It was the need to fit in more columns that forced the human brain into its crinkly, wrinkled shape.

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Tony read the letter over breakfast and shook his copy noisily at me newsprint was crinkly and loud back then.

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This month the site began cranking out the first batches of the polymer, called polylactic acid, or PLA, ready to be used in everything from clothing to carpets to the crinkly, thin films used to wrap candy and compact discs.

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