PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday, June 16, 2005

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday, June 16, 2005

Reader's Digest Ranks America's Cleanest Big Cities

After a rigorous review of environmental data, Reader's Digest issues its first ranking of America's Cleanest Cities in the July issue, on newsstands June 21. Based on five measures of cleanliness -- air pollution, water pollution, toxic emissions, hazardous waste and the number of sanitation workers per capita -- the 50 most populous Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the country were scored.

According to Reader's Digest, the five cleanest cities are: Portland, Oregon; San Jose, California; Buffalo, New York; Columbus, Ohio; and San Francisco, California. The complete list of America's Cleanest Cities is available at www.rd.com.

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A Heavily Studded Rhinestone Jacket Of Michael Jackson's, The Largest John Lennon Autograph on Record, Kiss Stage Costumes, a Buddy Holly Signed Yearbook and Springsteen Handwritten Lyrics are Among The 800 Items Being Auctioned at Itsonlyrocknroll.com Summer 2005 Auction

ItsOnlyRocknRoll.com is auctioning more than 800 lots of Beatles, rock and roll, music and entertainment memorabilia. The auction ends on June 28th.

The rock and roll event will feature one of the most amazing Bruce Springsteen collections ever assembled boasting items from all seven of his bands dating back to his earliest days of performing. Included are handwritten lyrics and set lists, contracts, rare handbills, posters and even a signed high school yearbook, plus the guitar that is featured in the 'Tunnel of Love" program book.

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Old Spice Names Phoenix the Sweatiest City in America

In anticipation of the first day of summer on Tuesday, June 21, Old Spice has announced its Fourth Annual Top-100 Sweatiest Cities List -- a ranking of the nation's heaviest sweaters during the summer months. For the second time in four years, the Number one perspiration producer is Phoenix, taking the title from last year's top-ranking city of El Paso, Texas. The top honor also went to the famed desert city back in 2003.

Cities in Texas and Florida continued to dominate the top-ten while, for the first time, a city in Nevada cracked the top-five with Las Vegas ranking number two. The least sweatiest cities include Green Bay, Wisconsin, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and San Francisco.

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TV Land Landmarks Immortalizes Samantha Stephens of Bewitched in Salem

T-V Land and the city of Salem, Massachusetts have honored one of television's most enduring shows, Bewitched, with a nine-foot bronze sculpture of "Samantha Stephens" -- as portrayed by Elizabeth Montgomery. Bill Asher, the series' executive producer and director who was also married to the late actress -- was joined by cast members Bernard Fox, ("Dr. Bombay"), Erin Murphy ("Tabitha Stephens") and Kasey Rogers ("Louise Tate"), as well as Salem's Mayor Stanley Usovicz, and Larry Jones, President of T-V Land and Nick at Nite, at the unveiling.

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PRNewswire -- June 16

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