Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kitchen appliances, thermostats and burglar alarms. Heating and air conditioning can be programmed to go on in one room but not another. Sprinklers buried in the lawn start up automatically -- and know enough to shut themselves off when it rains. A robot sweeper cleans the surface of a swimming pool, while infrared beams and motion detectors scan the property, guarding McCovey's irreplaceable collection of batting trophies whether he is at home or away. "What I like about it," says McCovey, "is you can just set it and forget...
...children and all their regular service people have been issued special pass codes that unlock the doors, as the computer records to the minute everybody's comings and goings. Even the Arvays' two-year-old niece Jennifer is served by the system. Whenever she toddles too close to the pool, a motion detector sets off an alarm that can be heard throughout the house...
Fuller and Koinonia leader Clarence Jordan started Fund for Humanity, a pool of capital that was used to buy building materials and serve as a mortgage source for people too poor to qualify for bank loans. Modest homes, built with volunteer labor and some donated materials, were sold at cost to low-income families. Their payments, plus donations and other money raised, replenished the fund, and the money was recycled to build even more homes. There were problems: raising seed money and bureaucratic snarls, but it worked. By 1976 he had visions of grandeur...
...forest. "It was unbelievable," recalls Kouchner, who is now France's Secretary of State for Humanitarian Action. "Some of them were | carrying their own plasma bags. Others had been operated on, and their intestines were hanging out as they ran." Outraged, Kouchner and Recamier decided to organize their own pool of doctors who would put medical needs above bureaucratic procedures. Soon after, the two doctors helped form Medecins sans Frontieres...
...Lanka, "but to do something about it is better than doing nothing." As more and more people become committed to the idea that, as Bernard Kouchner puts it, "mankind's suffering belongs to all men," the day may not be far off when there will be a substantial pool of medical personnel at the ready, prepared to alleviate pain and promote better health, wherever the need exists...