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In the bottom corner of my overstuffed dresser drawer of running clothes is a 9-year-old sports bra. Its once-fiery orange has faded to a dingy, tepid coral. Two of its hooks are bent in directions that make it impossible to wear. The Velcro straps—adjustable for comfort on this Cadillac of bras—don’t stick together anymore, which means that if I were to put it on, my breasts would loll out like a pair of microwaved Peeps. This nearly decade-old bra is the opposite of lingerie. Frankly, it’s a little gross that I still have it, but I can’t bring myself to...

Booby Trap Bras sells a sports bra with a hidden knife pouch sewn into the lining. The founder, Jennifer Cutrona, developed the idea after a scary close call. She was jogging on a trail near her home, just outside of Austin. "I walked around thinking life was all rainbows and butterflies until I was jumped out at on a local running trail. I was in active wear and had no form of protection on me. The little pocket knives I had collected over the years were all at home in the drawer with my pepper spray," ... Other Booby Trap...

“Million Dollar Baby’s” Multi-Million Dollar Rip-Off By Debbie Schlussel “Million Dollar Baby” will win the Academy Awards. Not because it’s the Best Picture. But because it’s Hollywood’s best political propaganda of the year. More effective than “Fahrenheit 911.” Think “Baby” is about Rocky in a sports-bra—as it’s being marketed? You’ve fallen for the “Million Dollar” lie. What it’s really about, has nothing to do with Rocky Balboa or boxing. That’s just the cover story to suck movie-goers in for a nefarious message. “Baby”—which has critics gushing all over each other—is a two-hour, twenty-minute exercise in subtle and then not-so-subtle left-wing...

...as body search arrives in cultural minefield of Afghan frontier.I idly mention to my translator in Peshawar how a war photo published in all the Pakistani dailies has outraged everyone who has seen it....(snip) "Look a little closer," I said. "That is a woman soldier who is patting the Afghan lady down." "Impossible," all the Muslim men in the room say in unison. The masculine ambience of this frontier city near the Khyber Pass is so pervasive that, at least in the warlord's antechamber, a female soldier is utterly inconceivable....(snip) For Complete Article, Please Click Here.