PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Wednesday, May 18, 2005

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Americans' Weekends Focus on Family, Food and Sex

LIFE magazine has released The Great American Weekend Study, with new information on how Americans plan, spend and want to get out of their weekends. Among the findings -- the American weekend is endangered.

Results show that over-scheduling and a longer work week has put the American weekend on the "endangered species" list.

* Over half of Americans spend more time doing things they have to
do vs. what they want to do on the weekends.
* Close to half of Americans bring work home with them.
* Over half of Americans would work ten extra hours on the other four
days of the week to get an extra day off work.
* 13 percent of Americans would move to France for a four day work week.

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LIVESTRONG Celebrates One-Year Anniversary

The Lance Armstrong Foundation has announced that more than 47 million LIVESTRONG wristbands have now been purchased since the initiative was launched one year ago. The Wear Yellow LIVESTRONG campaign, a Nike and L-A-F partnership, was launched last May in an effort to raise funds for L-A-F programs that help people with cancer live strong.

Nike created the bright yellow wristband as a tribute to Lance Armstrong and in support of people living with cancer. Nike set a goal to raise at least five million dollars for the foundation, mostly through the sale of LIVESTRONG wristbands, and donated an additional one million dollars.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=2949746

Half of America's Workers in 'Vacation Crisis'

America's workers are in the midst of a vacation crisis, much of it self-imposed. About half of the nation's full-time workers didn't use all the vacation days they earned in the past year, forfeiting an average of eight vacation days each -- nearly half of the number of days available to them.

Universal Orlando Resort's first-ever "All Work & No Play" study paints a picture of a new American divide: the difference between the "Takes" and the "Take Nots." Punch your clock in Newark, Miami, or New York? Chances are you're having a compound vacation crisis; fewer vacation days available, and even fewer taken, when compared to other parts of the country. Earn your daily bread in Sacramento, Portland, or Seattle? Welcome to the land of plenty: plenty of vacation days given by employers, and plenty taken by their workers.

All told, the American workforce sacrifices the equivalent of more than three million years of unused vacation back to the nation's employers annually.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=2950021

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PRNewswire -- May 18

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