Word: instead
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...inhibitor, TNP-470, doesn't attack the tumor itself but instead targets the blood vessels...
...indeed lead to higher crime rates or severe property devaluation, the city could have used a number of non-speech related means to control the effects. Certain zoning laws might allow for more efficient law enforcement and could limit the extent to which the surrounding property is devalued. Instead, as Justice Stevens wrote, "the City of Erie has totally silenced a message the dancers...want to convey. The fact that this censorship may have a laudable ulterior purpose cannot mean that censorship is not censorship...
...stopped paying my bill and used the phone as a paperweight. The consumer-hateful contract ensured that I'd pay for a year's service no matter what, so a black mark soon appeared on my credit rating, like a bruise. I refused to capitulate, dedicating my life instead to abolishing cell phones and giving mean stares to people who talked too loudly on them in crowded places...
...Worse, when I called Motorola's toll-free help line, I was assured by two separate reps that the phone could be used only for faxing; e-mail and Web browsing could not be done via a laptop-phone connection! I would have sent the thing back in disgust. Instead, I pulled my reporter's credentials, went through the p.r. department and got to some Motorola engineers, who explained that it could be done-- and simply too. E-mail me if you want to know how. That goes for you Motorola support people...
...note that attorney Steven Wise, the self-proclaimed champion of animal rights [AMERICAN SCENE, March 13], does not defend the rights of all animals. Instead, Wise has created his own non-Darwinian continuum to argue for legal rights for only certain animals--the more a species is like humans, the more deserving it is of legal rights. Yet there is a danger in this approach. For it means the less like us, the less likely that legal rights would be granted. We don't live in an "us vs. them" world. We live in a world of "us and them...