PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Tuesday June 27, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Tuesday June 27, 2006

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HowStuffWorks Explains How Birds, Planes, and Now...Introducing 'How Superman Works!'

This week's release of Superman Returns will mark more than seventy years of Superman's iconic status in American popular culture. To celebrate, award- winning resource Web site HowStuffWorks-dot-com provides everyone from casual moviegoers to die-hard Superman fans an in-depth, entertaining examination of how the "Man of Steel" really works. In features such as "How Kryptonite Works," fans can understand how fantasy and reality are meshed to create the mythology surrounding Superman.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3240255

More Than One Hundred Thousand Hand-Written Letters from U.S. Kids Urge School Boards to Save or Protect Recess

Daily recess has been a topic of debate for top educators and health care officials recently, and kids' voices were heard as more than one hundred thousand hand-written letters were mailed to school boards around the country as part of a nationwide initiative led by the Parent Teacher Association and Cartoon Network, entitled Rescuing Recess. Announced in March, the multi-year program champions the importance of recess for kids and works to protect and revitalize it in schools across the country. This letter-writing campaign is the first element of Rescuing Recess, which awarded more than three hundred thousand dollars in grants at PTA's national convention in Phoenix.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3240752

Engaged Employees Help Boost the Bottom Line

Employee research and consulting firm I-S-R has announced the result of a new global employee engagement study showing a dramatic difference in bottom- line results in companies with highly engaged employees when compared to companies whose employees had low engagement scores. The study, gathered from surveys of over six hundred sixty-thousand employees from around the world, analyzed three traditional financial performance measures over a twelve-month period, including operating income, net income and earnings per share.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3240482

NASA and NSF Computers Simulate Sun's Corona

For the first time, researchers have developed a computer simulation that can accurately create a model of the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. Funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation, the computer model marks the beginning of a new era in space weather prediction. By accurately simulating the behavior of the corona, scientists hope to eventually predict when it will produce flares and coronal mass ejections, huge clouds of hot plasma ejected from the sun.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3240683

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PRNewswire -- June 27

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