PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, July 7, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, July 7, 2006

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Mouse Potatoes Get First Look at 2006 New Words

You may not be compulsive enough to be considered a bona fide mouse potato (slang for a person who spends a great deal of time using a computer), but even casual members of the online community can now grab a sneak peek at the latest crop of new words and phrases to be added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary, Eleventh Edition -- available in bookstores later this fall.

Merriam-Webster OnLine, the company's award-winning Web site, has posted a sample of the nearly one hundred neologisms that have won entry into the 2006 update of America's best-selling dictionary. Many of these new entries come from the fields of science and technology -- mouse potato is joined by ringtone (the sound made by a cell phone to signal an incoming call); spyware (software that is installed in a computer without the user's knowledge and transmits information about the user's computer activities over the Internet); and biodiesel (a fuel that is similar to diesel fuel and is derived from usually vegetable sources).

The sample list also reveals new words from pop culture (soul patch), business and industry (agritourism), and medicine (avian influenza). These newest entries join the more than ten-thousand new words and meanings introduced when the groundbreaking Eleventh Edition, the first dictionary to combine a print edition with a C-D-ROM and online access, launched in July 2003.

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Superman Returns Smashes I-MAX Box Office Records

I-MAX Corporation and Warner Brothers Pictures has announced that Superman Returns grossed one-hundred-eight-million dollars at the domestic box office in four-thousand-sixty-five locations over the extended Fourth of July weekend, and that Superman Returns: An I-MAX 3-D Experience contributed six- point-eight-three-million-dollars, representing a record seven-day per-screen average of eighty-nine-thousand-eight-hundred-four-dollars. The film shattered every opening week record for an I-MAX Hollywood simultaneous release, playing to sell-out crowds and strong audience satisfaction. The film also opened on eleven I-MAX(R) screens internationally and will launch on twenty-four more in coming weeks.

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Discovery Channel's THE FLIGHT THAT FOUGHT BACK Garners First-Ever Primetime Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Made for Television Movie

Discovery Channel garnered its first-ever Primetime Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Made For Television Movie category Thursday for its critically acclaimed retelling of the heroic efforts aboard United Airlines Flight Ninety-three in THE FLIGHT THAT FOUGHT BACK. Discovery Channel received a total of seven nominations as the Fifty-eighth Annual Primetime Emmy Award nominations were announced by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

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Fashion Rocks(TM)... Again! Conde Nast Media Group Presents Third Annual Live Concert at Radio City Music Hall

FASHION ROCKS(TM) returns for a third time with a live concert on September 7th, 2006 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. A collision of style and sound, the star-studded fashion and music spectacular will kick off Fashion Week with a nationally televised special celebrating the relationship between fashion and music to air on the C-B-S Television Network, Friday, September 8th, 2006 (9:00-11:00, ET/PT); Proceeds from the show will benefit the Elton John AIDS foundation.

Music and style icon Elton John joins the production as curator; bringing his inimitable sense of fashion and legendary musical genius to the show with unexpected artist pairings and an homage to classic songs by today's freshest talent.

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PRNewswire -- July 7

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