Week4-冰桶挑戰

Here’s What’s Happening With the Ice Bucket Challenge Money

• Justin Worland @justinworland

Nov. 4, 2014

The ALS Foundation is tripling the money spent on research

New research projects across the country dedicated to solving ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, have begun to receive millions of dollars in additional funding thanks to this year’s Ice Bucket Challenge. The funding marks the ALS Association’s first move toward distributing the $115 million it raised to fight the disease.

“We are tripling the amount annually that we spend on research,” said ALS Association President Barbara Newhouse. “We have a sense of urgency, but we also we recognize that we have to be good stewards of the donor dollars as we move this forward as quickly as researchers can research.”

Some of the first projects to receive funding include one trying to sequence the genes of 15,000 people with ALS, one partnering with pharmaceutical companies to advance drug treatment, and one developing gene therapy that might reduce the spread of the disease through the body. Hospitals and labs around the world that have received funding are Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, the University of California San Francisco, the New York Genome Center and others. The ALS Association has distributed more than $20 million so far and has committed to seeing any project it’s funded through to completion.

In addition to funding research, the Ice Bucket Challenge money will be used to improve treatment for people living with disease, Newhouse said.

Despite the organization’s now-deeper pockets, Newhouse insists that it will take time before the group will determine fully how to best leverage its influx in cash. Newhouse said she’s been “inundated with proposals” for research projects, and they continue to arrive in her inbox.

“It’s been amazing how many people have come out of the woodwork to say ‘I have the answer,’” she said. “We’re trying to sort through what’s fact and what’s fiction.”

And, while $100 million represents a marked increase in funding for the fight against ALS, Newhouse said it’s more of a starting point than the key to a solution.

Newhouse thinks the funding could lead to a breakthrough—”I’m always a glass half-full kind of person,” she said. “But we would be kidding ourselves if anybody believed that $100 million is going to be all that’s needed to find an effective treatment.”

http://time.com/3556217/ice-bucket-challenge-als-money/

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   WHO-not given

   WHEN-not given

   WHAT-receive millions of dollars 

   WHY-marks the ALS Association’s first move toward distributing the $115 million it raised to fight the disease.

   WHERE-not given

   HOW-funding thanks to this year’s ice bucket challenge

Keywords：

   1. distribute：分配

   2. triple：3倍的

   3. steward：管理

   4. pharmaceutical ：製藥的

   5. inundated：淹沒

   6. inbox：信箱

Week3-羅賓威廉斯尋短自殺

Robin Williams' Death: Suicide Due to Hanging

11:08 AM PST 08/12/2014 by Hilary Lewis

The four-time Oscar nominee was found dead in his Northern California home on Monday. Robin Williams committed suicide by hanging himself with a belt, Marin County police said at a Tuesday press conference.

The preliminary cause of death is suicide due to asphyxia, Lt.Keith Boyd told the media.

According to Boyd, Williams' assistant found him hanging in a bedroom, slightly suspended in a seated position, with superficial cut marks on the inside of his left wrist; rigor mortis had already set in. He was pronounced dead at 12:02 p.m. on Monday.

Williams was last seen alive by his wife at approximately 10:30p.m. on Sunday, Boyd added, before she went to bed.

Around 10:30 a.m. the next morning, Williams' wife left the house, believing Williams to still be asleep, but his assistant grew concerned around 11:45 a.m. when Williams did not respond to repeated knocks on his bedroom door, Boyd relayed. Upon gaining entrance to the bedroom, the assistant found Williams clothed, hanging against a closed closet door, with a belt secured around his neck, and the other end of the belt wedged between the door and the door frame, Boyd explained.

With respect to the cut marks on his wrist, Boyd noted that a pocket knife with dried red material that appeared consistent with dried blood on it was found near Williams' body. It's unknown if the substance is blood or if that blood belonged to Williams, Boyd pointed out.

An autopsy was conducted on Tuesday morning in Napa County. Boyd declined to reveal whether a note had been left at the scene.

Boyd did note, in recounting the 911 call received after Williams was found, that the caller sounded distraught.

Boyd also said that there's still an ongoing, active investigation into the cause and manner of Williams' death and that toxicology tests will be conducted, which could take approximately two to six weeks. A press conference will be scheduled when the investigation is completed, Boyd said.

Williams' publicist, Mara Buxbaum, told The Hollywood Reporter Monday that the actor, "has been battling severe depression of late. This is a tragic and sudden loss. The family respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very difficult time."

Boyd said Tuesday that Williams had been seeking treatment for depression.

Williams was a four-time Oscar nominee who won the best supporting actor trophy for his role in Good Will Hunting. He most recently starred in CBS' one-season comedy The Crazy Ones alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robin-williams-death-due-hanging-724959

 Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-Robin Williams

   WHEN-on Monday

   WHAT-committed suicide

   WHY-not given

   WHERE-in his Northern California home

   HOW-hanging himself with a belt

Keywords：

   1. nominee：被提名的人

   2. preliminary：初步的

   3. wrist：手腕

   4. secure：固定

   5. autopsy：驗屍

   6. distraught：憂心如焚的

    7.  asphyxia ： 窒息