PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

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California Tops Nation in Motorcycle Thefts

The National Insurance Crime Bureau has announced the top ten states for motorcycle thefts in 2005. They are California, Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Ohio, Arizona, New York, Indiana, Georgia and Pennsylvania.

Nationally, more than 70-thousand motorcycles were stolen in 2005 which is a slight decrease from the 71-thousand stolen in 2004. This represents a loss of over 434-million dollars to motorcycle owners and the insurance industry.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3257971

Few Workers Choose to Telecommute

A quarter of U-S workers could be doing their jobs from home, but the majority chooses to brave traffic, stomach high gas prices and head to the office. The National Technology Readiness Survey -- sponsored by the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business and research firm Rockbridge Associates -- finds that only two percent of workers telecommute full-time and nine percent do so part-time. Another 14 percent of workers have jobs or workplace policies conducive to telecommuting but do not. If U-S workers took greater advantage of telecommuting options the economy would gain annual savings of nearly four billion dollars in gas spent and time equal to 470-thousand jobs.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3251017

Movies Send Parents Back to School

Parents needing a refresher course on the realities of school life can study the teen films that movie lovers have chosen as their all-time favorites. Topping the list in a survey by Blockbuster Online is "The Breakfast Club." This John Hughes-directed movie, starring members of the 80s "Brat Pack," is a textbook case of the Jock, the Geek, the Recluse, the Rebel, the Prom Queen and the one thing they have in common -- teen angst. Other films topping the Blockbuster Online list -- from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Grease" to "American Pie" and "Dazed & Confused" -- vividly bring back the real-life joy and pain of high school.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3251000

Mega Marathon Runner Breaks Own World Record in New York After 41 Consecutive Days, 3,100 Miles

Wolfgang Schwerk from Solingen, Germany, who set out in New York on June eleventh to break his own world record, achieved his primary goal on July 22nd. He ran 31-hundred miles around an apartment block in a residential section of Queens, New York, in a record 41 days, eight hours, 16 minutes and 29 seconds that makes him the world's best long distance runner.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3257611

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PRNewswire -- July 25

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