Word: pools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Currently, the best defense pilots have against such sky skids is an alert by other pilots up ahead who have just traversed a pool of unsteady air. But NASA and private industry may soon have a better way: they are designing a sort of infrared radar that would let planes scan the sky for agitated particles in the air characteristic of CAT. NASA plans to test the device next spring but does not know when it will be operational. In the meantime, the FAA is improving the pilot reporting system by equipping planes with software that measures even mild turbulence...
...Best-Known Clone Embryologist Ian Wilmut made a big splash in the gene pool when he announced that he had cloned a sheep named Dolly. Though animals had been duplicated before, Dolly was the first ever created from an adult cell rather than an embryonic one, raising the specter that a human will one day follow in her hoofsteps...
...growth of the applicant pool continues a trend several years old, Fitzsimmons said...
That year, Harvard saw its Early Action applicant pool shoot up by more than 1,000 applicants...
While all the online services get spammed, America Online is particularly vulnerable. One reason is that it's by far the largest, with about 10 million subscribers, giving E-mailers a large, captive pool of targets. Another is that AOL members are encouraged to fill out self-descriptive "profiles" that spammers can easily sift through to assemble lists of potential customers...