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Bra-cum-gas mask wins IgNobel prize | DVICE:

An Illinois doctor won the Public Health section of the IgNobel awards at Harvard University last night, for her invention of a bra that converts into two gas masks.

Organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, the gongs are handed out to people whose achievements 'make people laugh and then make people think.'

Other winners included the Zimbabwe Reserve bank for issuing bank notes ranging from one Zimbabwean cent to 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars (Mathematics) and, my favorite, the Peace Prize. That was trousered by a bunch of guys from Bern, Switzerland, who experimented to discover which was worse: being smashed over the head by an empty beer bottle; or being smashed over the head by a full one.