(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State John Kerry told high school students on Wednesday that "your parents' money is going to pay for the harder impact of storms that we're suffering – much more damage than ever before as a result of the intensity of the storms that we suffer because of climate change."
Speaking to students at Montgomery Blair H.S. in Silver Spring, Maryland on Wednesday, Kerry also answered his own question – "Why is the Secretary of State of the United States of America, in an age where we have terrorism and we have several wars going on at the same time – why are we focused on the oceans, and what does that have to do with my life every single day?" – by telling the youngsters that "the oceans are essential to your life."
Football and its most powerful organization, the National Football League, have faced a serious public relations problem regarding concussions. The NFL settled a massive class-action lawsuit brought by former players (and now, another former player is suing). Retired NFL star Junior Seau committed suicide, and was later found to have shown abnormalities associated with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Seau shot himself in the chest in 2012. Afterward, his family agreed to have his brain studied. Hollywood signed up Will Smith to dramatize the story of concussions in the NFL in the movie "Concussion," which chided the American love of football. The NFL is "a corporation that owns a day of the week," quipped Albert Brooks, playing forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, "the same day the church used to own."
