PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday January 12, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday January 12, 2006

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BATMAN BEGINS, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK, KING KONG and MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA Nominated for Cinematography Award

Batman Begins, Brokeback Mountain, Good Night, and Good Luck, King Kong, and Memoirs of a Geisha are nominees in the feature film competition of the twentieth Annual American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievements Awards. The winner will be named during the A-S-C Awards gala on February 26. A-S-C Awards Committee Chairman, Russ Alsobrook says the five finalists were nominated by their peers who believe that their artful and seamless cinematography contributed to the success of these compelling movies.

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Sandra Bernhard Signs Deal With Q Television Network to Co-Host 'Queer Edge With Jack E. Jett'

Q Television Network has announced that Sandra Bernhard has inked a deal to Co-host forty episodes of "Queer Edge With Jack E. Jett" beginning January sixteenth. In addition, Bernhard is also in negotiations to develop her very own series for the network. "Queer Edge with Jack E. Jett" airs nightly. Q's Senior Vice President Alexis Fish feels Sandra Bernhard is a fearless performer and iconic voice in the gay community. It is a tremendous honor and right of passage for Q-T-N to showcase this caliber of artist and activist. For twenty-five years, Sandra Bernhard has been challenging fans and critics with her knife-edged humor, satire and emotive performances on film, television and stage.

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Majorities of U.S. Adults Do Not Believe Abstinence Programs Are Effective in Preventing or Reducing HIV/AIDS, Unwanted Pregnancies or Extra-Marital Sex

Most programs intended to prevent or reduce HIV/AIDS have focused on "safe sex" and the use of condoms, both in this country and abroad. The use of condoms and other contraceptives have also been central to many campaigns to reduce unwanted pregnancies, particularly among teenage girls. However, some conservatives and religious critics of these programs are concerned that promoting condom use encourages promiscuity. This has apparently led to an increase in programs designed to promote abstinence from sex before marriage as a safer and more moral way to prevent HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancies. The question is, do these programs work?

A new Harris Poll finds that only minorities of all U.S. adults, albeit substantial minorities, believe that these abstinence programs work well. Most adults do not believe these programs are effective in reducing extra-marital sex, HIV/AIDS or unwanted pregnancies. Interestingly, however, younger adults are much more likely to believe these programs work. A majority of adults under the age of thirty believe they are at least somewhat effective in preventing or reducing HIV/AIDS, and about half believe they are at least somewhat effective in preventing or reducing unwanted pregnancies.

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NASA's Hubble Reveals Thousands of Orion Nebula Stars

In one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look at the Orion Nebula. This turbulent star formation region is one of astronomy's most dramatic and photogenic celestial objects. Hubble Program Scientist Jennifer Wiseman explained that Orion is a bustling cauldron of activity. The new large-scale Hubble image of the region reveals a treasure house of beauty and astonishing detail for comprehensive scientific study. The crisp image is a tapestry of star formation. It varies from jets fired by stars still embedded in their dust and gas cocoons to disks of material encircling young stars that could be the building blocks of future solar systems.

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PRNewswire -- Jan. 12

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