PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, May 13, 2005

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, May 13, 2005

Almost Three-Quarters of All U.S. Adults - An Estimated 163 Million - Go Online

The numbers of adults who are online at home, in the office, at school, library or other locations continue to grow albeit at a somewhat slower rate. In the past eight months the number of online users has reached an estimated 163 million, a four percent increase. In addition, broadband use continues to grow rapidly -- over half of adults who go online use broadband at home. In research among just over two thousand U-S adults surveyed, Harris Interactive found that 74 percent of adults are now online, up from 73 percent in the summer of 2004, 66 percent in the spring of 2002, 64 percent in 2001 and 57 percent in 2000. When Harris Interactive first began to track Internet use in 1995, only nine percent of adults reported they were online.

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Avoiding the Baby-Boom Bust; Survey Finds Majority of Businesses Concerned About Losing Employees to Retirement

As the number of workers nearing retirement grows, companies have begun bracing for their departure, according to a new survey by Robert Half International. A majority, at 55 percent, of executives polled recently said their companies are concerned about losing key staff to retirement in the next five to 10 years. An even greater percentage, 78 percent, said their firms are taking steps to compensate for the loss of baby-boom-age employees.

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60,000 Volunteers to Begin Week-long River Cleanup Effort This Weekend

National River Cleanup Week 2005 begins Saturday May 14 and lasts until May 22. Over 60-thousand volunteers from 313 groups are registered to assist in the effort which will cover approximately eight thousand miles of rivers, creeks and shorelines. N-R-C-W began the event in 1992.

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Audioslave First American Rock Band to Play Cuba

About 60-thousand rock-starved fans cheered, cried and sang along as Audioslave made history Friday, May 6th, becoming the first American rock group to play Cuba. Audioslave attracted the largest crowd to attend a concert by an American artist in the communist country's history. Fans wearing Audioslave t-shirts and those of other American rock bands were among the enormous crowd at the free outdoor concert at Havana's La Tribuna Antimperialista Jose Marti. The masses chanted the band's name as they came on stage and a mosh pit quickly formed. Thousands of fans, some waving flags, even an American one, jumped up and down in unison as the band rocked on. The nearly two-and-a-half hour concert of 26 songs was the longest of Audioslave's career. The set included several Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden songs alongside Audioslave favorites and tracks from the band's forthcoming second album, Out Of Exile, set for release on May 24, 2005.

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PRNewswire -- May 13

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