Word: pooling
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THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A GOOD GENE POOL...
...Cirque. The Montreal-based art circus has finally made a film that captures the joy and awe of shows like Quidam, Mystere and O by placing Cirque du Soleil's most enthralling acts in natural settings: a bungee ballet in a forest; a living-statue duet in a Renaissance pool; the graceful intricacy of swimmers locking into Busby Berkeley designs underwater in the Bahamas. The performers' precision and daring touch the viewer, and not just because Journey is in 3-D. Here are humans achieving the impossible, beautifully, in a film worthy of being displayed on a screen eight stories...
SEASON 3 Sparks fly in a hotel-pool makeout session with Dylan...
...This was the part that scared off Alan Greenspan last year. Purists feel that government investment of such a huge pool of money in the markets, even in a broad-based mutual fund run by a blind trust of sage bankers, amounts to state ownership of private businesses. Of course, investment decisions made by market professionals instead of private citizens with day jobs are more likely to pay off reliably in the long term. But the administrative tangles and potential conflicts of interest - as companies vie for the attention of the fund's directors - have nudged this proposal...
...watched the March on Washington on a grainy black-and-white television set. I reacted first with surprise - at so many Negroes (as one said then) assembled in the great white marble public spaces (Mall, Lincoln Memorial, Reflecting Pool) of a city I knew to be so intensely segregated that it replicated a southern plantation (grand edifices for the whites, slave quarters off somewhere out of sight, the capital city's terrible metaphysical division: White-Black, Power-No Power, Exist-Don't Exist). My surprise turned to wonder: at the sheer numbers, at the people, dignified, well-dressed...