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Back in 1979 author Thomas Harris was in Mississippi writing a novel about an intrepid detective named Will Graham who was on the trail of a particularly gruesome serial killer dubbed the Red Dragon. During long nocturnal walks through a cotton field, Harris came up with an ingeniously creepy notion: Graham would seek expert advice from a murderer he had captured years earlier--the baddest serial killer of them all, one Dr. Hannibal Lecter...
...March 23, Tse's black Ferrari F360 Modena crashed on Cotton Tree Drive in downtown Hong Kong. Who was at the wheel? Tse's former chauffeur Shing Kwok-ting, according to the original police report. Further investigation indicated otherwise: Tse had actually crashed the car, called Shing at home and at Shing's suggestion, Tse left the scene, allowing the chauffeur to ask the arresting officer, Lau Chi-wai, if he could "stand in" for Tse as the culprit. Shing and the officer then went to the Central Police station, where Lau asked him to fill out forms indicating that...
...through the 29 Pacific ports had come to a standstill. Some 160 ships loaded with everything from bananas to Nissan 350Zs began stacking up around the harbors of San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Seattle while idling truck drivers were loaded down with wine, apples and cotton#151;the perishable exports of U.S. farmers and companies needing to sell their goods around the world...
Carrie, for instance, would never have to deal with the rabbit dilemma. Ensconced in a closet optimistically known as the “fashion storeroom,” I held in one hand a Marty Samuels cotton voile broderie anglaise dress. I had begun to think in terms of such minutiae as “broderie anglaise” routinely, as one of my many dogsbody tasks included writing captions for clothes featured in photo shoots. In the other hand, I clutched industrial-strength stain remover which, even after hours of intense scrubbing, had failed to remove the aforementioned rabbit...
...chemical process that adds "nano-whiskers" to cotton fabrics and renders them wrinkle and stain resistant explains new products from Eddie Bauer and Lee Jeans. The fabrics were developed by Nano-Tex, a Greensboro, N.C., company that is 51% owned by Burlington Industries, a textile firm that is struggling to emerge from bankruptcy. Nano-Tex has also developed active-wear fabrics that disperse and dry sweat. Later this year, it will launch a line, destined for socks, underwear and T shirts, that will channel body odors through the structure of the fibers...