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- "Automated external defibrillators installed in Port Authority stations". Heart Disease Weekly. 5 Jan 2003. Paid for in part by the Laurel Foundation.
- Brenckle, Lara (February 20, 2006). "Cordelia May tops givers list". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Retrieved 2008-07-15.[ permanent dead link ]
