PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for February 22, 2007

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for February 22, 2007

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'Letters from Iwo Jima,' Will Smith and Meryl Streep Should Take Home Oscars

The Harris Poll says in the race for Best Picture Oscar, there is no clear "runaway" hit according to the American public. One in five U.S. adults say "Letters from Iwo Jima" should win the Oscar for Best Picture, while 13 percent each say the Oscar should go to "The Departed" and "Little Miss Sunshine." Eight percent of adults say "The Queen" should win Best Picture and four percent say the award should go to "Babel." The largest groups, however, are the 20 percent who say none of the nominated movies should win, and the 21 percent who are not sure. Though the nominated movies may have critical acclaim, it appears that mass popular appeal has eluded them.

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Coca-Cola Will Include Caffeine Content on All Beverages in the U.S. Containing the Ingredient

Coca-Cola North America has confirmed that, as part of an industry initiative, it will continue the rollout of expanded nutrition labeling in the U.S. to include caffeine content on all of its beverages containing the ingredient.

The Company has already included caffeine labeling on its Full Throttle and Enviga packaging, and will roll out the new labels on its other brands, starting with cans of Coca-Cola Classic in May, and expanding to other brands and packages during the remainder of the year. The time at which the revised labels reach store shelves will vary by brand and by region as U.S. bottlers use up existing inventories of packaging.

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Car Shoppers Show Interest in SUVs in 2007, According to Cars.com Survey

Despite a slowdown in S-U-V sales over the past several years as a result of higher gas prices, 21 percent of consumers who plan to buy a car in 2007 intend to purchase an S-U-V or crossover vehicle. That's according to a recent Cars.com survey.

Roughly 24 percent of survey respondents said they will buy a new or used car this year, and no body style was more popular than S-U-Vs and crossovers. Next were small sedans, at more than 19 percent; large sedans, eleven percent; compact cars, eight percent; pickup trucks, seven percent; and hybrid cars, six percent. A large portion of consumers -- 28 percent -- remain undecided as to what type of car they will buy.

Fuel-efficiency was the second most important factor for shoppers when it came to choosing a car, behind price. Fuel-efficiency was followed by safety, size and body style in order of importance to consumers.

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New Report Shows Decline in Stillbirths;

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the rate of fetal deaths, also known as stillbirths, occurring at 20 weeks of gestation or more declined substantially between 1990 and 2003. Although fetal mortality rates declined among all racial and ethnic groups from 1990-2003, the fetal mortality rate for non-Hispanic black women was more than double that of non-Hispanic white women.

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