Japanese Take-Out

I doubt you'll find one at Victoria's Secret, but a new bra unveiled by Japanese designers gives ladies a nifty place to stash their collapsible, reusable chopsticks. That's right. No need to use the throw-aways. With the new undergarment on, you simply reach down your blouse and whip out your very own pair of eating utensils. Sounds silly, I know, but the problem that prompted it is serious. The Japanese alone go through 25 billion -- billion! -- pairs of disposable wooden chopsticks every year, most of them imported from China, which cuts down roughly 25 million trees annually to produce more than 45 billion pairs of chopsticks. To help slow the rate of consumption China has slapped a 5 percent tax on chopstick exports.