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It is reckoned that four-fifths of smartphone owners check their devices within 15 minutes of waking up, and that the typical user does so 150 times a day. Companies are getting at once more sophisticated and more shameless, how are they keeping people hooked? http://econ.st/1tJZrwp

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Getting hooked

CICERO once said that “Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to see the truth.” These days it would be truer to talk of an insatiable desire to...

ECON.ST

 DANNY BOYLE, a British director, may have made his name in the 1990s with a gleefully nasty thriller, “Shallow Grave”, and a boisterous junkie comedy, “Trainspotting”, but these days he’s in danger of becoming respectable. His latest films, “Slumdog Millionaire” and “127 Hours”, were an Oscar winner and an Oscar nominee, a sure sign of his being embraced by the establishment.


Google launching all2012 YouTube channel
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Google-owned YouTube is launching a special site Thursday that it hopes will be a one-stop online spot for political junkies to watch the good, the bad and the ugly of the 2012 presidential campaign. The site, YouTube Politics, will include videos from ...

‘Aftershock’/ Insatiable consumers are undermining...

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Apple's Big Cash Pile: The Odds Are Against a Big Deal The day long-suffering - very loosely speaking - Apple Inc. shareholders have been waiting for is nigh. On Monday, the iPad maker plans to say how it will spend its roughly $100 billion in cash.

Yet merger junkies are likely to be disappointed. As our colleague Nick Wingfield reports, analysts widely expect Apple to begin paying out a dividend to investors, as opposed to making some sort of blockbuster takeover. 


「我從小就是個政治狂（political junkie），」暢銷書《正義》作者、哈佛大學教授桑德爾（Michael...

junkie

also junk·y (jŭng'kē)
n. Slang, pl., -ies.

1. A narcotics addict, especially one using heroin.
2. One who has an insatiable interest or devotion: a sports junkie.

junkie[junk・ie]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[dʒʌ'ŋki]

[名]((俗))

1 麻薬中毒者.

2 ((おどけて))病みつきの人, マニア；熱狂的なファン

a television junkie
テレビ漬けの人.

Urban Dictionary: slumdog

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slumdog‎

A slum dweller. A person who lives in a poor makeshift locality in extremely dirty conditions like a stray dog. A person who lives in an overcrowde...

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Pronunciation: /ɪnˈseɪʃəb(ə)l 

  

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Definition of insatiable in English:

ADJECTIVE

1(Of an appetite or desire) impossible to satisfy:an insatiable hunger for success

MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES

1.1(Of a person) having an insatiable appetite ordesire for something, especially sex:‘You’re insatiable!’ she cried as she pushed him awayso insatiable a gourmand as myself

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Origin

late Middle English: from Old French insaciable or Latininsatiabilis, from in- 'not' + satiare 'fill, satisfy' (see