PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Friday, August 24, 2007

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Friday, August 24, 2007

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Genesis Gears Up For 'Turn It On Again' Tour First N. American Tour in 15 Years with Rehearsals in Toronto

Genesis is gearing up to take North America by storm for the first time in 15 years. After playing to almost one-point-five million fans and selling out some of the world's largest venues on the critically acclaimed leg of their European 'Turn It On Again' Tour, the band will begin rehearsals in Toronto in preparation for their kick off at B-M-O Field in Toronto, on September seventh. Genesis will go down in history as the first band to ever play in the new stadium. The tour will hit 20 different cities across North America playing a series of arenas and stadiums.

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NASA and Internet Archive Team to Digitize Space Imagery

NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco are partnering to scan, archive and manage the agency's vast collection of photographs, historic film and video. The imagery will be available through the Internet and free to the public, historians, scholars, students and researchers.

Currently, NASA has more than 20 major imagery collections online. With this partnership, those collections will be made available through a single, searchable "one-stop-shop" archive of NASA imagery.

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Tone Deafness Explained, from the Harvard Health Letter

Do people cringe when you sing? You've got company. But researchers have found that only one in 20 people truly has amusia, the technical term for tone deafness. Tests have shown that some people with bad singing voices hear music just fine. Amusics are a smaller group with a perceptual problem: They can't pick out differences in pitch or follow the simplest tunes, reports the September 2007 issue of the Harvard Health Letter.

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Branch, ATM or Online?

Although branch banking still ranks first overall among consumer's usage, younger customers are continuing to choose the anonymity of their laptops over the human contact of a teller, according to a survey released by the American Bankers Association.

When consumers were asked what banking method they use most often, respondents said: Branches -- 36 percent; online -- 23 percent; A-T-M -- 21 percent; telephone -- five percent; and mail -- eight percent.

Generational differences had a strong influence on how respondents answered. For example, banking at a local branch was the clear favorite of nearly half of those over the age of 55, but only 25 percent of those under 34 said they use branches most often. In fact, younger customers ranked branches behind online banking. Older customers said the opposite with 47 percent saying branches are their preferred method of payment with A-T-Ms and online trailing far behind.

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