Word: instead
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With the project essentially complete three years ahead of schedule, we must note the change of heart of its early enemies. Instead of wanting us shut down, as they did as late as 1991, they now beg us to move quickly on to the genomes of the mouse, the rat and the dog. Equally important, we note that no other big science project, save possibly the Manhattan Project, has been carried out with such zeal for the common good. In sharing their sequences so freely and so quickly, members of our genome community have little time left to promote their...
...Earth's, and the planet's average temperature hovers around a paralyzing -67[degrees]F. In an environment as harsh as this, any water that did appear would either vaporize into space or simply flash-freeze where it stood. What scientists studying Martian history have always looked for instead are clues that the planet's ancient water left behind--tracks where vanished rivers once flowed, basins where vanished seas once stood...
...consumption in public. There I was, viewing the Oscar winner on a portable DVD player and sobbing like a freshly minted Mafia widow. The last time I cried so hard at a movie was as a kid when Old Yeller bought it at the end. Only this time, instead of containing my grief by burying my head in a bucket of popcorn in a darkened movie theater, I was bawling on a 7:30 a.m. train to Manhattan. People, understandably, were staring...
...talented and gifted) children and left Eliza and her fellow mediocrities to plod along as best they could. So when her teacher asks Eliza's group to stand up and take part in their first spelling bee, the little girl fully expects to sit down again very quickly. Instead, she wins the competition in her class and then her school. Next come triumphs at the district and area levels, and Eliza qualifies for the national finals in Washington...
...Health column on full-body CAT scans, "Scan or Scam?" [PERSONAL TIME, May 29], TIME ran the image of a radionuclide bone scan instead of that of a CAT scan. The photograph was misidentified by the photo agency. TIME regrets the error...