PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Thursday August 24, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Thursday August 24, 2006

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Cherish 'Unappreciated' Proves Anything But With #4 Billboard Album Chart Debut

Fueled by the powerhouse hit single "Do It To It," Cherish, the R&B sister act from Atlanta, has debuted at number four on the Billboard Top Two Hundred album charts. Moving more than Ninety-thousand copies in its first week, the album also lands at number three on the Billboard R-and-B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

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Dean Martin's Christmas With Dino to Spread Holiday Cheer With Brand New Duet With Martina McBride

Dean Martin's Christmas With Dino is a holiday classic, and to make this year's yuletide especially bright, the sixteen-track C-D has been expanded with a new duet with country music superstar Martina McBride. The new duet of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, California, the same studio where Martin cut his original version of the song in 1959. Christmas With Dino, to be released September twelfth by Capitol/EMI, also presents holiday classics from Martin's Capitol and Reprise catalogs and alternate studio recordings of "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" and "Winter Wonderland."

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National Survey of Teachers Reveals Students Struggle Most With Math at Back-to-School Time

A survey of middle school teachers nationwide conducted for Raytheon Company reveals that most teachers, sixty-seven percent, rank math as the single most difficult subject for students to re-engage in when returning to the classroom. In addition, most teachers, a little more than fifty percent, polled say students' math skills regress most, compared to other subjects, during summer break. That percentage is more than double the second place finisher -- language arts at twenty percent.

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Is Tiger poised to take the 2007 Grand Slam? Sportsbook.com odds makers make it a forty to one bet

After his stunning five-shot victory at the P-G-A Championship it would appear that Tiger Woods is unbeatable right now, but can he continue to dominate the field next year and win all four majors on the 2007 PGA Tour? Odds makers at Sportsbook-dot-com, are offering bettors a chance to weigh in. Odds on Woods completing the feat and winning all four Majors - The Masters, The British Open, The US Open and The PGA Championship - are currently forty to one.

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PRNewswire -- Aug. 24

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