It took a great deal of time and effort to gather fibers from plants or animals to make into yarn which could then be made into cloth.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

Grand says if they were to make the cloth now, it would be twice as expensive as buying it from outside.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

For Dow Chemical,the main focus will be producing material from algae that can be used to make plastics.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

It should be one of the rules. The more people that graduate from communities like this and make something of themselves the way she did, the more we become a more egalitarian society."

VOA: standard.2010.06.05