Word: instead
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...Instead of a simple mixing of cultures, residents acknowledge that the neighborhood's Portuguese and non-Portuguese populations tend to self-segregate, in large part because some of the older Portuguese residents have never learned to speak English...
...Harvard--that mainstay of parental habitation during commencement--actually belongs to Harvard University. If students had known the Inn was Harvard-owned, perhaps they wouldn't have deposited pennies for a student center on the steps of Mass. Hall, as the Undergraduate Council did last year. Instead, they might have handed their piggy-bank to the Inn concierge as a down payment on a student center...
...these days, the Reform Party has lost its edge. Having now lost the support of its founder and its only successful candidate, the party has stopped being a whetstone to sharpen the political system. Instead, it has become another harmless fringe party on par with the Libertarians. The Reform Party needs to disband rather than go the way of groups like...
...discoverer of species, Van Roosmalen has the right to choose their scientific name. Instead he may auction off this privilege to the highest bidder and use the proceeds to protect the species in their original Brazilian habitat. Fame means less to him than saving a pure, emerald swath of the Amazon. Otherwise, he warns, "the rain forest will be destroyed before we even know what plants and animals are out there...
...travel has kept her from getting too involved in her son's presidential campaign, which suits her just fine. "I haven't kept up with anything," she says. "In a way, I'm sorry I'm home. I don't want unpleasantness with anybody." Instead she prefers to indulge her voracious interest in art and architecture. Traveling as a young mother with her two sons and a daughter, McCain tried to impart her love of art by taking her family on trips to Winterthur and the Hermitage. It didn't rub off on the Senator. "You have to really love...