PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Friday, January 11, 2008

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Friday, January 11, 2008

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Consumer Reports Investigation: Still Major Security Lapses in Air Travel Six Years After 9/11

Six years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the Transportation Security Administration has major security lapses even in some areas that the agency has supposedly met its goals, according to a Consumer Reports investigation.

The T-S-A was created in November, 2001 to secure all modes of transportation including at the nation's 400 commercial airports and all airlines. According to the report, which appears in the February issue of Consumer Reports, the agency still falls short in seven out of 24, or almost one-third of critical performance benchmarks set for itself.

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One-Third of Young Women Have Bachelor's Degrees

About 33 percent of young women 25 to 29 had a bachelor's degree or more education in 2007, compared with 26 percent of their male counterparts, according to tabulations released by the U-S Census Bureau.

The series of tables, Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007, showed that among adults 25 and older, men remain slightly more likely than women to hold at least a bachelor's degree. However, as the percentage for women rose between 2006 and 2007, it remained statistically unchanged for men.

The tables also showed that more education continues to pay off in a big way: Adults with advanced degrees earn four times more than those with less than a high school diploma. Workers 18 and older with a master's, professional or doctoral degree earned an average of 82-thousand dollars in 2006, while those with less than a high school diploma earned 20-thousand dollars.

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NASA Spacecraft to Make Historic Flyby of Mercury

On Monday, January 14th, a pioneering NASA spacecraft will be the first to visit Mercury in almost 33 years when it soars over the planet to explore and snap close-up images of never-before-seen terrain. These findings could open new theories and answer old questions in the study of the solar system.

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Naked News Franchises Foreign Language Versions Worldwide

Naked News says it is expanding on the global stage as a multilingual organization. The saucy program that took the world by storm in 1999 will now also be produced in Spanish, Italian and Korean for Internet, Television and Mobile distribution. These franchise agreements with multiple parties are in addition to the Japanese version which debuted earlier.

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John Schneider to Auction Off the 'Most Famous Car on the Planet' ... Going ... Going ... Going ... Gone!!!

John Schneider, the original "Bo Duke," will auction off his General Lee, the popular muscle car from "The Dukes of Hazard" movies and T-V show, at the Barrett-Jackson Auction Company's 37th Annual Collector Car Event, from January 12th through the 20th, in Scottsdale, Arizona. At the auction Schneider's 1969 Dodge Charger Coupe, along with other cars from the stars, will be sold at no reserve.

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