Word: instead
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...carbon sink" proposal looks set to send any chance of implementing Kyoto down the drain. Instead, it will live on in that guilty limbo where we all store those New Year's resolutions we know we're never going to keep. The Clinton administration may have signed the treaty, but it did so safe in the knowledge that it wouldn't have a prayer in the Senate. After all, Al Gore wasn't about to become the candidate urging Americans to trade in their SUVs for battery-powered cars, and if the Europeans weren't going to accept America...
...Instead, there are many decentralized hubs called routers that direct data from one local network on the Internet to another...
Revote in Florida? Don't cheer too soon. The vote in question is not for the American presidency, but instead that of our northerly neighbors. Canadian citizens will hit the polls, come Monday, to vote for their next prime minister...
...those fears to rest. The Canadian electoral system is distinctly different from the American model. Canadians, in fact, only vote for their prime minister as a matter of speaking. Nowhere on their ballots will they find the names of the candidates for Canada's top-job. Instead, they will cast their votes for the candidate and party that they wish to represent their region, or riding, in the House of Commons--the Canadian legislature. The leader of the party that wins the greatest number of ridings will become Canada's next prime minister...
...Because only some of the measures were instituted, it seems that the decision-making process was driven more by the fact that HLS felt it necessary to keep with the times, instead of taking an active role to become a trend setter," says Daniel N. Kassabian, a third-year law student...