Newstream.com digest: Motorola's `The Torture Chamber,' Pfizer Weighs in on Patient Drug Access Debate and more free multimedia story packages for journalists.Business & News Editors/City Desks NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 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: -------------------------------------------------- First National Collection Site for Used Wireless Phone Donations In honor of National Domestic Violence Awareness month, all 7,100 RadioShack Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : RSH (Remote SHell) A Unix command that enables a user to remotely log into a server on the network and pass commands to it. 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You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?1295 -------------------------------------------------- Pfizer Weighs in on Patient Drug Access Debate In the past few months, our society has been engaged in a great debate on patient access to innovative prescription drugs. Pfizer strongly supports expanded access Expanded access refers to the inclusion of patients in a clinical trial for a new therapeutic treatment or chemical entity, where those patients would not satisfy the enrolment criteria for the scientific study in progress. and is conducting a media briefing on medical issues by a host of experts discussing patient access to medicines, biotechnology in New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. 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You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?1287 -------------------------------------------------- Music and Mobile Phones: Hand-in-Hand for MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. European Awards An audience of over one billion people is expected for the 2000 MTV Europe Music Awards The MTV Europe Music Awards were established in 1994 by MTV Europe to celebrate the most popular music videos in Europe. Originally beginning as an alternative to the American MTV Video Music Awards, the MTV Europe Music Awards is today a popular celebration of what MTV viewers , which will be broadcast live out of Stockholm on November 16th. 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