"It is much more useful and informative to do one comprehensive natural-history study rather than numerous smaller efforts, and we encourage people to either pool their efforts or, even better, collaborate on one larger project, " says Sandy Walsh, an FDA spokeswoman.

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As usual, though, keep an eye on Mr Lafontaine, who thinks little of central bankers and wants governments to pool their efforts to steady currencies and create jobs.

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Yahoo has 150 newspapers in a consortium to pool online ad sales efforts.

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The emphasis on HTML5 widens the recruiting talent pool for potential Facebook developers, while consolidating their efforts into fewer versions spread across multiple operating systems.

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But the growing talent pool comes at a time when U.S. colleges are increasing efforts to recruit internationally, especially for men's teams.

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If I had to make a prediction, I think that sales are going to be slightly depressed where 4G networks are limited or not available, which is good news for US consumers because the efforts to keep the iPhone 5 in stock will have a larger pool of devices to draw from.

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