"Obviously, my drug use is exaggerated or I would be long since dead," he told a USA Today reporter in 1990.

"Obviously, my drug use is exaggerated or I would be long since dead," he told a USA Today reporter in 1990.(Denver Post)

(Hunter S. Thompson) was a little more complex than most of us, so maybe some of those demons surfaced and he didn't like what he saw."

"We all have demons," Ortega said. "Who knows, man? You sit down, have a few cocktails or maybe nothing--maybe you have a cup of green tea--and maybe nothing seems right. He was a little more complex than most of us, so maybe some of those demons surfaced and he didn't like what he saw."

Hunter Stockton Thompson was born July 18, 1937, in Louisville, Ky. His father, Jack, was an insurance agent.
(L.A. Times)

``television-viewing audiences did not know that stories they watched on television news programs about the government were, in fact, prepared by the government."

``television-viewing audiences did not know that stories they watched on television news programs about the government were, in fact, prepared by the government. We concluded that those prepackaged news stories violated the publicity or propaganda prohibition.'' (AP)

what some have called "the greatest scientific instrument since the invention of the very first telescope" will be left to decay and fail.

Hubble's remarkable pictures will be with us for as long as we care to look at them - the telescope itself will not.

The US space agency (Nasa) has made it clear it will not service the observatory again and what some have called "the greatest scientific instrument since the invention of the very first telescope" will be left to decay and fail. (BBC)

Anderson had every move scripted before the shoot even began.

One of the things that is regularly said about Anderson is that he has great persuasive powers and picks his collaborators with great skill. He wrote The Royal Tenenbaums specifically for the notoriously private Gene Hackman. Hackman at first found the script too detached: "I am generally better at emotion," he said later. And too specific: he didn't like the fact that Anderson had every move scripted before the shoot even began. He was persuaded when Anderson convinced him that he would not make the movie without him. "I've seen it already in my head." (Guardian)

"But it's great that I can finally switch my brain off and relax in the company of others which I've really missed."

Mountainous seas, icebergs and gale force winds have threatened to capsize her boat - and she narrowly missed a collision with a whale on day 63. (BBC)