As we strolled the pier with his staff and clambered down onto the beach, a seal swam just offshore between us and the silk curtains deployed to prevent winter flounder from spawning near the construction site.

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We live in fast-changing times but we are, most of us, more Velcro than silk.

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By the way, given the number of times the assembled politicians told us they couldn't pre-empt the Silk Commission's findings, I hope Mr Silk feels thoroughly un-pre-empted this evening.

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The manuscripts are written in many languages from the Oriental peoples, such as Uzbek, Arabic, Persian, Tajik, Urdu, Pashtu, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Tatar, Turkmen, and Uyghur and then translated in different at different periods, showing us the interrelations of the people, enhanced by the Silk Road.

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