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If you happen to be wearing a handy-dandy Techno Bra, you just kick back and let your brave bustier break it to the law. Wired reports that Kursty Groves, a dauntless design student at London's Royal College of Art, is perfecting a sassy security bra capable of calling the cops in case of attack and communicating its woe-befallen wearer's exact location. The dynamic dainty comes hot-wired with a built-in heart-rate monitor, a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) locator and a wireless phone. (What, no blender?) Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "It could notify the police if the woman was a victim of domestic violence," Groves gushed to Wired. "But for someone like me, who works a lot at night, it could notify my boyfriend -- someone who cares." (Unlike the coppers, of course.) The super-high-tech support system, which Groves claims is capable of distinguishing between a just- But a note to the wise: If combined with the world-famous Water Bra, this front-loaded lingerie could be deadlier than plugging in a hair dryer at your friendly neighborhood water park. - - - - - - - - - - - - Wicked game of the forever young "That's why they make multiplexes, isn't it? I go to see one movie, and I always try to see a second one." -- Morally challenged singer Chris Isaak on his perturbing penchant for sneaking into movies, in an upcoming USA Weekend magazine - - - - - - - - - - - - Wood you bet on this man? Don't cry for Al "Wake me when my speech is over" Gore just yet. His double-talkin' boss may be doing him more harm than good, the press may have declared him a dead duck before he even hit the pond and most polls may have him trailing moolah-man of few words George W. Bush by a whopping margin, but the Woodman's got a buncha British bookies betting on him. Flying in the face of front-running convention, the odds-making lads at London-based Ladbrokes are giving gigglin' Gore 5-to-4 odds over high-flyin' Bush in the Y2K election. Ladbrokes spokesman Ed Nicholson says the best bet's on Tipper's best boy and predicts a Gore victory come election day. Silly Ladbrokes, everyone knows the smart money's on Michael T. Miller, a Democratic presidential candidate from Florida, who Politics1 describes as "a budding songwriter, poet and supermarket employee." Miller, in case you British betters don't know, is also an experienced leader, having served as president of both his high school class in 1979 and an Elvis Fan Club in 1998. What other candidate carries the endorsement of the still-
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