Word: instead
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...Instead, they voted to de-emphasize the role evolution would play. They were okay with the concept of microevolution, changes that occur within a gene pool of a species of plants or animals. That was left alone...
...company has often argued that the major record labels have failed to keep pace with the American consumer. And instead of working on its technology sprinting skills to catch up, the Recording Industry Association of America has cried copyright foul. The RIAA sued Napster for "contributory copyright infringement," and won a preliminary injunction against the company late last month in Federal District Court. But a higher court of appeals dismissed the injunction several days later, and oral arguments have been scheduled for September. Intellectual property experts and philosophers have tossed in their opinions, some supporting copyright law in its current...
Riess's colleagues are most impressed with his willingness to challenge his own work. "Instead of making an emotional commitment to the accelerating universe," says Harvard's Robert Kirshner, one of the team's leaders, "Adam is always trying to see whether we've done things right...
Today neurobiologists no longer argue about whether or not the brain can grow new cells. Instead they're trying to figure out how this cell growth can be harnessed to treat everything from epilepsy to stress to depression. Some have observed that during stress, for example, neurogenesis in the learning center of the brain in several animal species slows considerably--which may help explain depressive episodes that accompany stress...
...independence, has borne the brunt of the resultant hostility, and despite apologizing for its past ill-treatment of the Sephardim, it continues to suffer their ire. Shas recently bolted Prime Minister Ehud Barak's coalition, and last week helped defeat his nominee for president - the ur-Ashkenazi Shimon Peres - instead electing an Iranian-born legislator from the opposition. But the contempt for European Jewry implied by Rabbi Yosef's depiction of Holocaust victims signals a new low, and the fact that it came as part of a sermon castigating Barak's peacemaking efforts and characterizing all Arabs as "cursed evildoers...