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...Force has finally decided what to do with its barely flown fleet of 106 training airplanes: Concede that it's high-flying junk...
...conditions, a view is taking hold that obesity will reverse the millennium-long trend of rising human life expectancy-that today's children will die younger than their parents. In Australia and New Zealand, various groups are pushing for numerous anti-fat measures, including taxing high-kilojoule foods, restricting junk-food advertising and cranking up the frequency and intensity of physical education classes in schools...
...really shocking. So far as I recall, it didn't upset other members of my middle-class Catholic family, since the only record player was in the dining room, where anyone could hear or overhear the LPs, and nobody gave me an angry shout to turn that junk off. So, by applying contemporary community standards (our house), I'd rule that Lenny Bruce was not obscene...
That's quite a crowd for a spot just outside tiny Millicent, in southeastern South Australia-reason enough to stop and check it out. On the way over, several blokes sporting check shirts and unfashionable haircuts pass by carrying large pieces of what might be called junk, a strong clue that what's going on in is a sale. Bingo! On closer inspection, it looks like a garage sale, but one participant won't let that description stand. It's a clearance sale, he explains. The owners of the four-hectare property we're standing on sold up five weeks...
...Osis is calm, Jennifer's the opposite. "I'm feeling very emotional," she says. "Really tight in the chest." It's not parting with the junk that's affecting her; more the realization that they're about to leave their home of 10 years, a three-bedroom, open-plan house that Zig built himself in his spare time, with a little help from family and friends. "We lived in the shed for a year," says Jennifer, who'll miss the Sydney bluegum floorboards-secret-nailed-most of all. "But the new owners have promised not to carpet over them...