletic, successful, great cook, desires long-term
relationship.”

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