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...Ridker and his colleagues at Brigham and Women's had shown that healthy middle-aged men with the highest CRP levels were three times as likely to suffer a heart attack in the next six years as were those with the lowest CRP levels. Eventually, inflammation experts determined that having a CRP reading of 3.0 mg/L or higher can triple your risk of heart disease. The danger seems even greater in women than in men. By contrast, folks with extremely low levels of CRP, less than 0.5 mg/L, rarely have heart attacks...
...says Bird's strategy is simple: "I want to sell at the lowest price." But it is not quite so simple. As Bird moves outside China, it has to develop local know-how in each new foreign market. And Bird managers acknowledge that they're just starting to overcome the mainland's reputation for shoddy goods and build an international brand. Still, Xu says, "what Chinese manufacturers can do, foreign companies can't do"--and that's make cell phones that are both chic and unbeatably cheap. The phone wars have only just begun. --By Michael Schuman. With reporting...
ECAC playoffs give the top four finishers a bye, and have teams Nos. 5-8 host teams 9-12. The teams are re-seeded after the opening round, with the top finisher—in this case Brown—hosting the lowest remaining team...
...Working Poor: Invisible in America (Knopf; 319 pages) is to produce a picture of all of those dominoes at once, the multitude of obstacles that keep the working poor on the edge--and sometimes beyond the edge--of household-finance disaster. As the gap between the highest-and lowest-paid workers steadily worsens, he writes, "low wage employees have been testing the American doctrine that hard work cures poverty...
BOSTON—There was nothing dramatic about Harvard’s loss in last night’s Beanpot consolation game. It wasn’t the lowest of the low, like last Monday’s semifinal clunker against Boston College. Nor was it the highest of the high, like Friday’s five-goal third period that capped an improbable comeback at Yale...