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"I think the take-home lesson here is that the details of resuscitation — the quality of manual CPR and the timing of deployment of any device — are much more important than whether the CPR is done manually or with a device," Dr. Lewis said.

"I frankly cannot understand why this school insists that it is doing nothing wrong," said the Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United. "This is pretty clear constitutional law. Public schools cannot promote specific religious ideas."

Call them green upgrades: easy ways for consumers to help the environment without changing their behavior. Such upgrades have been proliferating: Skiers, for example, can spend an extra $2 at some resorts to offset the pollution produced in a drive to the mountains; the money goes to environmental organizations. On Web sites like TerraPass.com or CoolDriver.org, drivers can total a car's pollution for a year and direct a corresponding sum to clean-energy projects.

The amateur, unlicensed dentists cast the grills using filthy tools stored in a cluttered back room amid trash and debris and even adjusted customers' teeth plates with dirty pliers before reinserting them, unwashed, into clients' mouths, authorities said.

Proponents say the law will help protect students from sex offenders and state police are confident the personal information will be secure. But critics are raising concerns about privacy rights and risks that the data could be misused or stolen.

"It is like putting a rattlesnake in a baby's crib," said Franks, 47, of Richmond. "It may not bite, but who's gonna take the chance?"

Romantic comedies might still make regular appearances onscreen -- the acerbic "The Break-Up" most recently. But turbulent romantic dramas, whether tragic or bittersweet, have become an endangered species even if they have produced some of the biggest hits of all time -- from 1970's "Love Story," in which Ali MacGraw took a turn for the worst, to 1997's "Titanic," in which Leonardo DiCaprio sacrificed himself for the woman he loved.

Each has his own strategy for negotiating this TV purgatory. Larry King, peering at a monitor off-screen as he waits to go live at Ronald Reagan's funeral, chews popcorn with open-mouthed abandon. He looks like your Great-Uncle Ira pigging out on the Early Bird Special.

His secret is that he follows the McDonald's playbook: careful choice of locations and personnel, training of personnel and indoctrination of the McDonald's credo. And he says that, frankly, he has relied on the quirkiness of his own people, the French: an overt distaste for Americana in concept, mixed with a kind of admiration for American food, films, music and television programming.

As usual, Apple hopes to shift the debate away from a battle over specs and value and toward a battle we can all understand: cool kid versus nerd. But these days, aren't nerds like John Hodgman the new cool kids? And isn't smug superiority (no matter how affable and casually dressed) a bit off-putting as a brand strategy?

With 100,000 trees on Madison terraces, 20,000 ash trees could be affected if the emerald ash borer is discovered in the city, and that doesn't include all the ashes in parks, environmental corridors, golf courses, school property or people's yards.

It is only the second time that Bush has invoked the 1906 National Antiquities Act, which gives the president authority to create national monuments to preserve the nation's ancient cultural sites and unusual geological features. The law itself turned 100 this month.

President Clinton used the act to create 19 national monuments and expand three others to set aside 5.9 million acres of land, mainly in the West, and he drew widespread criticism from conservatives.

It was chosen for this suit, Dr. Jacobson said, because it is the second-largest fast-food chain in the world, after McDonald's, and because its meals have far more trans fats than those at burger chains. A three-piece Extra Crispy combo chicken dinner, with biscuit and potato wedge, contains 15 grams of trans fats.

By contrast, federal dietary guidelines issued last year recommend that people consume less than 1 percent of their calories from trans fats, or less than two grams a day, though the Institute of Medicine, one of the National Academies, says the only safe level of trans fats is zero.

Given that mental health specialists are often the only doctors a mentally ill diabetic ever sees, some have begun to debate the customary limits of psychiatric practice, deciding to pay much more attention to physical ailments.

None of the most commonly prescribed antipsychotics is approved for use in children, although doctors can prescribe any medication that has been approved for use.

Experts said that little was known about the use of antipsychotics in minors: only a handful of small studies have been done in children and adolescents.

"We are using these medications and don't know how they work, if they work, or at what cost," said Dr. John March, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Duke University. "It amounts to a huge experiment with the lives of American kids, and what it tells us is that we've got to do something other than we're doing now" to assess the drugs' overall impact.

Their open-air laboratory allowed them to study 300 species and some 300,000 trees from seedlings less than half an inch around to the giants of the forest canopy.

"Barro Colorado was the only place to do something like this," Dr. Hubbell said, pointing to decades of base-line research and terrain protected from incursions by poachers, farmers, lumberjacks and developers.

The work is intensive, hard on the knees when surveying seedlings and requiring climbing when the circumference of a tree on buttress roots needs recording. But at the mother site, the biggest danger the researchers face is chigger bites.

"There wouldn't be a Pat's Shake in GNC stores if he couldn't promote it on-air," said Ole Anthony, the president of Trinity Foundation, a media watchdog group for religious organizations. Mr. Robertson advertised his shake on "The 700 Club," "over the donor-paid airtimes," Mr. Anthony said. "That's what was insidious."

"First off, we have a ways to go before we even think about being governor yet," Green continued. "So, I mean, we're here tonight to talk about what it is that we stand for. Our vision for this state. The clear differences between us and (Democratic Gov.) Jim Doyle. And that's what it's all about tonight, and I look forward to getting the party's nomination tomorrow."