PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Wednesday May 3, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Wednesday May 3, 2006

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Comedy Central(R) to Air First-Ever Live Special Event

Roll out the red carpet ... Comedy Central is gearing up for a live mega- watt event! The all-comedy network is partnering with Jon Stewart's Busboy Productions for its first ever live on-air special event. "Comedy Love Call," a benefit for Autism education and research programs, will feature Stewart and many of comedy's leading lights at New York City's Beacon Theater. Mark your calendars; Comedy Central is going live on Sunday, October fifteenth with "Comedy Love Call." The event will feature a list of comedy and celebrity all-stars including Adam Sandler, Jack Black, Sacha Baron Cohen from "Da Ali G Show," Stephen Colbert, and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog from "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."

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Ten Murder-Suicides Occur Each Week in America New Violence Policy Center Study Reveals, Almost All Perpetrated With Guns

More than ten murder-suicides, almost all by gun, occur each week in the United States, according to "American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States," which is a new study by the Violence Policy Center. The study used a national news clipping service and Internet survey tools to collect incidents nationwide from January first, 2005, through June thirtieth, 2005, and is one of the largest and most comprehensive studies ever conducted on murder- suicide. During this six-month period, at least five hundred ninety-one Americans died in two hundred sixty-four murder-suicides, and almost all murder-suicides, ninety-two percent, involved a firearm. Using these figures, the V-P-C estimates that nearly twelve hundred Americans die each year in murder-suicides.

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How to Increase the Resale Value of Your Home

In 2005, more than sixty million homes were bought and sold in the United States. In this highly competitive housing market, people are searching for ways to make their homes stand out from the dozens of others in the same geography and price range. According to home selling experts, some quick tips for speeding up this process include burning candles during open houses, filling the home with the aroma of fresh-baked cookies and hanging a wreath on the front door.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3200405

Got Game? Survey Ranks Top Cities in America for Video Gaming

Seattle, known for coffee, grunge rock music and airplanes, now has a new crown. Microsoft Corporation and Sperling's BestPlaces today bestowed on Seattle the title of top video gaming city in the United States. Seattle edged out larger metropolitan areas such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D-C, as the center of the interactive entertainment universe for both console and Microsoft Windows-based P-C gaming in a survey analyzing select consumer behaviors in the gaming industry.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3200275

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PRNewswire -- May 3

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