<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mikey1003:
you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear....</font>
Yes you can! The Boston Globe wrote last week about how AD Little pulled this off. Unfortunately, it seems you can't get their articles for free anymore. An excerpt:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">SILKY PROFIT FROM SOW'S EARS
Published on November 5, 2002. Author(s): Jeffrey Krasner, Globe Staff
In the annals of industrial alchemy, it is an object without peer.
In 1921, Arthur D. Little, the head of the then-avant-garde Cambridge consulting firm, brought together a band of scientists with the purpose of disproving the adage, "You can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear."
A little insect anatomy, some undergraduate-level chemistry, some raw material from a meatpacker, and presto: the group produced a pair of tasseled, green-and-red-striped silk purses of the</font>
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