PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, August 19, 2005

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, August 19, 2005

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CASA* 2005 Teen Survey: Number of Students Attending High and Middle Schools

Where Drugs Are Used, Kept, Sold Rises Sharply

Since 2002, the number of students who attend schools where drugs are used, kept or sold has jumped 41 percent for high school students and 47 percent for middle school students. That's according to the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse X: Teens and Parents.

This tenth annual back-to-school survey conducted by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University finds that 62 percent of high school students and 28 percent of middle school students attend drug infected schools, up from 44 percent of high school students and 19 percent of middle school students in 2002.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3016058

Wal-Mart Increasing Resources to Help Find Missing Children

Wal-Mart has announced it will donate 200-thousand dollars to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and host a national child identification day as the company enhances its commitment to a program that has already united 134 missing children with their families.

Since 1996, Wal-Mart and the Center for Missing & Exploited Children have partnered together in programs such as the Missing Children's Network bulletin boards in all

37-hundred Wal-Mart stores, SAM'S Clubs and distribution centers. The company has invested more than one million dollars in its efforts to help the group find missing children.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3015554

New Study Shows Dramatic Shift of Children to Back Seat of Vehicles Has Resulted in Significant Fatality Reductions

A new study shows that a dramatic shift in behavior by parents to place children in a back seat of vehicles, coupled with increased use of child safety seats and safety belts, resulted in an 18 percent reduction in overall fatalities among children ages 0-12. Front seat fatalities declined by 46 percent. The study of child fatality trends appears in the upcoming issue of the National Safety Council's Journal of Safety Research.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3015197

Jeopardy! Champ Ken Jennings Named Columnist for mental_floss Magazine; Trivia Genius Issues Challenge to Readers

Readers of mental_floss magazine will soon have the opportunity to personally challenge Jeopardy all-star Ken Jennings when he launches his feature column -- "Six Degrees of Ken Jennings" -- in the September/October issue.

In each issue, readers will be able to test Jennings' ability to connect any two people, places, or things in the world in six factoids or less. Be it Apple Computers to Isaac Newton, Eminem to M&Ms, or Pope Benedict the 16th to Benedict Arnold, Jennings has promised he's up to the challenge.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3015913

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PRNewswire -- Aug. 19

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