PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday May 25, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday May 25, 2006

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'Looking for Stars' Winner Gets Key Role in Revolution Studios' Sci-Fi Thriller 'Next' Starring Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore

A speaking role in Revolution Studios' upcoming action adventure movie "Next," starring Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore, is the grand prize for the one talented winner of Starz' original reality micro-series "Looking for Stars." The series will follow nearly two-hundred contestants from their first auditions through the appearance of the winner on the film set. "Looking for Stars" will premiere Monday, June Nineteenth on Starz, and continue through September. The fourteen episode micro-series is the first reality show of its kind because each episode is just ten minutes long.

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Over Three-Quarters of All U.S. Adults - An Estimated One Hundred Seventy- Two Million - Go Online

According to the latest Harris Poll, the number of adults who are online at home, in the office, at school, a library or other locations continues to grow at a steady rate. In the past year, the number of online users has reached an estimated one hundred seventy-two million, a five percent increase. In research among more than two thousand U-S adults Harris Interactive found that seventy-seven percent of adults are now online, up from seventy-four percent a year ago, sixty-six percent in the spring of 2002, sixty-four percent in 2001 and fifty-seven percent in spring of 2000. When Harris Interactive first began to track Internet use in 1995, only nine percent of adults reported they went online.

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New Survey Reveals Top Summer Health Concerns for Parents of Young Teens

As schools break for summer, most teens look forward to staying up late, sleeping in, and having their first jobs, while their parents may worry about common summer health risks. In fact, a new survey supported by the National Parent Teacher Association reveals that one in four parents of young teens are extremely or very concerned about their young teen's health during the summer months. Notably, heat exhaustion is the top health concern for thirty-five percent of parents and seventy-five percent will insist that their young teens wear sunscreen to ensure their child has a safe and healthy summer. To help educate parents about how to keep their young teens happy, healthy and active over the summer, the National P-T-A has launched the campaign "Summer Break - What's at Stake?" Parents and caregivers are encouraged to visit P-T-A-dot- org to obtain useful information about summer health.

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AmericanFlags-dot-com Gives Away Free Flags in Honor of Memorial Day

AmericanFlags-dot-com has announced that it will immediately begin offering its website visitors free American Flags in honor of Memorial Day 2006. The U-S flags to be given away by AmericanFlags-dot-com measure three feet by five feet and generally retail for almost twenty dollars plus shipping and handling. Until July Fourth, up to one million customers will get these flags for free and pay only for shipping and handling.

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PRNewswire -- May 25

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