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MIAMI - MARCH 31: Starting pitcher Johan Santana #57 of the New York Mets pitches against the Florida Marlins on Opening Day at Dolphin Stadium on March 31, 2008 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Doug Benc/Getty Images)Johan Santana was everything the Mets has hoped he would be in his debut with New York. The two-time Cy Young winner, who New York acquired in a trade with the Twins in the offseason, dominated the Florida Marlins on Monday in a 6-2 victory.


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AP - A Kentucky man wasn't around when officers seized reptiles from his home. That's because he was at a hospital having fingers amputated after a snakebite, his wife says.

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Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., campaigns at the Keystone Industrial Port Complex in Fairless Hills, Pa., Monday, March 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused rival Sen. Barack Obama and his allies of trying to stop people from voting as some of his backers have called on her to drop out of the presidential race.


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A foreign couple is reflected in a mirror next to a flag with a image of Revolutionary hero Ernesto 'Che' Guevara inside the National hotel in Havana, Monday, March 31, 2008. New President Raul Castro's government has lifted a ban on Cubans staying at hotels previously reserved for foreigners. Flag reads in Spanish 'Victories'. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Raul Castro’s government opened luxury hotels and resorts to all Cubans Monday, ending a ban despised across the island as “tourist apartheid” and taking another step toward the creation of a consumer economy in the socialist state.


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March 31: As the Democratic primary drags on, some of the almost 800 superdelegates who could decide the nomination are growing uneasy with their party, and with their role. NBC's John Yang reports.  (Nightly News)Convention fights often spell ruin for a party. The 1980 experience for Democrats — as well as a fight in 1968, and one in 1976 for Republicans — all suggest that a bruising primary carried through the summer can contribute to defeat in November.


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U.S. Army Sgt. Jacqueline McCloud, 29, left, and her husband, Sgt. Jason McCloud, 24, right, kiss in the doorway of the small cargo container they share at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 27, 2008. The two, who have two small children, are deployed together with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. The Army is allowing scores of husband-and-wife soldiers to live and sleep together in the war zone -- a move aimed at preserving marriages, boosting morale and perhaps bolstering re-enlistment rates at a time when the military is struggling to fill its ranks five years into the fighting. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - When American soldiers get off duty in Iraq, the men usually return to their quarters, the women to theirs. But Staff Sgt. Marvin Frazier gets to go back to a small trailer with two pushed-together single beds that he shares with his wife.


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Chelsea Clinton listens to a question during an event with students at North Carolina State University Monday, March 31, 2008. Chelsea Clinton was in Raleigh, NC, campaigning for her mother Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y (AP Photo/Jim Bounds)AP - Chelsea Clinton returned Monday to North Carolina, telling college students that the world will “breathe a sigh of relief” once President Bush leaves office. Clinton spoke Monday during a town hall meeting with students at North Carolina State University. She later moved on to Peace College in Raleigh to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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This undated handout photo provided by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows a reconstruction the gold and turquoise beads as a necklace. The central gold bead has a turquoise bead attached through a perforation in its center. The earliest known gold jewelry made in the Americas has been discovered in southern Peru. The gold and turquoise necklace, made nearly 4,000 years ago, was found in a burial site near Lake Titicaca, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (AP Photo/National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, Mark Aldenderfer)AP - The earliest known gold jewelry made in the Americas has been discovered in southern Peru. The gold necklace, made nearly 4,000 years ago, was found in a burial site near Lake Titicaca, researchers report in Tuesday’s issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


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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.


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LSU center Sylvia Fowles (34) blocks the shot of North Carolina forward Rashanda McCants (32) in the first half of the final of the New Orleans Regional of the NCAA women's basketball tournament in New Orleans, Monday, March 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)Fowles had 21 points, 12 rebounds and five blocked shots, lifting LSU to a 56-50 victory over top-seeded North Carolina in the New Orleans Regional finals on Monday night. The victory sent the second-seeded Lady Tigers (31-5) to their fifth Final Four in as many seasons.


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