The string of five straight 3s began when Tekele Cotton spotted up with 6:05 remaining and hit a shot that cut Wichita State's seven-point deficit to four.

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They had their old cracked drummers' cases and cotton sacks tied up with their things on the ground beside them.

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Last September, the New York brokerage Cantor Fitzgerald teamed up with the New York Cotton Exchange to develop an electronic exchange to trade American government-bond futures, striking at the core of the Board of Trade's franchise.

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However, with the demand for clothing picking up alongside the shortage of cotton, the cost of the raw material has soared.

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Exports of wheat, barley and cotton will fall, and with them the incomes of farmers, who make up nearly 30% of the workforce.

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Chiles grew up on a plantation picking cotton for a white landowner, and going to segregated schools with her three sisters in the town of Itta Bena.

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And with cotton acreage decreasing by 18.6 percent, is it surprising that cotton prices went up 86 percent over the last 12 months?

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