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...reasons American Apparel may survive is that it's a niche, value-added player. Its shirts are made with fine-knitted cotton with a higher yarn count than the typical T, making for a softer feel. Even if the company boosts sales fivefold, to $100 million, it will still be a minnow in the $10 billion U.S. imprintable T-shirt industry. But Charney is convinced that having a factory in America is critical to his success. "I'm a free-trader," he says. "I have no problem with lifting quotas and tariffs. I know my product will be better...
...where is the great wilderness of science, the frontier of the known universe? I think of the major scientific fields as blots of ink on a pristine white cotton-blend paper. As the inkblots themselves expand, the remaining unsullied stretches of undiscovered phenomena exist just where these blobs are about to merge with one another. The edges, the boundaries, the regions straddling two expanding scientific enterprises represent the cross-disciplinary jackpots of the 21st sanctuary. These are the wild fields, the fields in flux, the fields that make you want to ride on out on the range...
Termez is a frontier town, rough and desolate. It exists for no other reason than it is the end of the road, a former Soviet military outpost on the southern edge of Uzbekistan with a few cotton farms scattered over the surrounding dust-blown desert. When Soviet troops left Afghanistan in 1989 after a demoralizing 10-year war, the last convoy crossed the Friendship Bridge over the Amu Darya river less than a kilometer to the south. In a surreal end to a ghastly invasion and failed occupation that cost 15,000 Soviet lives, the bedraggled column left behind...
...still love him when he’s really famous. When she replies with “yes” again, Wayne asks, “Will you still love me when I’m bloated, purple, dead on a toilet seat while young girls in white cotton panties...
...have to be cerebral or complex—Is This It hits the listener on a gut level and gets under his skin until he’s bobbing his head, tapping his foot and wishing that he too were surrounded by young girls in white cotton panties. “Alone, Together” features the Strokes’ talent for creating seductive guitar hooks, while “Barely Legal” perfectly delivers the seemingly anthemic lines, “Well like my sister [I] don’t give a fuck / I wanna steal your innocence...