Their defence lawyers portrayed some as childhood victims of abuse, others as addicts.
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Gaby Wood,
Vogue,
21 Feb. 2026
Boston community leaders proposed a new plan to tackle the open-air drug market at and around Mass and Cass that focuses on getting addicts off the streets, out of jail and into recovery in order to avoid last summer’s crowding and chaos.
Which makes him pretty much like a lot of his action-sports brethren — all of them adremaline junkies — who will grace the 50-meter-high hill (165 feet) built on a scaffolding at the Winter Olympics in Livigno over the next two weeks.
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Eddie Pells,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
In the brain scans of other extreme athletes and adrenaline junkies, Amen said there’s often lower baseline activity in the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in fear inhibition, impulse control and risk evaluation.
Dispatches is essential to understanding a cluster of journalists who covered the war, notably the enigmatic hippies and stoners in the circle around whom photojournalists Tim Page, Dana Stone and Sean Flynn were the centre of gravity.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Dec. 2025
That’s right, the guy who wrote a movie about two stoners who can’t find their car now wants to ask you about your mother.
Not all iPhone users will have access to the feature.
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Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
Afterwards, ByteDance rolled back that feature and introduced verification requirements for users who want to create digital avatars with their own images and audio, according to Chinese media.
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