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...chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Common symptoms of CTE include sudden memory loss, paranoia and depression during middle age. The disease is also known as dementia pugilistica, or punch-drunk syndrome, because until recently the overwhelming majority of its victims were boxers. Not anymore. Researchers like McKee have found a deep and disturbing association between CTE and America's most popular sport. (Watch a video of what football can do to the brain...
Repeated blows to the head, which are routine in football, can have lifelong repercussions. A study commissioned by the NFL found that ex-pro players over age 50 were five times as likely as the national population to receive a memory-related-disease diagnosis. Players 30 to 49 were 19 times as likely to be debilitated. Of the dozen brains of CTE victims McKee has examined, 10 were from either linemen or linebackers; some scientists now fear that the thousands of lower-impact, or "subconcussive," blows these players receive, even if they don't result in documented concussions...
...embeds sensors that can record the impact of collisions. Another company, Xenith, markets a model with shock absorbers within the helmet. These devices, shaped like hockey pucks, are supposed to soften the impact of blows to the head. The company said it surveyed 540 players using the helmet and found reports of only three concussions. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...Having survived the death of a child, which studies indicate topples about 14% of marriages, the couple then endured a cancer diagnosis, also a major marital destabilizer; in one small study, researchers found that 21% of couples split after the wife got cancer. That's strike two. And finally, there was the whole having-a-baby-with-another-blonder-woman-while-your-wife-is-getting-chemo thing. This was a union that took some hard knocks. But it seemed to be pulling through. Like an old gunslinger down on ammo but fending off the lynch mob, the marriage had people...
...said to be even more reputation-shattering. Is it that John is simply too much of a biohazard to be near right now? Or is Elizabeth just tired of all the tabloid revelations? People sources suggest that even three years after she discovered the affair, Elizabeth never quite found a way to trust John again and checked up on him constantly, a strain that proved too much for both of them. As the old marriage saying goes, The problem is not whom you lie with. It's whom...