PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, March 28, 2008

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, March 28, 2008

Princeton Review's 'College Hopes' Survey Reports Top 10 'Dream Colleges' of Student Applicants & Parents

Some call it "the other March madness." It's nail-biting season now through April as college acceptance/rejection and financial aid letters land in family mailboxes. According to a Princeton Review survey of 8,776 college applicants and 1,612 parents of applicants (10,388 people total), the "dream college" students most wish they could attend is Harvard. Parents most wish their kids were headed to Princeton.

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Nearly One-Third of Workers Involved in April Fools' Day Pranks at the Office, Finds CareerBuilder.com Survey

Have you heard whispering around the office? Has there been a lot of giggling coming from the cube next to you? Keep your guard up ... you are just a few days away from becoming your co-worker's next April Fools' victim. Thirty-two percent of workers say they have either initiated or been on the receiving end of an April Fools' Day prank at work. This is according to CareerBuilder.com's annual April Fools' Day survey, which was completed in March 2008 and included more than 6,800 workers.

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Fixed Mortgage Rates Still Lower Than Adjustable Rates

Fixed mortgage rates inched lower over the past week, with the average conforming 30-year fixed mortgage rate now 5.95 percent. According to Bankrate.com's weekly national survey of large lenders, the average 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.49 discount and origination points.

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'Last Dance' & 'It's Raining Men' Composer Paul Jabara's Memory Lives On

"Commemorating Oscar-winning composer Paul Jabara's 60th birthday year, we launched a dedicated website (http://www.pauljabara.com/), a musical is in the works, and 'Paul Jabara's Greatest Hits (and Misses)' is available on iTunes," announced Claudette Jabara Hadad and Henry Hadad, managers of his catalog and keepers of the flame. The Oscar and Grammy-winning "Last Dance" by Donna Summer; "Its Raining Men" by the Weather Girls and re-released by Geri Halliwell; "No More Tears/Enough is Enough" the duet by Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand, "The Main Event" by Barbra Streisand; and "Two Lovers" by Julio Iglesias are just a few of the iconic hits Jabara penned. Arguably one of the world's most prolific composers, he tragically died in 1992.

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