PR Newswire Broadcast Minute & Podcast for Friday, December 14, 2007

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute & Podcast for Friday, December 14, 2007

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BabyCenter's Annual Top 10 Baby Names List Reveals Sophia the New Most Popular Baby Name for Girls

BabyCenter has unveiled its annual BabyCenter Top 10 Baby Names List for 2007. Sophia jumped up six spots into the number one spot as favorite girl's name for the first time while Aiden continued to top the list as the most popular boy's name for the third year in a row.

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Italy, Eastern Europe Named Top Destinations for Packaged Travel

Americans' love affair with Italy continued unabated through 2007 despite the record-high Euro. This is according to the U-S Tour Operators Association, whose members send eleven million people yearly on vacation. For the fifth straight year Italy placed first as the most popular international destination for vacation packages and tours, according to an annual informal poll of U-S-T-O-A member companies. More than one in four responding companies cited Italy as top destination, with England coming in a distant second. Italy also placed top as the biggest destination of 2007.

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Many Parents of Obese Young Children Do Not Recognize Their Kids' Weight Problems, Says New University of Michigan Poll Conducted on KnowledgePanel(SM)

Four in ten parents of obese children ages 6 to 11 say that their kids are actually "about the right weight" and rarely report being "very concerned" about their child's heaviness. This is according to a new poll from the University of Michigan's C-S Mott Children's Hospital. The survey was conducted on KnowledgePanel, the representative nationwide panel created and maintained by Knowledge Networks. This national study on children's health found that among the parents of the 6-11 year old obese children, 13 percent rate their child as being "very overweight" and only 7 percent say they are "very concerned" about their child's weight.

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VH1's '100 Greatest Songs of the 90s' Grunges Up as Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' Takes the #1 Spot

The fans have spoken and V-H-1 is celebrating the music of the Nineties like it never has before. In an online poll, V-H-1-dot-com users have voted Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as the greatest song from the Nineties. It was the decade that brought you Madonna's "Vogue," Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" and Hanson's "MMMBop," and once again V-H-1 taps its collective memories and revisits it all. V-H-1's "One Hundred Greatest Songs Of The Nineties" premieres December seventeenth.

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