Sandy Black, who is currently reading fashion and textiles at London College of Fashion, says in particular, knitwear is an extremely high-tech part of the fashion business.

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For his twelfth birthday, Sandy had gotten a large, flat black portfolio made of hard cardboard that folded along a sewn seam and was secured at the top edge with two attached lengths of ribbon that he tied in a bow in order to fasten the leaves.

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The black, brackish water from Superstorm Sandy that filled her Long Island house has receded.

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In October 2000 the floor of a 72-acre wastewater reservoir built above an abandoned mine in Kentucky collapsed, sending black sludge through the mine and out into a tributary of the Big Sandy River.

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