He said CEOP's own work told them that "one in four young people have gone on to meet someone off-line who they initially met online".

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Some barges were spotted a few weeks ago working on the well but are now gone as reported on the message boards by someone who works on a nearby rig in the Gulf.

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Sure, she says, during a hurried lunch break, her parents would like her to find someone, and she has gone on a few blind dates, for their sake.

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For someone who had never gone faster than 8 knots on a sailboat, watching him and his crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round-the-World Race blaze through the Southern Ocean on the 90-foot Steinlager II was nothing short of incredible.

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