CNN 2011-03-06

Time now to travel "Cross Country" for news from our affiliates¹. A more extensive search is planned this morning in Palm Beach County, Florida, after remains² of two children were found in a canal. Police say they first recovered the body of a girl believed to be between the ages of 6 and 10. Her body was found in a duffel bag. And later they found the body of an older boy stuffed in a suitcase.

Teachers in Springfield, Massachusetts, are negotiating with the school system as to how to pay back more than $1 million they have been overpaid this year. The superintendent³ says the accounting⁴ error involves more than 1,400 teachers.

In Carlisle, Illinois, a town paying tribute to the fighting men and women who call Carlisle home. They're doing it with signs, like you see here. They also honor soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice to their country whether they're from Carlisle or not. Serena Williams hoped she well enough to get back on the tennis court this summer. Right now, she is recovering from a blood clot⁵ in her lung. This is a woman who's young and she's fit. She won Wimbledon last year.Dr. Sanjay Gupta is here.And you wonder -- she is so fit, so active. She takes care of herself. How could this happen?

You know, it's funny, when it comes to the clots⁶ in the legs that break off and go to the lungs, pulmonary embolism -- it can really happen to anybody. And that's something that people always are reminded of.Let me show you really quick what this looks like, what we're talking about. It's a clot that sort of develops in the deep veins⁸, Carol, in your legs. This is something you could feel. If you feel the clots on the surface, that's not this. This is the deep veins.Get a clot like that right around the valve of the veins, and it breaks off. And it's got a long way to travel, all the way through the vasculature of the entire body. But the point is, it eventually could end up in the lungs, block one of the blood vessels⁹ in the lungs, someone might start to have some chest pain. They might have shortness of breath. They could have rapid heartbeat.

And if the clot is big enough, I mean, this is a deadly problem. You know, within several minutes, someone could die from this.

Yes. But if it's deep in your vein⁷, I mean, is there any soreness you could feel if you touch your leg? Could you feel it?

You won't feel the actual clot but you might have soreness in the leg. Now, sometimes it can just be hard to tell, especially in someone like her because she was in a walking boot. You know, we saw that after some time and I think maybe a cast sort of thing at the upper part of her leg. You can see it there.

That's a risk factor. Immobilizing your leg like that because you're not moving it, it causes the blood to become stagnant¹⁰, more likely to clot, also a smoking medication is a risk factor as well.

And I know she was treated at the hospital and then she went to this red carpet event.

Right.

Is that something normal that someone should do?

I was a little surprised by that when I first heard that. But, you know, if it was a small clot and it could be treated, then it's not that unusual she could get out of the hospital quickly. You put someone on blood thinners, that's what you need to do because you want to break up that clot that's in the lung, so you do I.V. blood thinners usually first and then oral -- you know, by-mouth medications.It was interesting, a few days later, she had to go back into the hospital because she had a hematoma somewhere and that may have been as a result of the blood thinners because it just makes your blood thin. So, it's been a cycle of events for her.

Is this a genetic¹¹ thing?

Probably -- yes, in some cases, it could be. There are some people whose blood just clots easier. So, they're going to make blood clots more easily. But for some people, it's just those risk factors, you know, a cross-country flight she was on from L.A. to New York. Legs aren't moving. She was in a cast. Birth control pills are risk factor. Smoking is risk factor, dehydration¹². So, there are risk factors.And, again, young and old, women and men, this problem can happen.

From obscurity to a worldwide symbol of police brutality¹³. 20 years ago today, California Rodney King went from nobody to a household name. In advance for today’s anniversary, Rodney King spoke¹⁴ to CNN Stun¹⁵ Leman.

1 affiliates   

附属企业( affiliate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She affiliates with an academic society. 她是某学术团体的成员。
• For example, these security affiliates participated in the floating of 19,000,000,000 of issues in 1927. 例如，这些证券发行机构在1927年的流通证券中，就提供了一百九十亿美元的证券。

2 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

3 superintendent   

n.监督人，主管，总监；(英国)警务长

参考例句：

• He was soon promoted to the post of superintendent of Foreign Trade.他很快就被擢升为对外贸易总监。
• He decided to call the superintendent of the building.他决定给楼房管理员打电话。

4 accounting   

n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表

参考例句：

• A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
• There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。

5 clot   

n.凝块；v.使凝成块

参考例句：

• Platelets are one of the components required to make blood clot.血小板是血液凝固的必须成分之一。
• The patient's blood refused to clot.病人的血液无法凝结。

6 clots   

n.凝块( clot的名词复数 )；血块；蠢人；傻瓜v.凝固( clot的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• When you cut yourself, blood clots and forms a scab. 你割破了，血会凝固、结痂。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Milk clots when it turns sour. 奶变酸就凝块。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

7 vein   

n.血管，静脉；叶脉，纹理；情绪；vt.使成脉络

参考例句：

• The girl is not in the vein for singing today.那女孩今天没有心情唱歌。
• The doctor injects glucose into the patient's vein.医生把葡萄糖注射入病人的静脉。

8 veins   

n.纹理；矿脉( vein的名词复数 )；静脉；叶脉；纹理

参考例句：

• The blood flows from the capillaries back into the veins. 血从毛细血管流回静脉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I felt a pleasant glow in all my veins from the wine. 喝过酒后我浑身的血都热烘烘的，感到很舒服。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 vessels   

n.血管( vessel的名词复数 )；船；容器；（具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的）人

参考例句：

• The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

10 stagnant   

adj.不流动的，停滞的，不景气的

参考例句：

• Due to low investment,industrial output has remained stagnant.由于投资少，工业生产一直停滞不前。
• Their national economy is stagnant.他们的国家经济停滞不前。

11 genetic   

adj.遗传的，遗传学的

参考例句：

• It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
• Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。

12 dehydration   

n.脱水，干燥

参考例句：

• He died from severe dehydration.他死于严重脱水。
• The eyes are often retracted from dehydration.眼睛常因脱水而凹陷。

13 brutality   

n.野蛮的行为，残忍，野蛮

参考例句：

• The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
• a general who was infamous for his brutality 因残忍而恶名昭彰的将军

14 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

15 stun   

vt.打昏，使昏迷，使震惊，使惊叹

参考例句：

• When they told me she had gone missing I was totally stunned.他们告诉我她不见了时，我当时完全惊呆了。
• Sam stood his ground and got a blow that stunned him.萨姆站在原地，被一下打昏了。