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Safe sex shop mixes humor with education

MADISON, Wis. (AP) AIDS is no laughing matter at the Safer Sex Boutique, but the unique shop offers such lighthearted gifts as condom-shaped candy and boxer shorts adorned with smiling condom cartoons that glow in the dark. Shoppers also can buy earrings and key chains that discreetly store condoms inside, or use a computer that calculates a person’s likelihood of exposure to AIDS. THE UNUSUAL store, open this holiday season, is a commercial experiment to market both silly and serious products that promote safe sex and draw attention to the needs of those who have acquired immune deficiency syndrome. “This is designed to talk about and promote safer sex by making it more fun and exciting,” said Dave Rompa, executive director of the AIDS Support Network in Madison, an advocacy group that helped develop the business. “Some stores will have a safesex comer or cute little condom section, but there’s never been a whole store devoted to it,” he said. SINCE THE boutique opened Nov. 5, it has drawn about 2,000 people both shoppers and the simply curious ranging from teen-agers and their parents to divorcees returning to the dating scene, Rompa said. In addition to shelves of books, magazines and videotapes about the dangers of AIDS and ways to minimize exposure, the store sells cards containing condoms, comic books promoting and explaining their use and T-shirts urging contraceptive use because it’s “condom sense.”

Big Three laying off 40,000

DETROIT (AP) The Big Three automakers are blaming economic uncertainty and dealer backlogs for the temporary layoff of 38,800 employees. ’ General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp, said the layoffs would begin today and run through Dec. 7 at 14 assembly plants in eight states. • “We are watching the marketplace and then we adjust production to meet those needs,” . Kathy Tanner, spokeswoman for GM’s Chevrolet-Pontiac-Canada

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There are also pink-and-black boxer shorts dotted with pictures of smiling condoms that glow in the dark. “CONDOM-SHAPED chocolate mints and glow-in-the-dark condoms are also big sellers,” Rompa said. The store was funded through donations and fund raising by the support group, Rompa said. Many of the products were donated by manufacturers and merchants throughout the United States, Great Britain and Canada, he said. Rompa declined to say how much money the store has earned. It is staffed by volunteers and all profits are returned to the group. THE SHOP WILL close Dec. 31, but Rompa said the group seeks more funding and hopes to reopen next year. “If people take safe sex seriously, it could be an ongoing business,” Rompa said. “We opened now for two months because these are the best shopping months and we’re providing products that are outreach, educational and practical.” The store sells several types of condoms barriers against sexually-transmitted diseases such as AIDS anti-bacterial soaps and other products designed to halt the spread of the incurable virus. It also features a computer that estimates a person’s risk of exposure to AIDS based on their sexual practices and another that describes possible treatments for those stricken with the fatal virus.

“We have a huge number of parents coming in and young people high school-age who want to know more because they aren’t sure what safer sex was all about,” Rompa said.

Group, said Sunday. Additional layoffs would be announced five to 10 days before they were to be imposed, officials said. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see more,” said Joel Pitcoff, Ford’s research and analysis manager. “We’ve been having shortages of dealer orders for some time.” The shutdowns won’t put a big pinch on workers’ wallets. Contract agreements with the United Auto Workers union provide laid-off workers with up to 95 percent pay during shutdowns.

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‘Keating Five’ hearing resumes with questions on staffer’s memo

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