CNN 2012-05-07

  First up, it's been called the largest collection of high-level terrorist information that US government has ever gotten hold of. US Navy Seals killed Osama Bin¹ Laden² when they raided his compound a year ago. They also took this huge collection of docunments from computers, hardwares, and storage devices that was there. Now some of those docunments have been posted on line. We don't know how much of the material is been made public by the US government, but we know what is on line offers some clues about what Bin Laden is focused on. The docunments show that he wanted to see another major attack in the Unites States. He has big ideas for his Al Qaeda terrorist organization. He was also worried that he couldn't control the Al Qaeda affiliated³ groups around the world, in fact he has hold some of those groups, not to say that they were part of Al Qaeda.

 

    Couple of healines for you now concerning the National Football League. First, more than 100 former players are sueing the NFL over the issue of concussions⁴. They are the first ones to do it. The players involved in the law suit filed las week are joining more than 1500 other players who've done the same thing. Their arguement is that the NFL heed⁵ how dangerour concussions are, they didn't take enough steps to protect players from serve head injuries. The League says players safty is a priority. League officials also say that any claim about intentionally⁶ misleading players is false.

 

    The other headline has to do with this man, former NFL Great Junior Seau. He was found dead on Wendsday. Officials said it appeared that he died after shooting himself in the chest. Seau's apparrent suicide has raised questions about the condition of his brain. Dr. Sonjay Gubta explains why.

 

    We don't know for sure if Junior Seau has what a lot of peaple are talking about, CTE, Chronic⁷ Traumatic Encephalopathy. You stop the talk-about and the only to really know for sure is to examine someone's brain after someone has died. That's going to know for sure if in fact the dementia-like symptom, the dementia-like affected⁸ at Junior Seau. XXX similarity between a player Dave Duerson, You may remember last year? Dave Duerson also shot himself in the chest. Now the Junior, and this is again unusual. In Dorson's case he left the notes, and he wanted his brain examined for evidence of CTE. That exmaination and Dorson did have Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. This dementia-like disease is characterised that people have memory problems, cognity problems and depression, anger issues, and you know we are seeing is more and more. In fact I visited a lab in Boston where they examine brains for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, and the number is quite striking. 18 out of 19 NFL players who have their brain examined there after their death showed evidence of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. 18 out of 19.  The youngest brain over all was seen in a high school football player, was 17 years old. So this process does seem to start quite early in light.

1 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。

2 laden   

adj.装满了的；充满了的；负了重担的；苦恼的

参考例句：

• He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
• Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。

3 affiliated   

adj. 附属的, 有关连的

参考例句：

• The hospital is affiliated with the local university. 这家医院附属于当地大学。
• All affiliated members can vote. 所有隶属成员都有投票权。

4 concussions   

n.震荡( concussion的名词复数 )；脑震荡；冲击；震动

参考例句：

• People who have concussions often trouble thinking or remembering. 患脑震荡的人通常存在思考和记忆障碍。 来自互联网
• Concussions also make a person feel very tired or angry. 脑震荡也会使人感觉疲倦或愤怒。 来自互联网

5 heed   

v.注意，留意；n.注意，留心

参考例句：

• You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
• For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。

6 intentionally   

ad.故意地，有意地

参考例句：

• I didn't say it intentionally. 我是无心说的。
• The local authority ruled that he had made himself intentionally homeless and was therefore not entitled to be rehoused. 当地政府裁定他是有意居无定所，因此没有资格再获得提供住房。

7 chronic   

adj.(疾病)长期未愈的，慢性的；极坏的

参考例句：

• Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
• Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。

8 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。