Word: overruning
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...Dean stands too far to the left of the American mainstream. That Dean is running well among students is undeniable, but this should not be turned into a mark against him. For example, Dean is currently running about even with Richard Gephardt in Iowa, a state that is hardly overrun with Kavulla’s “liberal rich kids...
...Most astonishingly, David's transformed his tiny new apartment into a warm family nest - papered with crayoned drawings, overrun by two cats and a hamster - in which his kids feel the freedom to exercise every child's birthright: watching too much TV, making too much noise, and loving their daddy to death...
...notion behind X-Men: a school for mutants, run by Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), mind bender and father figure. Director Bryan Singer's first XMen, a hit from summer 2000, was basically Men in Black from the point of view of the humanly challenged: sure, the earth is overrun by odd creatures, but we must nurture them and harness their strengths, not send out the feds on an ethnic-cleansing orgy...
Will nanomachines one day be launched into our bloodstreams to monitor health and combat disease? Or will "self-replicating nanobots" proliferate out of control until they completely overrun the planet? A runaway plague of rogue nanobots wouldn't violate basic scientific laws, but that doesn't make it realistic. This extreme outcome is not likely, but it's not impossible either - and that's exactly what critics of the technology are worried about. It is foolhardy to venture predictions about what science will achieve this century. Scientific predictions have been notoriously awry in the past. In 1933 Lord Rutherford...
...once the government buildings had been stripped, the more insatiable looters sought out any target of opportunity. The National Museum was stripped of tens of thousands of artifacts from the cradle of civilization. Hospitals, colleges, markets, deserted air-conditioning factories were overrun by frantic thieves who cleaned them bare and then set them on fire. By night, there were more plumes of black smoke rising over Baghdad than at any time during the war. "We asked the Americans to stop this," said Mohammed, a former civil servant, "but they say they have no orders to do so. Saddam...