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...Adam B. Lowther...
...Adam Goldstein, a.k.a. DJ AM, died last year of an overdose resulting from a drug relapse - while making a reality show about drug abuse for MTV that brought him close to his old temptations. NBC's The Biggest Loser casts ever heftier contestants and subjects them to ever-more-stressful challenges, to the point where it seems a competitive-eating reality show would be healthier. Sometimes it's the producers, not the viewers, who could use the reminder that it's not O.K. to do whatever it takes to win the (ratings) game. (Watch a video with Jillian Michaels...
...have felt that the book had been written from his own recipe for paranoid suspense. It's the story of a writer of celebrity lives - a magician's best-seller, for instance, titled I Came, I Sawed, I Conquered - hired to add some marketable pizzazz to the memoirs of Adam Lang, a retired British Prime Minister of the Tony Blair stripe. He's called in on this rush job because the previous ghost, Mike McAra, has died suddenly. Joining the ex-P.M. in a remote enclave on Martha's Vineyard, he is drawn into a controversy involving Lang...
...Adam Locke, VANCOUVER, WASH...
...Revenue rose 8% in 2008, to $386 billion, and an additional 6% bump is expected for last year, according to Pembroke Consulting, a Philadelphia distribution and manufacturing consultancy. Plus, an aging population and reform will be extra boons. "In theory, more insured people should mean more drug utilization," says Adam J. Fein, an economist and the founder of Pembroke. "That means more money in the pockets of wholesalers...