PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday April 6, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday April 6, 2006

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Couric Will Become Anchor and Managing Editor of The C-B-S Evening News With Katie Couric

Katie Couric, one of broadcasting's most respected and popular journalists, is joining C-B-S News. As part of the multi-year agreement, Couric will become Anchor and Managing Editor of the C-B-S Evening News with Katie Couric beginning in September. Couric also will contribute to Sixty Minutes, the most successful program in television history and its most respected news magazine, and will anchor C-B-S News primetime specials as well. With the appointment, Couric becomes the first female solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3179836

More Jobs and Higher Salaries in Store for Recent College Graduates this Year, CareerBuilder.com Survey Finds

2006 is bringing promising job prospects and salary increases for graduating college seniors, according to CareerBuilder.com's annual survey. Seventy percent of hiring managers say they plan to recruit recent college graduates this year, up from sixty-two percent in 2005. Nearly one-in-five hiring managers expect to hire more recent college graduates in 2006 compared to last year and one-in-four plan to increase starting salaries. The new survey, "College Hiring 2006," included more than one thousand hiring managers. CareerBuilder.com C-E-O Brent Rasmussen says the increased demand for educated labor is translating into a robust hiring outlook and bigger payoff for college graduates entering the job market this year

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3179521

Parentally-Challenged 'Adultescents' to Compete for Independence in the 2006 Apartments.com Room To Move Contest

Apartments.com is once again looking for the nation's most freedom-worthy "adultescent" in the third annual Apartments.com Room To Move Contest. One lucky individual between the ages of twenty-one and thirty will get a new lease on life in the form of a total prize package valued at more than twenty- one thousand dollars in cash and prizes and the chance to finally break free from living with their family. Two runner up entries will receive five hundred dollars in cash each. This year's exclusive contest sponsor, Budget Truck Rental, is contributing a moving truck rental and moving supplies to the grand prize package. Michael Ricciardelli, Apartments.com spokesperson, says last year's winner was a 22-year-old woman sharing a bunk bed with her 16-year-old sister, so the bar is set high for this year's entries.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3179488

NASA's Spitzer Finds Hints of Planet Birth Around Dead Star

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered new evidence that planets might rise up out of a dead star's ashes. Spitzer surveyed the scene around a pulsar, the remnant of an exploded star. The infrared telescope found a surrounding disk made up of debris shot out during the star's death throes. The dusty rubble in this disk might ultimately stick together to form planets. This is the first time scientists have detected planet-building materials around a star that died in a fiery blast.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3180059

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PRNewswire -- April 6

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