Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...talking about Harvard's investments under the illegitimate South African regime. Harvard rationalizes these investments saying they in no way encourage apartheid. Instead, the monies increase the representation of our outlook on apartheid. They allege that the U.S. firms provide jobs and opportunities for Blacks. And a fire sale of assets would only benefit the white establishment anyway. So the administration claims its investments in no way buttress the apartheid system which most Americans find depraved and repugnant. Harvard cannot claim that about the spending which we wish to address...
...University is obviously uncomfortable with its role in providing abortions. UHS only refers students to clinics; no actual abortions are performed. Instead, the University attempts to shift the venue and the accountability--in an effort to avoid the shame of operating such a sleazy enterprise--by sending the women of Harvard to subtle suburban abortion dens But the blame for these acts cannot be transferred because the students are going to UHS for help and instead they are being referred to modern-day butchers who practice our contemporary genocide...
Researchers cut short the aspirin half of the study in 1988, after preliminary data showed incontrovertably that aspirin has a beneficial effect on heart disease. Overseers of the study said they felt that to continue giving half of the subjects placebo pills instead of aspirin was unethical, as was withholding the clear scientific evidence of aspirin's positive benefits...
...Instead of a cure-all, scientists say, betacarotene might just be a "marker"--a biologicalred herring which does little for the human body,yet always shows up in a healthy diet high invegetables and fiber...
Despite their ignorance, though, researchersare already looking past the study, anticipatingpopular reaction to the results. Hennekens fearsthat those who engage in high-riskactivities--smoking in particular--would take betacarotene instead of altering their lifestyle...