When Deborah Met Salma
It’s not often that movie stars and pop singers are given the same celebrity as top scientists. The October 3, 2008 issue of the International Herald Tribune features a stunning conjunction of celebrities: Dr. Deborah J. Anderson of Boston University Medical School and Harvard Medical School, co-winner of the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry (for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide); movie stars Salma Hayek and James Earl Jones; and singer Tina Turner:
