• They have lived there all their married life but now plan to buy a more modern house with their lottery winnings.

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  • For all their distance, Ramon and Ana Lobo keep up the mundane chit chat of married life through their regular Web cam sessions.

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  • Death and life finally unite, married in their ordinariness.

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  • His unscripted series, The Marriage Ref, will give real-life married couples a platform to hash out their domestic troubles.

    FORBES: Seinfeld: Leno Show Was "Right Show At The Wrong Time"

  • While commonalities between the 265-pound divorced former cage-fighter and the homely never-married Transcendentalist may not immediately show, their love of the natural life belies a similarity that soon becomes apparent.

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  • Women in the Northeast who married and started families later in life tended to vote Democrat while their Midwestern peers who got a head start on marriage and family building often voted Republican, Belgian demographer Ron Lesthaeghe found.

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  • There is always a huge cohort of Americans sort of naturally seeking to change or upgrade their car insurance because of changes in life circumstances such as landing a job or getting married.

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  • Here's a fun tidbit we just learned from Microsoft's Joe Belfiore: in order to focus Windows Phone 7 Series on the idea of best serving end users, the team actually created two fictional targets consumers named "Miles" and "Anna, " a pair of married 38-year old "life maximizers" who demand the most from their devices.

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  • "In Japan, women take the initiative to get married -- and the trend for them had been to focus on their career and enjoy single life, " explained Ritsuko Matsui, a prominent psychiatrist who counseled survivors of Japan's last devastating quake around Kobe in 1995, which left more than 6, 000 people dead.

    CNN: Wedding bells toll in post-quake Japan

  • As part of this change, derived entitlement to the basic state pension - where someone receives a married person's pension or a widow's or widower's pension based not on their own working life but the National Insurance record of their spouse or civil partner - will also go.

    BBC: Finance

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