PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday March 17, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday March 17, 2006

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National Survey Reveals Why Drivers Don't Use Turn Signals

A new national survey reveals that fifty-seven percent of American drivers admit they don't use their turn signal when changing lanes, but what is most startling are the excuses drivers gave.

According to Response Insurance, forty-two percent of those drivers say they don't have enough time, twenty-three percent admit they are just plain "lazy," seventeen percent don't signal because when they do, they forget to turn it off, twelve percent admit they are changing lanes too frequently to bother, eleven percent say it is not important, eight percent say they don't signal because other drivers don't, and perhaps most disturbing seven percent say forgoing the signal "adds excitement to driving." The Company identified several driver-types when it comes to ignoring turn signals -- Impulsive, Lazy, Forgetful, Swervers, Ostriches, Followers, and the Dare Devils.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3164438

Parents - Spring Break Is Another Important Time to Discuss College Drinking

For many students, spring break is a carefree time away from classroom pressures. Unfortunately, for many it is also a time of excessive drinking and dealing with its aftermath -- violence, sexual aggression, and even death. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism says that as your college-age sons and daughters prepare to celebrate their spring break escape, take the opportunity to talk with them about the consequences of drinking. During these conversations, it is critical to discuss how alcohol affects the body and how long these effects can last. Alcohol acts as both a stimulant and a depressant. So while people who drink may temporarily feel elated and happy, the feeling does not last and alcohol's depressive effects take over.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3165630

NASA Satellite Glimpses Universe's First Trillionth of a Second

Scientists peering back to the oldest light in the universe have new evidence to support the concept of inflation. The concept poses the universe expanded many trillion times its size in less than a trillionth of a second at the outset of the big bang. This finding, made with NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy (AN-eye-SOT-roh-pee) Probe, is based on three years of

continuous observations of the cosmic microwave background, the afterglow light produced when the universe was less than a million years old.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3165583

As Electricity Prices Rise...Alliance to Save Energy Challenges Americans to "Change Four" for the Planet' for Earth Day 2006 This April

If you replace four seventy-five watt incandescent bulbs that burn four or more hours a day in your home with four twenty-three watt fluorescent bulbs, you will get as much light but also will save more than two thousand kilowatt- hours of electricity. You will also save one-hundred-ninety dollars over the life of the bulbs. If all of our nation's households did the same, we'd save as much energy as is consumed by some thirty-eight million cars in one year according to the Alliance to Save Energy. Alliance President Kateri Callahan called on every American household to purchase four ENERGY STAR-labeled compact fluorescent light bulbs to replace the most used light bulbs in each home. Callahan says this will benefit pocketbooks and the planet, because while the bulbs will cost a little more, they last ten times as long and will save significantly more than their price in avoided energy costs.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3165372

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PRNewswire -- March 17

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