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In a century of technological revolutions, this was perhaps the quietest.

It is one of the most famous oneword lines in the history of Hollywood: “Plastics.” But however intergenerationally challenged that half-drunk friend of Dustin Huffman’s parents may have been in The Graduate, he was right about the impor

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