Newstream.com Digest: Fertility Survey Finds Astonishing Results, Curious George Turns 60, News from the Tokyo Motor Show, And Other Free Multimedia Content for Journalists
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Fertility Survey Finds Astonishing Results: Only One of 12,382 Women
Answered Correctly
The American Infertility Association (AIA) today announced results of a national fertility survey. Only one in 12,382 women was able to correctly answer questions about their reproductive lifecycle. In response, The AIA has kicked off a comprehensive educational campaign to better inform the public about fertility issues.
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Hypercom Touch Screen Platforms and epicReceipts Help Speed Recovery
of Missing Children
Hypercom Corporation and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has announced that Hypercom's ICE(TM) information and transaction platforms and epicReceipts(TM) on-receipt advertising software application will be used to enhance the efforts to locate missing children. Effective immediately, Hypercom will offer its customers and their merchants the opportunity to display images and key information about missing children on customer receipts.
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Toyota Estima Hybrid Sums Up Future of Vehicle Technology at Tokyo
Motor Show
Toyota Motor Corporation's mass-produced and marketed gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles on exhibit at the 35th Tokyo Motor Show include a new 4-wheel drive minivan and luxury sedan, to complement the popular Prius which is now available in Hong Kong (special administrative region of China), Singapore and Australia, as well as Japan, North America and Europe.
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Toyota Motor Corporation President Cho Charts Course for 21st Century
Mobility
At the 35th Tokyo Motor Show, opening this week, Toyota Motor Corporation's concept and production vehicles emphasize the environmental and information technologies that Toyota President Fujio Cho sees as driving car evolution in the 21st century.
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Convergys Reports Third Quarter & Nine Month Financial Results
Convergys Corporation , the global leader in integrated billing and customer care, announced today its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2001. During the third quarter 2001, total revenues increased 2 percent to $567.2 million compared to $553.5 million reported in the third quarter of 2000.
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Universal Studios Consumer Products Group Commemorates Curious
George's 60th Birthday
Universal Studios Consumer Products Group (USCPG) is ready to "monkey around" this year as they pay tribute to America's most beloved monkey -- Curious George -- by celebrating his 60th birthday! Video & photo now available
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Healthwise Releases 15th Edition of Healthwise(R) Handbook
The gold standard of self-care guides just got better. Not-for-profit Healthwise, Incorporated, has announced that it has published the 15th edition of the Healthwise Handbook. During its 26-year "best-seller" run, the Healthwise Handbook has been distributed to over 18 million homes, and the company estimates that people use it 100,000 times a day. The guide is valued as the best frontline health care resource by consumers, physicians, health plans, hospitals, communities, and employers, because it gives people convenient, safe, and practical guidelines on when to call a health professional and which home treatment is best.
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Warner Bros. Online, www.warnerbros.com, Launches "Chuck Jones'
Timber Wolf" on Wednesday, October 24
On October 24, Warner Bros. Online premieres the first of 13 installments of "Chuck Jones' Timber Wolf," featuring animation legend Chuck Jones' first original animated characters created for Warner Bros. in more than four decades.
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Guangdong Olympic Stadium Receives Design Award
Guangdong Olympic Stadium, the new 80,000-seat venue scheduled to host the 9th National Games of the People's Republic of China here next month, has received a design award from the Chinese government.
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Sony Presents Collaboration Solutions at Telecon Expo
Here at the TeleCon Expo, Sony Electronics Inc. (Booth No. 401) demonstrated a full lineup of conferencing and business collaboration solutions including hardware and software designed to maximize audio, video, and document exchange at both local and remote sites.
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Life Time Fitness to Open State-of-the-Art Sports & Fitness Center in
Champlin, Minnesota
As part of the Open House festivities, Life Time Fitness has teamed up with the TMX Demo Team to provide skateboarding, BMX biking and inline skating demonstrations on October 27 from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
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Kids' Car Wash Campaign, Wash America, Sprays the Nation, Raising
Tens of Thousands of Dollars for Red Cross Relief Efforts
Unable to help in traditional relief efforts for the World Trade Center and Pentagon tragedies, the Welch sisters, ages 10 to 16, launched a national car wash campaign -- Wash America: Help Wash Away the Hurt -- to give kids across the country an outlet for their sense of loss and their urge to help. Get video here.
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northAmerican(R) Logistics Appoints New President
Allied Worldwide, the largest relocation and logistics corporation in North America, is pleased to announce the appointment of Gregory S. Maiers as president of the company's northAmerican(R) Logistics Network Solutions division.
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