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- NEW YORK (Reuters)
- There are "Year 2000" hats, countdown clocks and "millennium
bug" stuffed animals, but the race to cash in on Y2K got very personal
on Tuesday as makers of Lifestyles and Trojan brands unveiled rival millennium
condoms.
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- Ansell Healthcare Products Inc., makers of Lifestyles
brand condoms, Tuesday unveiled its Millennium 2000 lubricated latex condoms,
"for people who plan to start the new Millennium with a bang."
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- The Y2K-compliant Millennium 2000 condoms come in a range
of colors, such as Ruby Red and Bold Blue and Midnight Black.
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- "Recent surveys indicate that more than half of
the world's young people plan for their new millennium celebrations to
include sex," Carol Carrozza, vice president of marketing for Red
Bank, N.J.-based Ansell Healthcare said in a statement.
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- Ansell is a unit of Australia's Pacific Dunlop Ltd.
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- Earlier this month, a survey published by Durex, the
world's leading condom maker, found that half of all young people hope
the fireworks of the millennium end with sex.
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- The poll of nearly 5,000 people aged 16 to 21 in 14 countries
found that nearly two-thirds planned to use condoms as their method of
Y2K protection, while 16 percent would take no precautions.
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- Also Tuesday, Trojan, the No. 1 U.S. condom brand, introduced
its first non-latex condom, the Trojan Supra Microsheer polyurethane model,
which is meant to transmit body heat between partners. Trojan condoms are
produced by a unit of Carter-Wallace Inc.
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- "Trojan...is 'heating' up sex in the Year 2000,"
the New York-based company said in a statement.
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- The new Trojan condoms are futuristic enough, made in
a highly automated process using advanced robotic systems, the company
said.
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- The condom makers assured consumers their products will
continue to operate, especially if the lights go out on January 1.
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- "With this condom, no one will have to worry about
any Y2K glitches", Carrozza said of the Lifestyles Millennium 2000.
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- http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters19991214_3236.html
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