PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Wednesday May 11, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Wednesday May 11, 2006

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Guinness World Records Announces Tom Hanks Is King of the Movies as he Gets Set to Star in His Next Potential Box Office Smash

Guinness World Records, has announced Tom Hanks' entry into the record books for: "Actor With Most Consecutive One Hundred Million Dollar Grossing Movies." The world-renowned actor was recognized for this achievement after an impressive run from 1998 to 2002, with seven films in a row reaching the milestone mark. As his latest film "The Da Vinci Code" nears release May Nineteenth, Hanks looks to chalk up another one hundred million dollar maker and start a new streak picking up from his last film, Polar Express.

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Doctors, Dentists and Nurses Most Trusted Professionals to Give Advice, According to Harris Poll of U.S. Adults

Different professions vary greatly in how much they are trusted to give their clients or patients good advice. According to a recent Harris Poll measuring U-S adults' trust in eleven different professions to give advice that is best for them, the professionals trusted completely by the greatest number of adults are doctors at fifty percent, dentists at forty-seven, and nurses at forty-six percent. At the other end of the list, those with the fewest adults saying they trust them completely are stockbrokers at six percent, real estate agents at seven and insurance agents at nine percent.

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National River Cleanup Week Kicks off This Weekend

A record number of volunteers are expected to participate in National River Cleanup Week scheduled for May thirteenth through the twenty-first. Four hundred cleanups are already registered for the 2006 event with an expected sixty thousand volunteer participants. According to David Brown, chairman of National River Cleanup Week, the public's increased awareness of trash accumulating in our rivers and streams has resulted in more volunteer participants in 2006 than any previous year.

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First Homeland Security Majors Set to Graduate

Virginia Commonwealth University this month will award diplomas to the first group of students to complete the only bachelor's degree program in homeland security and emergency preparedness at a major research university in the United States. V-C-U associate professor William Newmann says the grads are pioneers who will get noticed and have a degree that no one else does.

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PRNewswire -- May 11

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