• It's a blend of cotton and polylactide, a polymer derived from dextrose, which can be cost-effectively made from corn.

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  • He's wearing a yellow cotton Fabindia shirt with its trademark wooden buttons.

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  • "It's a lot of talk, a lot of rhetoric but it's like cotton candy -- it melts on contact but you can't live on it, " he said.

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  • When you buy a T-shirt that says "made in China, " there's a pretty good chance it's made of cotton that was grown on a farm somewhere in the United States.

    NPR: After 200 Years, U.S. Remains King of Cotton

  • So would Africa's cotton producers (which is why a quick deal on cotton subsidies is a good idea).

    ECONOMIST: Weighed in the balance

  • It's made from a blend of cotton and a new polymer made from corn.

    FORBES: Chemical transformation

  • But while he was a long shot at first, many Republican operatives say Cotton's resume should have tipped off a future in politics.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • For a short time, Cotton clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals and worked for a law firm in Washington.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Today, you had one of the country's biggest cotton merchants, which is a company called Weil Brothers, say it was getting out of the business altogether because the market has just become too risky.

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  • The emerging label Number:Lab makes a sporty zip-up sweater that's rugby-striped, performance-oriented pima cotton on one side, and a two-tone combination of the same insulated cotton and softer jersey on the other.

    WSJ: 'Transformer' Men's Outerwear: Action Figures

  • Henton's dunk and a fast-break layup by Cotton were the only Providence baskets over the final 10:08 of the period.

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  • Liverpool, the loser, retaliated by charging enormous dock dues on Manchester's cotton imports, so Manchester built a ship canal to by-pass Liverpool.

    ECONOMIST: Love in a cold climate

  • In part, that's a function of winter weather, said Ashley Cotton, vice president of developer Forest City Ratner Enterprises, which manages the arena.

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  • Arkansas supplies around a tenth of America's home-grown cotton.

    ECONOMIST: Some trouble for Mr Bush down south

  • It's filled with a mix of well-designed but low-key objects, like artist Doug Johnston's cotton cord baskets and sleek ceramics from Mud Australia.

    WSJ: 20 Odd Questions for Steven Alan

  • Almost a century later, America's continuing domination of cotton production led the Soviet Union, its implacable enemy in the cold war, to look for self-sufficiency in this vital crop.

    ECONOMIST: Cotton

  • Cotton's shrinking acreage will not make a comeback.

    ECONOMIST: The Delta region

  • Low in the sky there's the classic cotton wool Cumulus, the Stratus, a layer of "rather dull" cloud, and higher up Cirrus - "a translucent delicate streak as if a watercolour brush has been stroked across the blue".

    BBC: Weather talk: Is there a way to make it interesting?

  • Vincent Marush Sando, who coordinates a domestic-cotton promotion campaign in Mozambique's capital Maputo, says Africa should place stiff import duties on used clothes from the West.

    NPR: U.S., European Subsidies Undercut African Farmers

  • The coaches on the Big 12's spring teleconference were already talking about the Cotton Bowl having a spot in the rotation as if it was a done deal.

    NPR: College Football Playoff To Replace BCS

  • As children, my sister Danielle and I spent hours sitting on the floor of Patricia Field's Eighth Street boutique, collecting pins and pushing them into a cotton tomato pincushion while our mom shopped.

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  • Lundazi now accounts for about 12% of Zambia's cotton production, and there is talk of Dunavant building a ginnery.

    ECONOMIST: Africa 40 years on

  • In 1700 the world's biggest economy (and leading cotton producer) was India, with a population of 165m, followed by China, with 138m.

    ECONOMIST: A game of catch-up

  • As the news of the ban came out Australia's agriculture minister had just launched a report predicting that Australia would double its cotton exports between 2010 and 2013.

    ECONOMIST: Cotton exports

  • The boffins who created the stuff claim it's reusable and can be used on locally-sourced cotton fabrics for a minimal, 12 percent cost increase given current manufacturing conditions.

    ENGADGET

  • The samples could come from the personal items of the missing -- from toothbrushes and hairbrushes to used Kleenex or cigarette butts -- or by using a cotton swab to rub the inside of a survivor's cheek.

    CNN: Somber Manhattan back at work

  • As plant genetics research advances, however, industry scientists hope that it will be possible to breed cottonseed that produces superior flour, high-quality lint, and oil, so that almost every ingredient in a birthday cake can be produced with the leftovers from Nelson's cotton production.

    NPR: Texas Cotton: 'Farmer Profits at Every Step'

  • Perusing the five-star reviews in Perfumes, it seems that a good perfume is surprising, individual, abstract, witty, maybe ironic, complex (for example, Thierry Mugler's Angel perfume works because of the juxtaposition of cotton candy and flowers with a masculine patchouli), long-lasting, transformative (it somehow makes the wearer feel different).

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Janey Cotton's recent and riveting book "The Austerity Olympics" describes a country and a sports culture that would seem primitive not only to Jessica Ennis, Britain's 2012 heptathlete hopeful, but also to Milo of Croton, who won six titles at consecutive Olympics in the sixth century BC.

    WSJ: Social Media

  • It's made by wrapping plastic from recycled bottles around a polyester fiber and swaddling it all in cotton.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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