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One of America’s Oldest Industries, Cotton, Is Surprisingly High-Tech

By Kat Hannaford Published June 2, 2011, 2:40 pm ET

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Instead of bending down, turning around and picking a bale of cotton, America’s big industry is more high-tech than you thought. Wired looks at how the fibers are grown, picked, processed and spun into threads…for your threads. [Wired and Flickr]

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