Word: addicting
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...DIED. TIMOTHY TREADWELL, 46, self-taught bear expert and wildlife advocate, and AMIE HUGUENARD, 37, after being attacked by a brown bear; in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Treadwell, a former drug addict, wrote Among Grizzlies about his experiences in the wild and appeared on TV shows such as the Late Show with David Letterman. The Anchorage Daily News reported some of Treadwell's last words to his girlfriend, Huguenard, which were caught on their video camera: "Get out here. I'm getting killed...
...gigabyte iPod. This sounds bad enough, but worse yet, I purchased it after owning a five-gigabyte iPod for only six months. I am, admittedly, a gadget addict. I am one of those guys who actually reads the Circuit City ads in the Sunday paper before getting to the op-eds. If you look at my Internet history, you’ll see endless links to amazon.com, where I look daily to see if the price of the Canon GL2 digital video camera has gone down yet. It’s pathetic, but I can’t help...
...retired millionaire businessman, Thatcher often described himself as the most "shadowy husband of all times." He walked a step behind his wife of 52 years throughout her 11 years in office, calling himself her male consort. Thatcher, known for his right-wing views and blunt wit, was a golf addict who attributed his slim physique to "drink and cigarettes." Asked who wore the pants in the Thatcher home, he replied: "I do. And I wash and iron them...
Born to drug-addict parents, Murray spent much of her childhood on the streets of New York, shuffling between friends’ houses and children shelters...
...convicted on 59 counts of conspiracy and fraud in 1985 for using his articles to make money in the stock market; and the Washington Post, which had to return the 1981 Pulitzer Prize won by reporter Janet Cooke for the haunting story of Jimmy, the 8-year-old heroin addict who turned out to be nothing more than a ghost from her typewriter...