Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mascot, other schools could steal it and we could become enraged and retaliate. Frats at MIT could engineer mechanical impersonations of our mascot which would appear and behave uncontrollably at football games...
Such frippery is superflous at the MCZ--the animals steal the show. Roommates Bonnie A. Pelly '96 and Bethany M. Lemann '96 came to the museum for a Biological Sciences 2 lab, and returned to check out the rest of the museum. "I liked the sperm whale's pelvic bones and the big dinosaur fossil. I love evolution. I love dolphins. I love primates," gushed Lemann...
These are all wonderful performances, in which rue and survivors' courage are gently voiced, with nobody trying to steal a scene or, heaven forfend, the picture. Moreau is particularly fine, since her role is one that could so easily be domineering...
...doctor might have been a more appropriate choice, I suppose, but according to the author, that would reinforce the stereotype of Asians as "math/science types." Perhaps the Foundation should have picked a businessperson--but then that would reinforce the stereotype of the Japanese manufacturers who "steal American jobs." The best alternative, then, would have been a politician, who not only breaks free from stereotypes, but also posseses the ability to advance the Asian "agenda," whatever that might be. Not only is this reasoning ridiculous, it reeks of political correctness...
What they and other researchers are plotting is nothing less than a biomedical revolution. Like Silicon Valley pirates reverse-engineering a computer chip to steal a competitor's secrets, genetic engineers are decoding life's molecular secrets and trying to use that knowledge to reverse the natural course of disease. DNA in their hands has become both a blueprint and a drug, a pharmacological substance of extraordinary potency that can treat not just symptoms or the diseases that cause them but also the imperfections in DNA that make people susceptible to a disease...