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...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...
...fish book (joining Mark Kurlansky's best-selling Cod, among others). Its subject, the relatively unsung American shad, is a large and feisty fish found mostly in rivers in the northeastern U.S. It is the shad's misfortune to be excessively tasty--its scientific name is Alosa sapidissima, the latter word meaning "most savory." It is also notoriously bony: a Native American legend has the shad being created from a porcupine turned inside...
McPhee may not be the consummate angler, but he has a gimlet eye for the mot juste, as when he describes the "Cretaceous" look of a backhoe. If the book occasionally strays into arcane areas of fish biology more interesting to hardened pescophiles than general readers, the latter should just pick out those portions, like the bones of the shad itself. They'll still get a well-balanced and decidedly savory meal. --By Lev Grossman
...scrimmage, Yale, who beat Harvard 7-2 in the semifinals, and the Crimson. Whether the winner will emerge too drained to challenge Trinity’s reign or battle-tested enough to compete with the Bantams remains to be seen, but Bullock, for one, subscribes to the latter...
...Initiatives office (nicknamed "strategery" after the Saturday Night Live parody of Bush's malapropisms). Bush's top aides debated whether to keep the President above the fray during the midterms--"to protect him," as Rove says--or to put his wartime popularity to political use. They decided on the latter and took their recommendation to Bush. "As far as Bush was concerned, the real risk would have been to sit on his hands when he had the opportunity to make the difference in some very close races. He and Karl were completely in synch...