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Article: Ayn Rand devotees hug over 'Atlas Shrugged'.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- October 12, 2007
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Byline: Christina McCarroll Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Belleville, Mich. -- Ayn Rand might seem an unlikely matchmaker. In a 1964 Playboy interview, she famously said that a man who places friends and family above "productive work" is immoral, an "emotional parasite."
Yet as "Atlas Shrugged" turns 50 this week, Rand's iconic intellect presides over The Atlasphere (www.theatlasphere.com) - a dating, networking, and news website that has connected her admirers since 2003.
In many ways, of course, it's no different from the mix of pragmatism and love that tugs members of any group - Christians, Jews, ardent vegans, or ...