PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday, May 15, 2008

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Thursday, May 15, 2008

Forty-Five Percent of U-S Employees Have Gained Weight at Their Current Jobs, CareerBuilder-dot-com Study Finds

Swimsuit season is right around the corner and for many people that means one thing: dieting. In an office setting, though, cutting back on calories and finding time to exercise can seem like an impassable hurdle, as a new CareerBuilder-dot-com survey reports, forty-five percent of workers have gained weight at their current jobs, similar to last year's findings. The survey was conducted this spring on almost eight-thousand workers. Twenty-six percent of employee's report they have gained more than ten pounds and twelve percent say they gained more than twenty pounds while in their present positions.

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Flavor Flav's Eternal Search for Love Finally Ends in Paris!

It's been an endless journey for your boy Flav and three seasons full of ups and downs. But finally, in the City of Lights, it's time for Flavor Flav to put it all on the line. On the series' finale of "Flavor of Love Three" premiering on Monday, May nineteenth Flav finds himself caught between an undeniable chemistry with one girl and a love connection with the other. With his promise that he'll "find love or die trying," this final episode proves to be the most dramatical elimination in "Flavor of Love" history.

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NASA Study Links Earth Impacts to Human-Caused Climate Change

A new NASA-led study shows human-caused climate change has made an impact on a wide range of Earth's natural systems, including permafrost thawing, plants blooming earlier across Europe, and lakes declining in productivity in Africa. Scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science in New York and ten other institutions have linked physical and biological impacts since 1970 with rises in temperatures during that period. The study, to be published in the journal Nature, concludes human-caused warming is resulting in a broad range of impacts across the globe.

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Hardee's to Offer Its Most Decadent Burger Yet

Flying in the face of conventional thinking yet again, today Hardee's announced that it is thumbing its nose at the current value menu movement by rolling out the ultimate premium burger, the Prime Rib Thickburger. The new Thickburger marks the chain's latest foray into its highly successful "meat-as-a-condiment" menu development strategy and is the most high-end one yet.

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