Word: instead
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...answer starts in junior high Sunday School. I got my theological instruction from Madonna, so I felt class was superficial. Instead of learning, then, I spent my time trying to attract my female classmates (unsuccessfully) and sneaking away with my friends to turn off the church's air conditioning system (successfully, but this was an extremely bad idea). My teachers, faced with a classroom of people like me, needed to reach the lowest common denominator. We watched Rambo, ate many donuts and played a lot of run-around-and-shriek games. If there was a message in there, I usually...
Harvard, to its credit, did not give up after the mid-game collapse. Instead, the Crimson clawed back to get within two points at 14-12. Princeton ultimately turned away the Crimson comeback and hanged on to win the first game...
When initial searches on "Tolstoy," "Microsoft" and "love" proved fruitless, I decided to browse through the dozen or so category listings instead. But as I bounced from "education" to "entertainment" to "spirituality," I simply couldn't find a conversation that piqued my interest, except as a voyeur. Perhaps that's why of the 16 people listed in the fun-peers.30s section, only two were actually typing, including someone with the handle BOD2DIE4, who wrote, "No one is talking to me," and someone called YORKIETHE1ST, who asked, "Is everyone asleep in here?" Then I discovered that while Chatscan scours...
...doctor to speak up as well. A new national program titled Speaking of Pain, organized by the Arthritis Foundation and four other health organizations, provides some useful tips on how you can do that. Don't just quietly accept any treatment prescribed. Instead ask what other options might be available. Also, make sure you're told about the side effects as well as the benefits of any therapy...
...erase the vague sense in dotcomland that the party, if not quite over, is definitely winding down. It's behemoths like Cisco and Intel that are keeping the NASDAQ afloat. The Web bubble is bursting. Has burst. Which means that some of us now roaring toward online glory may instead face that Wile E. Coyote moment when you look down and realize you just sprinted off a cliff...