Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...they may contain a so-called cuckoo egg--a gotcha message posted by anti-Napster activists. Last week Napster users downloading the new Barenaked Ladies single, Pinch Me, and got a version implanted with a "Trojan horse": a spoken message from the band telling fans to buy the song instead. Worse still, P2P files may harbor a file-eating computer virus. The advantage of a record company's official site is that it has quality control; its files can be guaranteed free of cuckoo eggs and viruses...
...late '80s, Krayzelburg's parents were so worried about the deteriorating Soviet system that they applied for exit visas. The family, including Lenny's sister Marsha, finally left the U.S.S.R. in 1989 and landed in Los Angeles. At what should have been the peak of his career, Krayzelburg instead found himself struggling to learn a new language, getting a maintenance job at the local Jewish community center and swimming only a couple of hours a week...
...Bell was all over the airwaves with a spot that spoofed life in a cable-modem world, where neighbors have to share Internet bandwidth and end up fighting one another during prime time because their service has slowed to a crawl. This, the ad said, is why you should instead get the superfast phone technology DSL (Digital Subscriber Line). For $40 or more a month, it's supposed to let you surf at around 30 times the speed of a 56K modem and talk on the phone at the same time...
...Instead of a threat, the arctic meltdown could be the biggest opportunity we've had to work together [ENVIRONMENT, Sept. 4]. We have to forget the artificial division of peoples, nations and races. We're just individuals with a common goal: survival. PETER DEN OUDEN Amsterdam...
...result is a leisurely, meandering journey from which the map-thief disappears for long, long stretches. Instead, Harvey relates his own fascination with cartography and reveals that as a child, he had an uncommonly keen sense of direction. Famous mapmakers of the past are resurrected and given thumbnail biographies. The sequential digressions are occasionally diverting, but some readers, trying to maintain a grip on the story's thread, may conclude, alas, that magazine editors serve a purpose...