NEWSTREAM.Com Digest: Creating a Life Insurance Trust, Rheumatoid Arthritis, National Wireless Safety Week and other multimedia for journalists.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2000 There's new material available to journalists from Newstream.com. Journalists can visit http://www.newstream.com now to download FREE multimedia content (video,audio, photos, graphics, PowerPoint slide shows, spreadsheets, charts and text) for the following features: Athlete, Once Disabled by Arthritis, Takes on Triathlon triathlon, athletic event made up of three contests. Since the 1970s the term has come to mean especially a race combining swimming, bicycling, and running. A notable example is Hawaii's Ironman Triathlon, held since 1978, which features a 2. Rheumatoid Arthritis rheumatoid arthritis Chronic, progressive autoimmune disease causing connective-tissue inflammation, mostly in synovial joints. It can occur at any age, is more common in women, and has an unpredictable course. can have devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. effects on a person's ability to carry out normal daily activities. Now, one athlete is back on his feet with the help of effective treatment with disease-modifying medicine, competing in one of the most grueling competitions in modern athletics. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?786 Creating a Life Insurance Trust Remember that old saying about not being able to avoid death and taxes? Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. says with proper estate planning Estate Planning The overall planning of a person's wealth, including the preparation of a will and the planning of taxes after the individual's death. Notes: Contrary to popular belief, estate planning involves much more than preparing a will, and it is not only for the and the creation of a life insurance trust, you might at least be able to avoid the taxes. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?787 National Wireless Safety Week Kicks Off with Donations In recognition of National Wireless Safety Week, May 22 to May 28, Communities on Phone Patrol (COPP) will launch its 2000 campaign with wireless phone donation events in six communities across the country including Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . COPP has provided over 13,000 wireless phones to more than 12,000 National Neighborhood Watch groups since the program began four years ago. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?788 New Chips Bring Internet Connectivity to Household Appliances A new wave of electronics intelligence is bringing Internet connectivity to hundreds of household appliances thanks to exploding demand for Flash-memory microcontrollers. In order to stay ahead of the strong demand for Flash microcontrollers, Microchip Technology  Microchip Technology (NASDAQ: MCHP) is a manufacturer of microcontroller, memory and analog semiconductors, founded in 1989 when announced today it is quadrupling quad·ru·ple adj. 1. Consisting of four parts or members. 2. Four times as much in size, strength, number, or amount. 3. Music Having four beats to the measure. n. its Flash microcontroller A single chip that contains the processor (the CPU), non-volatile memory for the program (ROM or flash), volatile memory for input and output (RAM), a clock and an I/O control unit. portfolio. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?784 U.S. Federal Agencies Offered Free License of Adaptec Software to Help Fight Virus Trend Adaptec, the global leader in innovative storage solutions, is offering federal agencies a free one-year license for the software utility that enables users to essentially "turn back the clock" on their PCs to a time where their PC was operating prior to a system crash. GoBack is already in use on PCs at the Library of Congress and Department of Defense. Check back for video. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?785 We provide this free and unrestricted content in a format that is "web-ready" (GIFs, JPGs, Streaming Video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. 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