PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Tuesday, April 12, 2005

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Scholastic's 'Girls Hold Up This World' by Actress Jada Pinkett Smith Hits National Best-Seller List

Scholastic, the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, announced that Jada Pinkett Smith's first-ever children's book 'Girls Hold Up This World' will debut at number two on the New York Times children's best-seller list. The picture book, featuring empowering poems for girls written by Pinkett Smith, also includes photographs by Donyell Kennedy- McCullough. There are over eighty thousand copies of the book in print.

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PBS Programming the #1 Choice for Teachers for Third Consecutive Year, According to New Poll

Following a particularly competitive year marked by a rapidly evolving media landscape, the nation's educators have -- for the third year in a row -- chosen PBS as the top source of video in the classroom, for both off-air taping and purchasing. This puts PBS ahead of Discovery, the History Channel and Nickelodeon. PBS' lead over the other content providers remained steady this year.

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Parents Now Have a Tool to Test Their Kids for Marijuana and Cigarette Use; Simple Breath Tester Reveals Marijuana and Cigarette Use

Bedfont Scientific, a manufacturer of breath monitoring equipment based in Southern New Jersey, announced that it has developed a tool that can aid parents in testing their kids for cigarette and marijuana use called the Smokerlyzer. The test works on a simple breath sample with the results appearing instantly as the person breathes into a carbon monoxide breath tester. This technology has been in use for the last twenty years in clinical research and in quit-smoking clinics, and now more recently by professional counselors in high schools across the U.S. Bedfont brings this technology to consumers in the form of a personal breath tester for fifty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents.

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PRNewswire -- April 12

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