Syracuse Post-Standard (Newspaper) - February 24, 2010, Syracuse, New York PLAY TODAY N f W Y JACKPOT IS NOW MILL TODAYS WEATHER PAGE SNOW SHOWERS IN SPOTS 36 28 DOW JONES BUSINESS PAGE A10 T NATION Heart attack Lab tests indicate former Vice President Dick Cheney sustained a mild heart attack before he was admitted to George Washington University Hospital in Washington Monday with chest Cheney is expected to be discharged in a day or Bonuses Wall Street bonuses climbed 17 percent in 2009 to billion as many of the investment banks that were bailed out at taxpayer expense reported blowout The announcement by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli came on the same day that private economists reported a plunge in consumer Health care Neither Democrats nor Republicans expect President Barack televised health care summit today will break the political Toyota The automakers president told Congress recalls likely wont solve all the problems with sudden and dangerous BUSINESS No gifts Upstate Medical University tells employees not to accept freebies from medical company sales A10 CORRECTIONS Photo of Onondaga County Legislator Monica A3 To discuss a correction on a news story call INDEX Legal Local World CONTACT US Subscription questions Call 470NEWS O 2010 The O UNION COMPLAINTS GROW AS NEW PROCESS GEAR WINDS DOWN INSIDE BIG SECOND HALF PUTS ORANGE OVER 9985 A10 The syracuse Bl VOLUNTEERS KEEP LENTEN TRADITION ALIVE AT VINCENT DE FEBRUARY 2010 FINAL EDITION I 75 CENTS HEALTH BYEBYE TO SIMPLER CPR TECHNIQUE USES CHEST COMPRESSIONS AND DROPS RESCUE BREATHS By Amber Smith Health and fitness editor If you want to save the life of someone whose heart has just remember Call Push hard and fast in the center of the Its that New guidelines are expected to do away with ventilations by people who help victims of cardiac leaving only compressions for wouldbe good In the year that CPR celebrates 50 years it was 1960 when a group of resuscitation pioneers com breathing with chest 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aerials Complete coverage ARMED FORCES Navy wants to lift ban on women serving on subs The Pentagon has moved to lift a policy that pro hibits women from serving aboard Navy part of a gradual recon sideration of womens roles in the The change in policy was announced the same day that Secretary of the Army John McHugh shown with Army Chief of Staff George a former congressman representing Northern New told the Senate Armed Services Committee he supports President Barack plan to repeal the dont dont tell policy that prohibits gays from openly serving in the A9 CRIME AND SAFETY Cicero doctor accused of texting indecent files A physician who works part time as medical director for Syracuse city schools was accused Wednesday of soliciting pornographic photographs from a boy and sending him other inappropriate text authorities Richard Kulak of is charged with unlawful dissemination of inde cent material to a minor and endangering the welfare of a Kulak was placed on administrative leave by 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