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...When the first studies came out, a lot of us measured CRP, then it fell out of vogue because there was nothing we could do with the result," says Dr. Douglas Weaver, president of the American College of Cardiology...
...Indeed, nearly half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol levels, a strong indicator that factors other than cholesterol and atherosclerosis - such as inflammation - are involved. "This is a new way to prevent cardiovascular events in an entirely new population that we have been missing," says Weaver...
...think it was the weekend after the campaign kind of fell apart, when John Weaver left and Terry [Nelson] left. Emotions were raw. He was obviously not happy with the way things had gone. He went up to New Hampshire to keep it moving, to give a speech. It was the famous flight where he and Jimmy [McCain, his youngest son] and I were on Southwest Airlines, carrying our own bags. Some cable [channel] got it. Jimmy was three weeks out from shipping out overseas. We get through the speech, and you have pretty much the senior class...
...gave him." It is, however, a story Salter passionately defends, endlessly firing off e-mails from his BlackBerry and penning letters to the editors of major publications. But the two men aren't always of one mind. Salter objected strongly to McCain's split from longtime adviser John Weaver last year and even told friends that he might leave the campaign. "Obviously, my first loyalty was to him," he says now of McCain...
Republicans acknowledge that the new tack does carry a risk of tarnishing the brand. McCain's former political mastermind John Weaver, for example, who helped create the straight-talk candidate eight years ago, called the new strategy "childish" and worried that it "diminishes John McCain." McCain's advisers have tried to alleviate that concern by keeping the attacks light and funny while coaching their candidate to have fun on the trail. Several days after the Paris Hilton spot, the campaign released another online video that mockingly compared Obama to Charlton Heston's Hollywood depiction of a Biblical Moses. "They will...