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"Speed-Dating" Put To Test

Singles Meet Others, One After Another, Chatting = With Each=20 For Few, Timed Minutes

NEW YORK, May 22, 2008

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Singles during "speed-dating" event on = Early=20 Show plaza Thursday. The digital clock in the background = is timing=20 each "date." (CBS/EARLY SHOW)

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(CBS) "Speed-dating"=20 has taken off in a hurry.

It's a new way for singles to = meet=20 prospective dating partners.

At speed-dating "events," = singles=20 gather and rotate, talking with others one after another, for = several=20 minutes. They're timed as they do.

Generally, when a bell = goes=20 off, they move on to the next conversation. Then, the next, and = the next,=20 and so on. It amounts to a bunch of mini-"dates" in rapid = succession.=20

The only topics the "daters" can't talk about at most such = events=20 are where they live and their professions.

The Early = Show held a speed-dating session on its plaza Thursday = during its=20 "How To Date In 2008" series. Eleven men and 11 women were slated = to take=20 part.

It was run by a company called 8MinuteDating --=20 though each "date" was shorter than eight minutes, to enable all = the=20 singles to meet one another during the course of the show.=20

8MinuteDating organizer Dave Cervini, who's also with The New=20 York Social Network, outlined speed-dating procedures and = plusses for=20 co-anchor Julie Chen.

She approached one couple = apparently=20 hitting if off, and they agreed to go on a "real" date. =

The=20 Early Show is picking up the tab at a New York restaurant = owned by=20 its resident chef, Bobby Flay.

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