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Experts now recommend hands-only CPR (AP)

In this photo released by Jared Hjelmstad, Hjelmstad, right, of Temecula, Calif., visits with Garth Goodall at Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta, Calif. Wednesday, February 27, 2008, days after Goodall collapsed while working out at a health club. Hjelmstad used hands-only CPR to keep Goodall's blood circulating until paramedics arrived and took over. The American Heart Association on Monday, March 31, 2008,  revised its CPR guidelines and said doing hands-only CPR ? without mouth-to-mouth breathing ? works just as well as standard CPR for sudden cardiac arrest in adults. (AP Photo/ courtesy of Jared Hjelmstad)AP - You can skip the mouth-to-mouth breathing and just press on the chest to save a life. In a major change, the American Heart Association said Monday that hands-only CPR ? rapid, deep presses on the victim’s chest until help arrives ? works just as well as standard CPR for sudden cardiac arrest in adults.

Audit raps NASA for handling of survey (AP)

AP - NASA shut down a massive air-safety survey project without ever properly evaluating, explaining or publicizing its purpose and results, and thus lost a chance for valuable insight into safety issues, the space agency’s inspector general said Monday.

Plenty of severe weather (weather.com)

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Strong storms hit parts of Central US (AP)

A hole remains where the roof of a home was destroyed by heavy storms that hit home Oklahoma City, on Monday, March 31, 2008. (AP Photo/ The Oklahoman,Paul B. Southerland)AP - A strong storm system rolled across the nation’s midsection on Monday, dropping damaging tornadoes, flooding roads with heavy rains and dropping snow several days into spring.

Seal hunt protest vessel, Canadian coast guard collide at sea (AFP)

Seal hunting boats sail through the water in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence near Charlottetown, Canada. A Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker and a ship steered by animal rights activists opposed to Canada's annual seal hunt collided in the Gulf of St. Lawrence overnight, officials said Monday.(AFP/GETTY IMAGES/Joe Raedle)AFP - A Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker and a ship steered by animal rights activists opposed to Canada’s annual seal hunt collided in the Gulf of St. Lawrence overnight, officials said Monday.




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