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HIGH-TECH WAXWORKS

Britney Spears is to get a pair of inflatable breasts that will pulsate in time to her dancing -- at least at Madame Tussauds Museum in London.

"There are plans to make a new figure of Britney Spears, she'll be very sexy and she'll have heaving bosoms. But this is only in the very early stages of planning," says a spokeswoman for Madame Tussauds.

She says the wax model would be based on one of the pop stars videos, in which she dances breathlessly around a pole, reports the Web site of the South India newspaper, NewIndpress.com.

The initiative is the latest by the museum to make its models not just visual but tactile -- Brad Pitt has got a squeezable latex butt, but Spears would be the first with heaving bosoms, according to the spokeswoman.

CYCLING MAY BE HAZARDOUS FOR SEX

According to a Belgian study, cycling may damage riders' sex lives or cause pain.

The findings, published in the Bicycle Saddle Report 2003, are based on a study of 1,000 cyclists of whom 94 percent said they had experienced physical problems while cycling. Of these, 60 percent said the discomfort was felt in the genital area.

Researchers at University Hospital in Brussels find men who cycled were twice as likely to suffer erectile problems as non-cyclists. For women riders, genital swelling was found to be much more common than previously realized.

However, Chris Boardman, Britain's gold medal-winning Olympic cyclist expressed skepticism.

"Virtually all the cyclists I rode with have fathered children. I have only known a couple of people who have suffered from reduced virility and none of them were cyclists," he tells the London Daily Telegraph.

HE GOT HER GOAT

An Oklahoma woman is facing murder charges because her husband got her goat -- he refused to feed them.

According to police, 47-year-old Pearl Smith, of Eldon, Okla., pointed a pistol at husband, Thomas, and demanded he take care of the feeding of the goats.

Police said when he dared her to use the gun and took a step toward her, she allegedly fired once and killed him, the Tahlequah Daily reports.

ELECTRICIANS TRY HAND AT ART

A group of electricians who helped build a new gallery in New York tried their own hand at sculpture.

The workers tried to pull a prank on museum experts by forming metal left over from the construction project into their own sculpture -- and then quietly placing it on the exhibition floor among John Chamberlain's work.

To art lovers, Chamberlain's sculptures of twisted car parts are considered some of modern art's finest achievements.

According to one of the electricians, the electricians' opus stayed on the floor, mingling among Chamberlain's creations, for almost a week.

However, Amy Weisser, the museum's assistant director, tells the New York Post the electricians' creation was left among other building and packing items and was never mistaken for Chamberlain's work.