The Chinese were the first people to make paper, porcelain and pyrotechnics.
Futurists predicted that the computer would make paper obsolete.
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Although the sector is hardly glamorous and the lack of raw material makes India, by Thapar's own admission "not the best place to make paper, " the country is one of the world's fastest-growing paper markets.
The paper industry argues that recycling paper and managed tree growth make using paper cheaper and easier on the environment than the cost of recycling computer components.
Although Mr Peruvemba says his firm has started manufacturing displays with flexible backplanes in-house, its many partners are also busy researching ways to make electronic paper as flexible as the real thing.
Nearly 77% of all U.S. papermakers use some recovered paper to make everything from newspaper to paper packaging to office paper.
Known as conduits, these special-purpose vehicles borrow in the short-term, commercial-paper market to make acquisitions of highly rated paper in American asset-backed securities, and have been walloped by the plunging value of those assets since the frailty of subprime loans were exposed.
One of them combines painting and collage to create innocuously pretty abstractions that would make attractive wrapping paper.
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For tech startups, having founder equity can make you a paper millionaire overnight although that money can take years to actually reach the bank.
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HSBC, which has big businesses in many places, may make sense on paper, but whether the two could work together is open to question.
The mass market increasingly does not write, or rather does not make marks on paper with the same alacrity and frequency, in the computer age.
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Pregnancy websites have some handy hints for mothers-to-be about how they could use their placenta in making prints, using the placenta to make patterns on paper.
The result is that cassava remains a subsistence crop in Africa, but in Asia is something on which you can build a business (it can also be used to make clothing, paper and biofuels).
He would also make the force paper-free.
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So it will be interesting to see what tangible proposals on flags make it into their final strategy paper, and whether those proposals make any difference on Northern Ireland's flag festooned streets.
Nisenholtz says the paper will make more content available after its pay wall is in place.
Electronic paper could make these even lighter and changing or recharging batteries could become a thing of the past.
However, many paper firms make money in ways that ignore those benefits, leaving others to suffer the consequences.
Understanding the findings from this paper should make you a more informed dater, not a more cautious one.
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Some factories now make furniture out of paper instead of wood, and the island has gained a reputation for making eco-clothes.
The planning paper will make it easier in future for the UK to build large infrastructure projects like these - and wind farms.
Such crises occur when the IOUs or banknotes of a nation lose credibility and other nations are called on to make these pieces of paper good.
Every April, female silkworm farmers adorn themselves with colourful flowers made of silk or paper and make harvest offerings as part of the Silkworm Flower festival.
For the party, she lined the blue doughnuts along a big piece of Lucite over a blue piece of wrapping paper to make it look like a pool.
"This one piece of paper could make this Parliament more responsive to voters' demands while helping this government better explain the spending decisions it has chosen to make, " Mr Gummer told MPs.
Unlike conventional batteries, however, no poisonous chemicals are used to make Dr Ajayan's paper.
Perhaps today is actually about a convergence of interests - a paper looking to make a splash and a Commission looking at an expensive recommendation that it doesn't really want to (in fact, has no plans to) implement in this way.
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