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ByJeffMartin and Russ Bynum The Associated Press ATLANTA Travelers who were dreading long air- port security lines ahead of the Memorial Day week- end instead reported mov- ing quickly through check- points Friday after authori- ties opened extra screening lanes and used bomb-sniff- ing dogs to give some pas- sengers a break from re- moving their shoes. "Wow. I mean, wow," said Mike Saresky, who flew into Chicago from Philadelphia, where he breezed through airport security in 12 min- utes and got to leave his shoes on. "I thought it was going to be a lot worse." The extra dogs were con- centrated at the nation's largest airports, but they were not used for all screen- ings, meaning that many travelers still had to observe the usual procedures. But as the busy summer travel season kicked off, the federal Transportation Se- curity Administration tried to offer travelers some relief after weeks of slow-moving lines blamed on an increase in the number of air travel- ers and a shortage of TSA security officers. A TSA spokesman said the extra dogs would re- main well beyond the hol- iday. At Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, known as the world's busiest, all 16 security lanes at the main checkpoint were open Fri- day morning as a bomb- sniffing dog and its han- dler walked among wait- ing passengers. Wait times were slashed to less than 15 minutes, compared with backups of nearly an hour in recent weeks. "All the natives were tell- ing me, 'Brace yourself,'" said Carl Pluim, who ar- rived in Atlanta to fly home to Denver. "I left myself two hours before my flight, so I think I'll be OK." When she flew barely two weeks ago, LaGretta Watkin recalled security lines that were "so chaotic" that trav- elers "could barely move." "But today it's smooth sailing and refreshing," Watkin said as she started a trip from Atlanta to Jack- sonville, Florida. "And I'm loving it." The TSA began deploy- ing extra canine teams to the busiest airports months ago. While the goal was to shorten waits at larger air- ports, the reshuffling could also result in longer lines at airports that lost dog teams. The dogs "have the abil- ity to screen large groups of passengers for explosives, making the removal of shoes and laptops and such unnecessary," TSA spokes- man Mike England said. The agency has 900 dog teams nationwide, Eng- land said. He declined to say which airports they were sent to for the holiday weekend or how long they might stay. "This is not just for Me- morial Day weekend," Eng- land said. "I wouldn't ex- pect that it would go away any time soon." MEMORIAL WEEKEND Air travelers get a break from long security lines By Lisa Cornwell The Associated Press CINCINNATI Henry Heim- lich, a 96-year-old sur- geon credited with devel- oping his namesake Heim- lich maneuver, has used the emergency technique for the first time himself to save a woman choking on food at his senior liv- ing center. Heimlich said he has demonstrated the well- known maneuver many times since he developed it in the 1970s but had never had performed it on anyone who was choking — until Monday. "The whole thing was very moving to me," he said Friday. "I never thought that I would be saving someone's life by doing the Heimlich maneuver." The retired chest surgeon was in the dining room at the Deupree House in Cin- cinnati, where he lives, when an 87-year-old woman began choking Monday night. The dining room maî- tre d', Perry Gaines, told The Cincinnati Enquirer that Heimlich dislodged a piece of hamburger from the woman's airway and she quickly recovered. 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