Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are a major contributor to climate change, and now a new study has confirmed that atmospheric CO2 is also affecting the ocean chemistry, potentially threatening marine life. Montana State University scientist Robert Dore has been taking samples of water in the Pacific Ocean for almost two decades.

contributor： 捐助人，撰稿者

atmospheric：大气的，大气层的

measurement：测量，衡量

progressive：进步的，有进展的

invasion：侵犯，侵入

Scientists expected that as atmospheric CO2 increased, more and more of the carbon dioxide would be absorbed into the ocean, affecting the chemical balance of the seawater, with a potentially harmful impact on shellfish and coral in particular.

Friday's front page looks at propofol. That’s the drug that law enforcement officials say Michael Jackson took before he died. Experts say reports of propofol abuse have been growing, particularly among medical professionals who have access to it in hospitals. One addiction treatment program in Atlanta says the number of people taking it tripled from 2006 to 2008. They now make up 8% of the program. Digging out of debt is getting harder for the unemployed. One reason, more companies are using credit checks to screen job prospects. Job counselors worry that shunning applicants with poor credit will trap people in a financial death spiral: the worse their debts, the harder it is to get a job to pay them off.

law enforcement： the job of making sure that the law is obeyed(执法)
e.g. law enforcement agencies

screen: to find out information about people in order to decide whether you can trust them
e.g. Police are very careful when screening politicians' bodyguards.
Applicants are screened for security.

Prospect：a person, job, plan etc that has a good chance of success in the future

Shun：to deliberately avoid someone or something
a shy woman who shunned publicity
Victims of the disease found themselves shunned by society

Death spiral 死亡螺旋，固定轴环绕（就是死循环的意思吧）

China’s booming economy is drawing recent American college graduates even if they don't speak much Chinese. With unemployment near in double digits in this country, they see a chance to bypass typical first jobs. They also like it that the cost of living is cheaper.

Pop star Paula Abdul is quitting American Idol. She had been lobbying for a big raise from the most watched program on television. Someone close to the negotiation says the producers offered her a 30% salary increase and a multiyear deal with more than 10 million dollars. Host Ryan Seacrest has just signed a three-year contract with 45 million.

Bypass： to avoid obeying a rule, system, or someone in an official position
e.g. Francis bypassed his manager and wrote straight to the director.

Lobby 游说
lobby for/against
e.g. The group is lobbying for a reduction in defense spending.

Also on the front page, after early pledges by President Obama that he would moderate the Bush administration’s tough immigration policies, a recent blitz of measures has antagonized immigrant groups and many of Mr. Obama's Hispanic supporters.

And the biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections. And some of its physicists are starting to desert the project at least temporarily. After 15 years and nine billion dollars, the giant particle accelerator outside Geneva has yet to collide any particles at all.

Pledge 作名词，保证、誓言

to collide 碰撞

blitz 闪电战

physicist 物理学家

Blitz：a big effort to make people notice something or buy something
e.g. a media/marketing/advertising etc blitz
The campaign was launched with a nationwide publicity blitz.
We decided to have a blitz on the kitchen (= to clean the kitchen thoroughly).

Antagonize 使对抗; 对...起反作用; 使敌对; 中和
e.g. Do not antagonize your customers.

Riddled: 布满的;充斥的,泛滥的
e.g. riddled with sth.: very full of something bad or unpleasant
The whole house was riddled with damp.
By this time her body was riddled with cancer.
riddled with holes: full of small holes
The wall of the fort was riddled with bullet holes.

Particle accelerator 粒子加速器（谁能告诉我这个机器到底干哈的）

A possible explanation for that wrong-way crash in Westchester County last week. Officials say the woman at the wheel was drunk and had marijuana in her system. Diane Schuler’s blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit and authorities say she'd smoked marijuana less than an hour before the crash. With five children aboard, she drove her minivan the wrong way for more than two miles before crashing into an SUV.

Newly released court documents showed that ghost writers paid by a pharmaceutical company had a hand in 20 scientific papers backing hormone replacement therapy for women. That benefited the pharmaceutical giant Wyeth. It paid the ghost writers. It also markets two hormone replacement drugs. A later federal study said the benefits have been overstated and that hormone therapy poses significant risks.

At the wheel 在驾驶; 控制; 掌管
If I fall asleep at the wheel wake me up.
With her at the wheel, the company began to prosper.

Marijuana 大麻

minivan 小型货车

SUV：Sports Utility Vehicle 运动型多功能汽车

Court document 诉论记录,法院公文,法院文书

Ghost writer 为人代写的作者

Pharmaceutical 制药的

hormone：激素

therapy：疗法

overstated：夸大的

have a hand in
参与或介入...;对...有一定责

搭配：pose + risk
e.g.
Pollutants in the river pose a real risk to the fish.

40 years after President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer, death rates have barely changed. One reason is that is so hard to get cancer patients to take part in clinical trials of experimental drugs. More than one trial in five sponsored by the National Cancer Institute failed to enroll a single subject. And Michael Kimmelman writes that spending an idle morning watching people look at art is hardly a scientific experiment. But it rekindles a perennial question: What exactly are we looking for when we roam as tourists around museums?

roam:漫步

rekindle:使再燃

perennial:长期的，持久的

sponsor:赞助，发起

enroll:报名

trial:试验

At 95 years young Frank Levine is still finding his stride. "I run 2 miles every other day. " The Norristown resident is fit for any age, not to mention competitive and always training paid off at the U. S. A Track Master's Champignship this month. "No one else is running so but myself but the rule yieling. I didn't merely hear them. I wasn't listen to them. I was speaking to myself, hey go, go, for a goal!" Go! Frank did. In 15 minutes and 10 seconds he set the new world record for 95 to 99 year olds in the 5000-meter. "I was spectacular inside feeling out this. I was really flying. " "This one is 1933. " Medals paint the walls of this New York native's home. "This is 1979, New York City, America. " Frank has run 18 marathons, the first at the age 65. "It isn't impressive!? but if you do it, once you run two or three, you know you can do it. " The 1935 Golden Glove title holder always seem to know: he could do it. "The easiest person to follow in the world tensely is yourself, because he taught himself and did anything. " And Frank does. He still got that fierce fight. Look on his face says it all: I'm not given up anytime soon. "It's a challenge. "

Customize 订做
Advocate 作名词，提倡者、拥护者
Intervention 插入 介入 调停 斡旋 干预
Columnist 专栏作家
Look in on sb. 短暂拜访某人，顺便看望
Abandoned 被遗弃的
Demolition 拆除

Cookies are getting more sophisticated. We are talking about the cookies that websites leave behind when you close the browser on your computer. Those cookies now contain a lot of personal information like your age and your credit score. That information can be used to customize the advertising you see online and that has privacy advocates worried. But the computer industry says no government intervention is needed to minimize potential problems. Columnist Dan Barry looks in on a tent city that grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. About 50 people are living under an abandoned overpass. The camp has a strong sense of community, but that may not last long. State officials have been by, saying everyone has to leave soon. The overpass is scheduled for demolition.

Trustee 【美】(负债人被扣压财产的)管理人
Stop short 突然停止
Fraud 欺骗行为 骗局 诡计
Be entitled to 有……的权利、资格
Unjustified 未被证明为正当的,不正当的;无法解释的

In New York at least eight people go by the name John Doe. One is a 40-year-old software programmer. He came to the U. S. from Korea and Americanized his name when he was 11 years old. Now he says he tells people his name and they say "What’s your real name?" he shows them his ID. But even so, he gets pulled aside everytime he goes through airport security.

The trustee recovering assets for Bernard Madoff's victims is suing Madoff's wife. Trustee Irving Picard wants 44. 8 million dollars that she received from her husband's company before he confessed to authorities last year. Picard stopped short of accusing Mrs. Madoff of knowing about her husband's fraud. But he said she had no good faith basis to believe she was entitled to the money. Her lawyer called the lawsuit totally unjustified.