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...Americans always kept buying more and more cigarettes. Today, though, while the $18 billion tobacco industry remains very profitable, the element of predictability is gone. The industry is facing a spate of product-liability suits and, for the first time in its history, a period of declining consumption. Unit sales peaked in 1981, when Americans puffed on 640 billion cigarettes. By the end of this year, consumption is expected to be down 7% from that level...
...December 27, 2004, was my first official day as commanding officer of the First Health Support Battalion, one of Australia's two Army medical units. It was my birthday too, and our family had just moved into a new house, so I was unpacking and getting ready to have 30 people over for a birthday lunch. I had two chickens in the oven and was just about to pop some champagne when my mobile phone rang. When I hung up I said to my Mum, well, I'll see you sometime. I rang my husband, who's a fireman...
...There were 154 of us who went to Indonesia, and in the nine weeks we were there we treated 3,600 people and performed 292 major surgical procedures. I met my New Zealand counterpart on the phone, and 12 hours later her unit and mine were working together. There were so many people coming to us from everywhere. And you don't just look after the patients in those situations, you get to know their families too. You hear their stories, and you form a very close connection with them. And in Aceh, as in East Timor, there was overwhelming...
...When we came back from Indonesia I told my unit that this was another page in our history. Every year, particularly as Australia's commitment to the world grows, we are adding pages to our nation's history. Anzac Day is like that: it's not just about the First World War or Anzac Cove, it's about that being a defining moment in a history that we are adding to all the time. It's a day when we celebrate who we are and what we can be. To me, being an Anzac is not only about being...
...haven’t been playing well as a unit,” Samuelson said. “We’ve had lots of individual efforts, and now we just need to put it together...