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The staff at Jupiter Scientific presents a collection of biology jokes , though Daily Scan will let you decide which are genuinely humorous. The jeans/genes pun plays prominently on the list:
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Jeans/Genes and Other Overplayed Puns
The 2012 edition of the Ford Focus might just be made with your old pants. The car maker will use recycled cotton from blue jeans for new interiors, Forbes reports: “Each new Ford Focus will have roughly two pairs of average-sized American jeans in it. The recycled blue jeans will be used as both sound absorption material and carpet backing. The recycled cotton is just one of several recycled …
Continue here: Ford Wants to Recycle Your Old Jeans In Their Cars
Levi Strauss , manufacturer of the world’s famous jeans, has come up with a line of ‘Water jeans. The average pair of jeans uses 42 liters (11.1 US gallons) of water in the finishing process and the new Levi Strauss’ Water line will result in reduction of water by 28 by making changes in the final process. Read more…
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Waterless Levi Jeans?
• She needed jeans! Vanessa Hudgens chatted up denim designer Chip Foster and celebrated the launch of his new line, Pray for Mother Nature, at Planet Blue boutique in Venice, Calif. The actress also loaded up on new denim, including a pair of Jesse Spano’s flare jeans and a pair of jeggings.
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NEW YORK Half-priced jeans and promotional freebies are already popping up at the mall with the start of school still weeks away.
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Teen retailers brace as recovery slouches
Last week, an Australian court acquitted a man named Nicholas Gonzales of rape charges brought by a 24-year-old woman. Gonzales avoided conviction because the woman was wearing tight-fitting jeans when the incident took place–jeans that, according to Gonzales’s lawyer, would have been “difficult… to be taken off by someone else unless the wearer’s assisting, collaborating, consenting.” The so …
Continue here: ‘Skinny Jeans Defense’ Clears Australian Man of Rape Charges
Turn your favorite denims into insulation via The Gap’s From Blue to Green Denim Drive . Take your well-used jeans to any Gap store in the USA until March 14 and receive 303A//www.greenmuze.com/green-your/fashion/2372-recycle-your-jeans-for-insulation.html” title=”Recycle Your Jeans For Insulation (GreenMuze)”>Recycle Your Jeans For Insulation (GreenMuze)
Three Philadelphia moms have created M’Chic jeans, a surefire remedy for muffin top and related fashion maladies caused by ultra chic, ultra low denim …
More here: Jeans that put muffin tops, cracks behind you (Cape Cod Times)
Alanis Morissette and Woody Harrelson have teamed up to promote a new eco-jean line — Reco Jeans made from recycled denim fabric. Using materials that would normally end up in the landfill, the eco-celebrity duo have created super-soft denim jeans made from the highest percentage of recycled denim fibers in the jean industry – more than 3003A//www.greenmuze.com/celebs/green/1283-new-celeb-eco-jeans.html” title=”New Celeb Eco Jeans (GreenMuze)”>New Celeb Eco Jeans (GreenMuze)