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If one can learn anything from futuristic and successful peer-to-peer marketplaces like Fancy, Silk Road and bitcoin-OTC, the lesson is that reputations matter and exploiting the reputational component opens up breathtaking advancements in payments and P2P exchange.
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To the function-based repurposing of natural-wonder materials, like silk and cashmere.
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You place in front of them a billion pound carrot of borrowing powers - a golden carrot, if you like, but on condition that Silk or a broad swathe of it is implemented - and you make that explicit deal very public in advance.
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Wang folded fabric like origami to create wool-silk tops, and then topped them over the chest with a silk band.
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Months before, Mr. Phillips had shown her how to deep-fry pinches of corn silk to form ringlets that look like little nests.
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The result of the singer's ambition is " Itica Pritica" (the "C" sounds like a "K"), an exhibition of more than 20 silk-screened works by Matthews and close friend Beezy Bailey at the Robert Miller Gallery in Hell's Kitchen.
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It's a model that scientists have tried with spider silk before, but because the proteins in spider silk are so large, it takes some pretty wacky-sounding techniques to replicate them (like getting it from the milk of transgenic goats).
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Those rich, fall-like colors were readily visible: Plums, as in a crepe jumpsuit with a silk georgette blouse and long leather plum gloves.
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The show was like walking into a garden of organza peonys, crepe-de-chine azaleas and ivory silk faille trimmings.
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