PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Friday, December 8, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Friday, December 8, 2006

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Larger-Than-Life M&M's World Retail Store Opens in New York's Time Square

Thursday in Times Square, M&M's World New York, a larger-than-life, "candy-coated" retail store dedicated to the colorful chocolate fun of all things M&M's, opened its doors to the public. A twenty-five-thousand square- foot, eye-popping retail chocolate experience, M&M's World New York is located in the heart of midtown Manhattan.

To celebrate M&M's arrival in Times Square, outside the store, New Yorkers donned bathing suits and immersed themselves in the iconic red, blue, green and yellow candy-coated colors to become human M&M's.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3356230

Holiday Driving Alert: Drivers Often Respond to Road Rage With More Rage

Fully one-half of drivers who are subjected to aggressive driving behavior on the road respond with aggression of their own, thus risking a more serious confrontation.

According to a recently released national survey by car insurer Response Insurance, when a driver gets the finger, is cut off or tailgated, fifty- percent of the victims respond with horn honking, yelling, cutting-off, and obscene gestures of their own.

The "Response Insurance National Driving Habits Survey" revealed that thirty-four-percent of drivers say they honk their horn at the aggressor, twenty-seven-percent yell, nineteen-percent give the finger back, seventeen- percent flash their headlights, and seven-percent mimic the initial aggressive driving behavior. Two-percent of drivers admit to trying to run the aggressor off the road.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3356124

Rod Stewart's Newest #1 Album STILL THE SAME ... GREAT ROCK CLASSICS OF OUR TIME Certified RIAA Gold

With the countdown on to the January 12th kick-off of his fifty-six city 2007 North American tour, J Records artist Rod Stewart adds a brand new gold record to his shelf, as his fourth number one career album STILL THE SAME ... GREAT ROCK CLASSICS OF OUR TIME is certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for U-S sales in excess of five-hundred-thousand units.

STILL THE SAME is a landmark album for Rod Stewart. Released October 10th, it entered the Billboard two-hundred albums chart at number one... thirty-five years to the month since he charted his first number one and first R-I-A-A gold album Every Picture Tells A Story back in nineteen-seventy-one. STILL THE SAME is Rod's thirty-fifth Billboard charting album, and his thirtieth album to be certified gold, platinum, or multi-platinum by the R-I-A-A.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid= 3356423

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PRNewswire -- Dec. 8

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