BUSINESS
September 16, 2006 | From Bloomberg News
Hyundai Motor Co. on Friday named Jae Il Kim to a new post overseeing all sales, production and finance units in North America, after shaking up its U.S. management this year. Kim, 57, becomes group executive president for Hyundai Motor America and will be based in Fountain Valley, home to the U.S. sales unit, the South Korean automaker said. The 29-year Hyundai Motor veteran had been senior executive vice president for its international division.
REAL ESTATE
August 27, 2006 | Diane Wedner, Times Staff Writer
Unmarried women make up the second-largest group of home buyers -- when marital status is considered -- outpacing unmarried men, according to a recent study published by Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies. Unmarried women increased their home buying by 50% in the last eight years, and made up 20% of the home-buying market in the last three years. Married couples comprised 63% of the market, and unmarried men made up 17% of the buying pool.
HEALTH
August 21, 2006 | From Times wire reports
Here's some bad news for the confirmed bachelors and runaway brides of the world: They don't live as long as married people, especially if they never get married, according to new research. Many studies have found that unmarried adults tend to die earlier than those who are married, but most did not differentiate between those who were separated or divorced and those who never got hitched. In the new study, Robert Kaplan of UCLA and Richard Kronick of U.C.
TRAVEL
August 6, 2006 | Arthur Frommer, Special to The Times
THE best-matched married couple I know, other than my wife and me, are a university professor and a psychological therapist. They met at an Appalachian music camp where each had gone on vacation to pursue an interest in regional folk songs. I'm not suggesting travel as a means for meeting your future spouse. But for single people searching for an interesting way to vacation, I always suggest -- as I did in a recent column -- a tour that focuses on a special interest, theme or cause.
REAL ESTATE
December 18, 2005 | Mary Umberger, Chicago Tribune
Buy a house, get a bride. Deborah Hale is serious about that. Well, mostly serious. She listed her Denver house for sale on EBay, with a unique incentive: Buy the house for $600,000, get her as a wife. EBay, presuming that the 48-year-old jewelry designer was actually interested in a transaction that was not of a real estate nature, pulled her ad. But Hale has re-listed her house there (without the marriage angle), and also spells out her intentions on her own website, housewithbride.com.
NEWS
February 13, 2003 | Maria Elena Fernandez, Times Staff Writer
TIRED of personal ads, Internet matchmaking and speed dating? How about Sexless in the City bashes? Every three months, Sam Mistrano and his friend Vicki Curry throw a roving singles party open to anyone in Los Angeles who wants to nudge fate in the search for the One. Low-key and couple-free, Sexless in the City parties are meant for singles in their late 20s to late 30s who have not given up on romance and are willing to try untraditional methods of meeting new people.