LAB WORKER CHECKS SILICONE IMPLANT IN RIO DE JANEIRO, 2003-03-27 (photo)

A laboratory worker of Silimed factory checks silicone in Rio de Janeiro, in this picture taken on March 27, 2003. Apart from endowing with silicone eight out of every ten Brazilian women who choose to jump into a bigger bra, Silimed, as the Brazilian firm is called, exports 65 percent of its output and is the world's No.3 supplier of breast implants. This summer, Silimed will open a new plant capable of producing 500,000 silicone packs annually, more than three times the size of its current capacity of 150,000 pieces, as it prepares an assault on the U.S. market-the world's biggest. Picture taken March 27. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes/FEATURE/LIFE-BRAZIL-BREASTS SM/GN