Silkworms flourished in Constantinople, and the authorities there, like the Chinese and others before them, guarded the secrets of the process and controlled their monopoly in Europe until, inevitably, in the early Middle Ages, the knowledge and means were once more disseminated, this time to Anatolia and Sicily and from there gradually to Italy and France.
I.B.M. executives said the secret of the process was the patented method by which the computer maker has managed to perfect each layer of the material.
In the bowels of the Burns library at Boston College, some of the most interesting secrets of the peace process, and the violence that preceded it, are held in secure storage.
High school students and their parents can hire professionals to prep them for tests, polish their applications, and divulge secrets of the admission process -- according to Inside Higher Ed, one study showed that, in 2009, close to 26percentt of "high-achieving" students sought advice from private college advisors.
The great, open secret of the peace process is that most Palestinians and Israelis know, more or less, what a negotiated settlement between the two sides will look like: two states, tweaked 1967 borders, limited return of refugees, etc.
One big question is why its creators let the software spread widely, giving up many of its secrets in the process.
Now, you can learn the secrets of his retouching process on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's blog.
In this new world, as Julian Assange has acknowledged by using trusted news organisations to reveal the secrets, the process of editing and sifting and contextualising stories becomes more crucial than ever.
Hence Sissela Bok characterized confidentiality as referring "to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries" (Bok 1982: 119).
In May, the I.N.S. said 11 people were being held in the United States on the basis of secret evidence, though critics of the process said the number is higher.
Susan Lerner, the executive director of one of the groups, Common Cause New York, called the secret negotiations an "abuse of the process" that was "breathtaking in its scope".
