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...case of either a heart attack or cardiac arrest - a heart attack can also cause cardiac arrest - EMTs' initial response is to begin cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in order to keep blood flowing. According to the 911 tapes from Jackson's case, his physician was "pumping his chest." That physician and the EMT team that brought Jackson to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center attempted to resuscitate him for more than an hour, according to a statement issued by the hospital. Typically, however, there is only a four- to six-minute window of opportunity to revive a patient in cardiac arrest...
...changes with staff.A part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, HCL administers Widener, Lamont, and Cabot Science libraries among others.Laying off employees is only the most recent budget-cutting measure implemented in Harvard's libraries. Administrators decided to convert the Quad library into student social space in order to reduce costs, and House libraries have been forced to trim employment hours and restrict student hiring to meet a mandated 25 percent House budget reduction.The library cuts as well as others in FAS come as a result of a projected $220 million annual deficit by fiscal year 2011. Recent cuts...
...that weakness are unknowable, for now. "I could give you very convincing arguments either way," an Obama Administration official told me, speaking of the prospects for negotiations with the regime. The prevailing view was that the Iranians would withdraw for a time and attempt to get their house in order. But it is also possible that the regime will move aggressively toward negotiations with the U.S., in order to convey the impression of stability and international legitimacy to its people. If that happens, the Obama Administration may be in position to gain concessions from the Iranians in the area where...
...assassination of a powerful local warlord willing to fight Mehsud is a blow to the strategy of the Pakistan security forces of turning local militia against the Taliban. It also casts fresh doubts over Pakistan's enduring habit of aligning itself with lesser-evil militants in order to tackle larger, more immediate threats. Recent history has shown not only that the policy has yielded poor results and sometimes backfired disastrously, but it's also at cross purposes with U.S. efforts in Afghanistan...
...Bigger changes are expected to come in five years, when the field is likely to be filled with new candidates and not figures from the New Order, as Suharto's regime was called. "All of the presidential candidates have been in office, so we know who they are," says Sandra Hamid, who handles governance issues at the Asia Foundation. "It is hard to know what they could tell people that will change their minds." (Watch a video about a destructive mud volcano in Indonesia...