Gorbachev is new face of Louis Vuitton
Thu Aug 2, 2:28 PM ET
PARIS – Move over Scarlett Johansson! Mikhail Gorbachev is the new face of Louis Vuitton.
The former Soviet leader is to appear in an ad campaign for the French luxury label, along with Steffi Graf and her husband, Andre Agassi, and Catherine Deneuve, said a statement Thursday from Vuitton, a division of the LVMH group, Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA.
Shot by photographer Annie Leibovitz, the ads focus on travel — a “core value” for the company that started in 1854 as a trunk-maker, the statement said.
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/070731_twoheaded_jellyfish.html
Scientists Create 12-Headed Jellyfish
By Charles Q. Choi, Special to LiveScience
posted: 31 July 2007 08:03 pm ET
“Jellyfish with up to a dozen heads have been created in the laboratory by carefully monkeying with a few genes.
“The genetic experiments could shed light on how natural colonies of other multi-headed organisms first originated, including some that build coral reefs.
“Researchers targeted so-called Cnox genes, which help control how the bodies of jellyfish are laid out as their embryos develop. These genes are closely related to Hox genes, which play a similar role in humans.”
First of all, why Cnox genes? If they’re jellyfish, why not use the Knox gene>
Second, Samuel Z. Arkoff beat them to the punch more than three decades ago . . .
