Cook on YouTube with BetterRecipes.com

August 19, 2008

betterrecipes.comAmerica’s Next Cooking Celebrity Online Video Contest Launched by Better Homes and Gardens Magazine’s BetterRecipes.com

New York, NY (RUSHPRNEWS) August 19, 2008 — Better Homes and Gardens magazine’s BetterRecipes.com  has launched America’s Next Cooking Celebrity online video contest. To enter, upload your online cooking videos to BetterRecipes’s YouTube channel  . Read more

Storm menaces Florida after killing at least 50

August 18, 2008

TROPICAL STORM FAYEBy Michael Haskins

KEY WEST, Florida (RUSPRNEWS)AUGUST 18, 2008- - Store owners boarded up their windows but few Florida Keys residents fled as Tropical Storm Fay churned toward the United States on Monday after killing more than 50 people in the Caribbean. Read more

Childhood Obesity Expert’s Going-Back-to-School Tips

August 18, 2008

Going back to school with FUNFITEnergize Your Kid’s School Year! Get your kids off to a healthy start! Tips and Advice from Celia Kibler, a Childhood Obesity Expert

WASHINGTON, D.C. (RUSHPRNEWS) August 18, 2008 – As a result of the growing problem with childhood obesity, parents are increasingly concerned with their kids eating and fitness’ habits during and after school hours. Read more

Tropical Storm FAY Public Advisory

August 18, 2008

KEY WEST, (RUSHPRNEWS) AUGUST 18, 2008-Hurricane hunter aircraft reports Fay is a little stronger. A tropical storm warning is in effect along the Florida east coast from Jupiter inlet southward…and along the Florida west coast from Bonita beach southward…including lake Okeechobee. A tropical
storm warning is in effect for the Florida Keys from ocean reef to Key West includes the dry Tortugas and Florida bay. Read more

Virginia Beach Firefighters Receive PETA Award for Heroic Rescue of Cats

August 18, 2008

HEROIC FIREMAN SAVE ANIMALSAnimals Trapped in House Fire Are Pulled to Safety and Revived

Virginia Beach, Va. (RUSHPRNEWS) AUGUST 18, 2008– – For rescuing two cats from a burning, smoke-filled house and reviving them using oxygen masks specially designed for animals, Virginia Beach Fire Department firefighters Israel Medina and Steve Cohen will receive PETA’s Compassionate Firefighters Award. Read more

FAY MOVING WEST-NORTHWESTWARD SOUTH OF CUBA - KEY WEST STARTS EVACUATION

August 17, 2008

Tropical Storm FayTropical Storm FAY Public Advisory from National Hurricane Center

KEY WEST,FLA (RUSHPRNEWS) AUGUST 17, 2008–FAY MOVING WEST-NORTHWESTWARD SOUTH OF CUBA…NEW WARNINGS AND WATCHES IN FLORIDA…AT 11 AM EDT…1500 UTC…THE HURRICANE WATCH ON THE WEST COAST OF FLORIDA IS EXTENDED NORTHWARD TO ANNA MARIA ISLAND. A HURRICANE
WATCH IS IN NOW EFFECT FOR THE FLORIDA KEYS FROM SOUTH OF OCEAN REEF TO KEY WEST…INCLUDING THE DRY TORTUGAS AND FLORIDA BAY…AND ALONG THE FLORIDA MAINLAND FROM CARD SOUND BRIDGE WESTWARD TO ANNA MARIA ISLAND. Read more

FDA Approves First Drug for Treatment of Chorea in Huntington’s Disease

August 16, 2008

Genetics and Physiology of Huntington's DiseaseWASHINGTON, DC (RUSHPRNEWS) AUGUST 16, 2008–The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xenazine (tetrabenazine) for the treatment of chorea in people with Huntington’s disease. Chorea is the jerky, involuntary movement that occurs in people with this disease. Read more

PETA Offers to Donate Virtual Dissection Program to Woodlawn High School After Student Cuts Up Puppy at Home

August 16, 2008

Group Urges School to Use More Sophisticated Teaching Methods

Baton Rouge, La.(RUSHPRNEWS)AUGUST 16, 2008 — After learning that a Woodlawn High School student obtained a dead puppy from the East Baton Rouge Parish Animal Control Center and dissected the animal as part of an assignment for her biology class, PETA fired off a letter to the school’s biology teacher and principal offering to fund humane dissection alternatives for the entire school.

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Another U.S. Travel Agency Joins PETA’s Travel Boycott of St. Kitts Over Cruelty at Ross University

August 15, 2008

Get Out of Town Travel Won’t Book Trips to Island Until Veterinary School Ends Lessons in Cruelty

Naples, Fla.(RUSHPRNEWS)AUGUST 15, 2008 Get Out of Town Travel signed on to PETA’s travel boycott of St. Kitts over the deliberate mutilation and killing of healthy sheep, donkeys, and goats at the island’s Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine. PETA has been urging Ross to join other veterinary schools in using only modern teaching methods that do not harm healthy animals. Read more

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