PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Monday, September 18, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Monday, September 18, 2006

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Indie Band Replaces Beyonce at Top of Billboard Dance Chart

The sound of sputtered latte was heard from many a music industry office on Thursday when Billboard Magazine published its latest weekly charts. Expected to stay at number one atop the Billboard Dance Single Sales chart was "Deja Vu," the latest hit song from Beyonce and Jay-Z. Instead, it was bumped down to #2, with the top spot going to "Sophia," an industrial-electronic dance track by Florida band The Cruxshadows. Released on Dancing Ferret Discs, an independent Philadelphia record label, the single also debuted at #7 on Billboard's overall Single Sales chart.

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Eighty Percent of U.S. Adults Favor Allowing Importation of Prescription Drugs, According to Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Health-Care Poll

Many feel banning of drug importation is intended to protect pharmaceutical company profits

According to a recent Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Health-Care Poll, four out of five (80%) U.S. adults indicate that they favor allowing people to import prescription drugs from Canada and other countries if they are much less expensive. A vast majority (84%) of the public strongly or somewhat agrees that the law banning pharmaceutical imports is intended to protect drug companies' profits, while only thirty-six percent say this law helps protect Americans from potentially harmful drugs.

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PRNewswire -- Sept. 18

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