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SAT备考资料：ESSAY写作素材（33）

　　Then he threw himself into his charity work.Turners UN Foundation，the biggest of his three charities，recently spent $22.2 in one month combating intestinal parasites in Vietnamese children，reducing Chinas greenhouse-gas emissions and helping women from Burkina Faso start businesses selling nut butter. 　Nigel Pritchard，CNNs head of international public relations，who is sitting beside me，has prepared a memo outlining some things his boss might like to consider not saying.It politely suggests that he might steer clear of talking about AOL Time Warner，and，specifically，he might like to avoid reference to that Rhode Island speech.Turner is notorious for doing as he pleases.Early in his career，he made a pitch wearing no clothes to advertising executives;later，he went to Cuba to get Fidel Castro to tape a promotional slot for CNN. He has various worldsaving projects：from preventing the extinction of the Chiricahua leopard frog in the wilds of New Mexico to founding an influential nuclear non-proliferation institute.Turner really does seem to see himself as locked in a personal battle against apocalypse.He doesnt just give money：his staff are sometimes taken aback to see him skulking in the streets nearby，picking up litter. When Turner gave his first billion to the UN，he dropped 67 laces on the Forbes 500 rich list，out of the top 10 for ever. It isnt hard to see how Turners childhood might have instilled this sense of permanent crisis，of desperate insecurity，behind the frenzied activity that is his trademark.His father，from whom he inherited an advertising business that he turned into CNN，was prone to fits of rage，and beat him with a coathanger;he committed suicide when Turner was24.Even before that，his younger sister had died from an immune disease when she was 12，and Ted was sent to a boarding school he hated.His father，he has said，not without admiration，believed that instilling insecurity in his son would help him to achieve.All in all，Turner seems to have been a well-qualified candidate for total psychic collapse.But when everything goes wrong，he says today，you can either give up or you can try to fight.I tried to fight. After a brief spell in the armed forces，he ploughed his energies into his fathers billboard business，purchasing a radio station and using empty billboards to advertise it.His radio empire grew，and expanded to local television.By 1980，he was launching CNN，although it was not until the Gulf war that the often-derided channel came into its own.He created the Cartoon Network，and bought hundreds of old MGM films，which he recycled on another lucrative channel，Turner Classic Movies.His firm eventually merged with Time Warner.But then came AOL，and Gerald Levin，the chief executive of the new giant，decided he didnt need Turner -- or perhaps couldnt tolerate his unpredictability.Levin is gone now，and his replacement，Richard Parsons，has brought Turner back into the fold in a new vice-chairman position.The line from corporate communications is that Turner is back in the saddle.But this is not how Turner sees it.