PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Friday, November 17, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Friday, November 17, 2006

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New Survey Shows a Nation Under Stress

America is stressed. That's according to a recent survey conducted by the country's leading non-profit mental health organization-Mental Health America, formerly known as the National Mental Health Association.

According to the survey, the number one stress is finances, followed by health and employment issues. And when it comes to feeling it the most, no one feels it more than parents.

In addition to statistics, the survey revealed how Americans cope with stress. For example, eighty-two percent will simply tune it out by turning on the T-V, listening to music or reading. Seventy-one percent talk to family and friends, sixty-two percent pray or meditate and fifty-five percent exercise.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3343273

Red Cross Urges Caution Heating Homes This Winter

As temperatures start to dip across the country, the American Red Cross urges families to be cautious when using space heaters and other heating sources, and to plan ahead for the possibility of a home fire. Home heating fires increase during the late fall and winter months, and portable heating fires are more deadly than others. A recent Red Cross poll found that nearly half of American families use heating alternatives such as a space heater, fireplace or wood or coal stove to stay warm.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3343235

Movie Rental Alert: Thanksgiving Weekend Marks 30th Anniversary of Rocky

Thanksgiving weekend 2006 marks the 30th anniversary of Rocky, the 1976 Academy Award-winning film that led to a movie empire and more than four-hundred-ninety-six million dollars in U-S box office sales alone. Each day, Philadelphia locals and visitors run up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps, pump their fists in the air and sing that memorable Rocky theme song, "Gonna Fly Now," in tribute to the beloved movie hero. The long holiday weekend is the perfect time for fans of the film to get re-inspired by Philly's favorite underdog by watching one or all five of the films in the famed series.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3343410

World's Largest Rubber Band Ball to Be Unveiled by OfficeMax November 21st in Downtown Chicago Ceremony

The World's Largest Rubber Band Ball, a four-thousand-six-hundred-pound ball constructed of more than one-hundred-seventy-five-thousand rubber bands, will be unveiled by OfficeMax in a weigh-in ceremony in downtown Chicago. Guinness World Records will be present to certify that creator Steve Milton's mammoth ball -- which has a circumference of nineteen feet -- has broken the former record set by John Bain, whose ball weighed in at three-thousand-one- hundred-twenty pounds.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3343350

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PRNewswire -- Nov. 17

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