PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Thursday, December 13, 2007

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Thursday, December 13, 2007

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94% of Parents Polled Say Today's Kids Are Spoiled, But 55% Say Their Own Kids Are Part of Problem: Cookie Magazine/AOL Survey

A new poll conducted by Cookie magazine and A-O-L Money and Finance concludes that 94 percent of parents surveyed feel American children as a whole are spoiled. A majority think their own kids are contributing to the situation.

Poll results show that nearly one in five parents gives their children weekly cash allowance without any discernable responsibility attached -- such as regular chores. 37 percent of respondents said they reward a huge accomplishment with money, while just four percent of parents polled insist that a portion of the child's allowance go to charity.

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Petfinder.com Announces Top 10 Most Popular and Most Unusual Names for 2007

Petfinder.com, the largest online database of adoptable pets, has announced the 2007 Top Ten Pet Names for cats and dogs gathered from Petfinder.com's more than eleven-thousand animal shelters and rescue group members.

Topping the charts as the number one names for our country's 260-thousand adoptable pets on Petfinder.com are Buddy for pooches and Smokey for felines, with traditional pet, and people, names following close behind.

Buddy, Max, Sadie, Jack and Daisy are the top five dog names; Smokey, Lucy, Angel, Oreo, and Midnight are the favorite five for cats.

While the most popular names for 2007 remain similar to years past, some individuals decide creativity is key when naming their animal companions. 2007's Top Ten Most Unusual Pet Names leave some things to the imagination. They include Not Pants, Zhivago, Fat Alice, Barney Google, and Cinderella Cookiedough.

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Surprise!! Orbitz Insider Index Finds July 4th Week Tops Thanksgiving as Busiest Travel Week of 2007

Orbitz has released its list of the top travel and long weekend destinations this year. The retrospective look at 2007 travel data reveals a somewhat surprising shift in holiday travel, as July fourth trumped Thanksgiving as the most traveled week of the year.

Historically, the Thanksgiving holiday is one of the busiest travel periods of the calendar year. However, the Orbitz Insider Index found that Thanksgiving was actually the fifth busiest travel week of 2007, based on Orbitz bookings, as Independence Day inspired more people to travel than any other week in 2007. The busiest travel weeks of 2007 were July fourth, Memorial Day, Christmas, the last week of March, and Thanksgiving.

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Visitors to Merriam-Webster OnLine Choose 'w00t' as 2007 WORD OF THE YEAR

Merriam-Webster OnLine, the leading source for English language reference on the Web, has revealed the results of its Word of the Year online survey for 2007. From the thousands of votes submitted, the company's online community has chosen the word "w00t" to take top honors as Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2007.

The interjection "w00t," defined by Open Dictionary users as "an expression of joy; similar in use to the word 'yay,'" first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as "l33t" ("leet," or "elite") speak -- an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers and symbols are put together to look like letters. Although the double "o" in the word is usually represented by double zeroes, the exclamation is also known to be an acronym for "we owned the other team" -- again stemming from the gaming community.

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