PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Wednesday, June 7, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Wednesday, June 7, 2006

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Frommer's Awards Lakeville, Minn. Top 10 Places to Raise a Family

Frommer's has ranked Lakeville, Minnesota as one of its "best of the best" in its new 2006 travel guide called Best Places to Raise Your Family: The Top 100 Affordable Communities in the U-S, by Peter Sander and Bert Sperling. Top cities were selected based on affordability, school systems, health and safety, family activity options and population profile.

Other top ten cities named in the book include: Louisville, Colorado; Gaithersburg, Maryland; Roswell, Georgia.; Flower Mound, Texas; Fort Collins, Colorado; Cary, North Carolina; Sugar Land, Texas; Columbia, Maryland; and Noblesville, Indiana.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3230796

The Answer Is: Who's Who in America

The Answer Is: Who's Who in America.

The question? What iconic biographical reference work will be featured as a category for the first time on the June 16th broadcast of Jeopardy.

Drawing on Who's Who in America's long and fabled history (the first edition was published in 1899) Jeopardy will be featuring a series of answers and questions taken from the 107-year history of the book.

Plans are underway already for the next season of Jeopardy,, where the Who's Who theme will be expanded to include Who's Who answers/questions in a variety of fields.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3230767

Volunteers Do It Differently in Every State, Federal Study Shows; Nationally, Women with Jobs, Kids Lead the Way

A first-ever federal report released today by the Corporation for National and Community Service finds that states vary widely in how, when, and what percent of their citizens volunteer, while in every state women volunteer at a higher rate than men, and women with children and women who work have higher volunteer rates than other women. The study also found that of America's 65.5 million adult volunteers, more serve through religious organizations than any other type of organization.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3230595

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