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...current case, if the high court strikes down Michigan’s policy, “it would be a serious loss for the richness of educational experiences for all students,” co-chair of the Harvard Civil Rights Project (CRP) Gary A. Orfield wrote in an e-mail...
...CRP filed an amicus brief when the case was before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In May that court upheld Michigan’s policy and dismissed the complaints of white students who brought suit after they were denied admission...
...your CRP levels are high, don't despair. They can be lowered. In fact, the lifestyle changes and medications that doctors recommend to lower cholesterol do double duty and also reduce CRP. Avoiding fatty red meat, eating more fruits and vegetables and exercising should be the first response--if making those changes is not enough, statin drugs may help...
...CRP, for C-reactive protein, is a substance manufactured by the liver in response to the immune system's alarms. It can easily be picked up in the blood and provides a convenient measure of how inflamed the heart arteries may be. Ridker's team, which pioneered the study of CRP's role in heart disease, tracked the levels of both CRP and LDL ("bad" cholesterol) in nearly 28,000 women for eight years. They found that women with high levels of CRP were twice as likely to have heart disease as those with high LDL, and that many women...
...CRP can be tricky; it can jump as much as 10-fold when a person is fighting a cold or the flu. And it shouldn't be used in place of a cholesterol test. The latter measures how much fat is lodged in the vessels of the heart; the CRP test shows how likely it is that those plaques will burst...