Mystery solved

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Chinese women 'need bigger bras':
"Bra producers have been forced to offer bigger cup sizes in China because improved nutrition means women are busting previous chest measurements."

A few hours before encountering this item, I had seen a report on TV that Hooters was setting up shop in China and I had wondered if restaurants there could offer the same sort of attraction as they do here. Well, it seems prosperity has opened up a new opportunity for employment of women in China that I had not anticipated. It is that sort of vision that causes Hooters to get rich selling over-priced beer and wings to guys like me.

Meanwhile, UK PM Tony Blair who holds the rotating EU presidency is trying to end the "bra war" with China. It seems the Chinese, immediately after agreeing to a textile export regime which called for modest 8 to 12 percent annual increases in several categories of manufactured textiles, managed to exceed their 2005 quota in just two months for most of those categories including bras.