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The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality ( ' , 专业) and rank.

Leah easily could have fallen into a trap of feeling content; instead, her energy sparked a period of experimentation and renewal.

Instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.

Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings ( ' , 瘾) and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature.

You can't just say, ‘Let's put this person in a residential care home instead of a nursing home—she will be much better off, Dr.Robison said.

Instead, Soupios says, ancient wisdom urges us to do good.

Waiters should be paid by employers instead of customers.

I offer a simple proposition in response: Many of our problems—class attendance, educational success, student happiness and well-being—might be improved by cutting down the bureaucratic ( ' , 官僚的) mechanisms and meetings and instead hiring an army of good teachers.

Why not instead think of learning as if it were food—something so valuable to humans that they have evolved to experience it as a pleasure?Joy should not be trained out of children or left for after-school programs.

The assumption is that children shouldn't chat in the classroom because it hinders hard work; instead, they should learn to delay gratification ( ' , 快乐 ) so that they can pursue abstract goals, like going to college.

No one is asking you to give up activities you like, but if you're watching food shows on TV, try cooking instead.

Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.

Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right.

In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rather than stringing together nonsense words, for example.

Furthermore, students will be able to purchase sections of the text instead of buying the whole thing, with individual chapters costing as little as $

The bid went instead to Fuji, which exploited its sponsorship to win a permanent foothold in the marketplace

Instead he was keenly interested in product design and aesthetics （美学）, and in making advanced technology simple to use.

put their money together instead of keeping it separately

If we ask Americans why they eat with knives and forks, or why their men wear pants instead of skirts, or why they may be married to only one person at a time, we are likely to get similar and very uninformative answers: "Because it's right.

I wish we'd gone to the beach instead.

Actually, I'm on holiday with my family in Thailand at the moment, although I wish it were with my friends instead.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rath

But I'm here to tell you that instead of focusing on doing what we love, I think we should focus on loving what we do.

But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold's letter revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines.

Having a person, instead of a computer, reach out to you is particularly important in combating that sense of isolation.

I offer a simple proposition in response: Many of our problems—class attendance, educational success, student happiness and well-being—might be improved by cutting down the bureaucratic mechanisms and meetings and instead hiring an army of good teachers.

Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings 瘾 and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems?

Instead, he wants to show that nature itself can teach us to take care of the environment.

Instead, it may highlight your inability to delegate effectively.

Instead, topping the list of reasons, about four-in-ten Americans point to a double standard for women seeking to climb to the highest levels of either politics or business, where they have to do more than their male counterparts to prove themselves.

Sometimes its employees are released from their daily jobs for weeks and spend their time interacting in the innovation facility instead.

That's the vision of a hotel chain that plans to send digital keys to guests' phones via an app instead of making them check in and get the traditional plastic swipe cards.

The assumption is that children shouldn't chat in the classroom because it hinders hard work; instead, they should learn to delay gratification so that they can pursue abstract goals, like going to college.

The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality and rank.

The general consensus is that the best ones avoid mindless violence, and instead focus on strategy and challenge us to solve problems and achieve broad goals.

These are processes that you are developing so that you are able, over time, to tackle more interesting problems, more challenging problems 一 problems that require many people instead of one person, and many skills instead of one.

What has changed, instead, is the relative share adopting different ways of living in early adulthood, with the decline of romantic coupling pushing living at home to the top of a much less uniform list of living arrangements.

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

At a time when young beauty shoppers are often turning to Sephora or Ulta instead of department store beauty counters, Macy's hopes Bluemercury will help strengthen its position in the category.

But, instead, the Chicago union seems to be using its political capital primarily to protect weak performers.

Instead, some in Africa and Asia are seeing their first lightbulbs illuminated by the power of sunlight stored in batteries.

Flexibility resulting from the use of digital devices benefits employers instead of employees.

Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.

She decided to take lunch to work instead.

Medicare could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if everyone used the cheaper drug, Avastin, instead of the costlier one, Lucentis.

Instead of skipping out on higher education altogether, they chose community colleges or state schools with low bars for admittance.

Instead of normalising the undesirable behaviour, the message needs to marginalise it, for example, by stating that if even one person buys yet another SUV, it reduces our ability to be energy-independent.

In their evolution, humans have learned to pay attention to the most urgent issues instead of long-term concerns.

Yet virtually no providers of goods or services rely on this alone, butuse paid advertising instead.

Instead of having a literal meaning, it docs something - conveying an attitude — just like the -ed ending conveys past tense rather than "meaning.

When you see things like Ford moving new production from Mexico to Detroit, instead of the other way around, you know things are changing," says Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council.

Milkman, the sociologist, argues that American craftsmanship isn't disappearing as quickly as some would argue - that it has instead shifted to immigrants

According to Ruth Milkman, American craftsmanship, instead of disappearing, is being taken up by immigrants.

The Three-Year Solution Hartwick College, a small liberal-arts school in upstate New York, makes New York, makes this offer to well prepared students: earn your undergraduate degree in three years instead of four, and save about 543,000—the amount of one year's tuition and fees

Instead of protecting speech and encouraging diversity and innovative thinking, the tenure system often stifles(压制)them: younger professors must win the approval of established colleagues for tenure, encouraging like-mindedness and sometimes inhibiting the free flow of ideas

Instead of taking 30 credits a year, these students take 40.

But a bigger problem may be that poor high schools often send their students to colleges for which they are "undermatched": they could get into more elite, richer schools, but instead go to community colleges and low-rated state schools that lack the resources to help them.

Instead of directly saying no to your boss, you should find out what is in your boss's mind

There is no easy way to measure racism directly; instead psychologists assess what is known as "implicit bias", using a computer-based test that measures how quickly people associate positive and negative words—such as "love" or "evil"—with photos of black or white faces.

Those who are thinking their time did reverse spending time socializing instead of working.

What does the woman suggest they do instead of paying the South Theater Company's travel expenses?

"I'm going to leave it to those who are in mathematics to work out the ways to make their subject interesting and exciting so students want to take it," Hacker says. "All that I ask is that alternatives be offered instead of putting all of us on the road

All that I ask is that alternatives be offered instead of putting all of us on the road to calculus.

And instead of showing just the typical pair of eggs in a hummingbird nest, she painted four.

And when we get off the plane, instead of being depleted, we feel recovered and ready to return to the performance zone.

But it's said to no longer contain kola nut extract, relying instead on artificial imitations to achieve the flavour.

Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.

Customers can bring shoes of any brand into an Adidas store to be shredded and turned into alternative fuels for energy creation instead of being burned as trash.

Food security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain, and nowhere more so than in Africa, where 96% of farmland depends on rain instead of the irrigation common in more developed places.

Frida Bengtsson from Greenpeace's Protect the Antarctic campaign said: "If the krill industry wants to show it’s a responsible player, then it should be voluntarily getting out of any area which is being proposed as an ocean sanctuary, and should instead

From now on, when someone asks you how your life is, try responding with words like "exciting" and "fun", instead of the culture norm that says "busy".

Instead of discarding their old worn-out jeans, customers bring them in to be renewed.

Instead of narrowing our focus, like negative emotions do, positive emotions affect our brains in ways that increase our awareness, attention and memory.

Instead of trying to refine old formulas, they invent new ones.

Instead, Hacker is pushing for more courses like the one he teaches at Queens College: Numeracy 101.

Instead, I dreamed of living in New York City and my parents obliged me with a visit to New York University's NYU campus.

Instead, most people seem to learn better if they're taught in several ways, especially if one is visual.

Instead, Rodriguez solicits residents' advice on what he should get on his cheeseburger and how he should spend the afternoon.

Instead, they perform routine and laborious tasks, freeing nurses up to attend to patients with immediate needs.

Instead, they receive a fixed rate, which is typically about $825 for a standard four-hour vocal session.

Instead, thoughts make sense only in reference to the individuals' external world.

It's likely you prefer to feel happy instead of sad or confident instead of insecure.

Now, imagine the same dinner, but instead of checking their phone, the person belches—loudly.

Now, instead of swimming upstream, we relax, sleep, watch movies, or listen to music.

Once you get out of there, you become that part, only you're using music instead of dialogue.

Researchers are already asking if motor vehicle use has reached its peak and will decline, but transport planners have yet to catch up with this trend, instead of laying new roads to tackle traffic jams.

So it's a welcome change that people are studying instead the future of intelligence.

So, instead of innovation for innovation's sake and new products being created simply because the technology is there, the company culture must switch from these point-in-time innovations to a continuous pipeline of innovations from everywhere and everyon

The dataset they used did not include economic data, so instead the researchers looked at whether the 2013-16 well-being decline was tracking economic indicators.

They lack water-storing structures, and their existence on rock faces prevents them from tapping groundwater, so they have instead developed the ability to change their metabolism.

Those involved in the clinical trails on average ate 3.3 servings of pasta a week instead of other carbohydrates, one serving equaling around half a cup.

Try to not have lunch at your desk, but instead spend time outside or with your friends一not talking about work.

We may instead find ourselves feeling guilty about the time we didn't spend watching our children grow all with our loved ones, or travelling or on the cultural or leisure suits that bring us happiness.

When psychologists and educators test for learning styles, they're trying to figure out whether these are inherent traits that affect how well students learn instead of just a preference.

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead

A line graph looks similar to a bar graph, but instead of bars, it plots points and connects them with a line.

Almost every grandparent wants to be with his or her grandchildren and is willing to make sacrifices, but sometimes it is wiser to say no and visit frequently instead.

Another reason for corn's rise: the government encourages farmers to grow corn instead of rice to improve water quality.

Benjamin decided that cat hair would work instead.

But it may well be that the learning you really want lies somewhere else instead.

By the time she was 13, her company was worth millions of dollars with the invention of a super-sweet treat that could save kids' teeth, instead of destroying them.

From what I have seen, few do homework; instead many are on their phones and talking, making it impossible for those who actually want to do work to complete any.

He would have to go home too, carrying the papers instead of money.

Hospital patients who see tree branches out their window are likely to recover at a faster rate than patients who see buildings or sky instead.

However, instead of devoting themselves to their work, they find themselves working to support the lifestyle to which they have so quickly become accustomed.

However, instead of taking care of his business, john was often off exploring nature.

I changed my mind and chose history instead.

I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn't fit.

Instead of a courtyard room, I'd like a room with a view, preferably on an upper floor.

Instead of introducing scientific theories, he tells a story, within which he tries to make his points, perhaps in order to keep the reader's attention.

Instead of looking at the situation from this hopeless angle, look at everything you still have and be thankful for all of the good in your life.

Instead of promoting the idea of college as a passage from the shelter of the family to autonomy and adult responsibility, universities have given in to the idea that they should provide the same environment as that of the home.

Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and encouraged them.

Instead of trying to pick out a job for me, they helped me learn those things that led me to it.

Instead of using up 219kg of steel, we've use only 6kg.

Instead of walking a few blocks to pick up a child or the dry cleaning, they send the self-driving minibus.

Instead, babies may form an understanding of object support through repeated experiments and then build on this knowledge to learn even more about how objects interact.

Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date.

Instead, he invented a reading system of raised dots点, which opened up a whole new world of knowledge to the blind.

Instead, he says, firms should provide a plain-English version of their terms.

Instead, I ‘d head straight for Yangshuo.

Instead, if there had been any talking, it would have caused us to learn less.

Instead, she is earning $6500 a day as a model in New York.

Instead, they emphasise the story of the youth who seizes opportunity and becomes a masterful leader.

Instead, we had a pop-up camper with comfortable beds and an air conditioner.

Instead, you can find some sources from the Internet and print the copies needed.

Instead, you would see plenty of animals with people running after them.

Instead, they learn both explicit and hidden meanings from what they see.

Instead, we are diurnal creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the sun's light.

Now instead of men giving to the state, the state was to give to them.

So instead of eating a piece of yesterday's bread from the supermarket, you'd eat something baked just for you on demand.

So, a female cat without children may bring these " treats " to her owner instead.

The new rate is $199 per night, instead of the original $179.

They found that more on demand environment viewing on tablets instead of TVs and desktop computers could cut energy consumption by 44%.

This guy has nothing and yet he didn't take the wallet for himself；he thought about others instead it's unbelievable.

We eat about 22 percent more when using a 12-inch plate instead of a 10-inch plate.

We need to repair our possessions instead of throwing them away.

When faced with so many options, the lion chooses to freeze and wait instead of attacking the man holding the chair.

Yet instead of being discouraged by my slow progress, I was excited.

You can make your environment work for you instead of against you.

Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits.

Instead, the new habits we deliberately ingrain into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.

Instead, the claimant receives a time-limited “allowance,” conditional on actively seeking a job; no entitlement and no insurance, at ￡71.

Work with a professional photographer instead of your spouse or friend.

Try a hair stylist instead of a barber.

Instead, use it as an opportunity to reduce decision fatigue.

Buy all your clothes once with a stylist instead of shopping alone, one article of clothing at a time.

With characteristic confidence, Dickens successfully insisted that Seymour’s pictures illustrate his own story instead.

Across the country, factory owners are now grappling with a new challenge: Instead of having too many workers, they may end up with too few.

But we are taught instead to "decide", just as our president calls himself "the Decider"?

But we are taught instead to ‘decide,'just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider.'?

In fact, instead of straining muscles to build them, as exercise does, laughter apparently accomplishes the opposite.

Instead of casting a wistful glance backward at all the species we've left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real costs of our own intelligence might be.

Instead of wordy, worthy strategies, future governments need to do more to provide the conditions for sport to thrive.

Instead, being grateful for small things every day is a much better way to improve well-being.

Instead, the claimant receives a time-limited "allowance", conditional on actively seeking a job; no entitlement and no insurance, at ￡71.70 a week, one of the least generous in the EU.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

Instead, the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend, with countries over the past few years proposing or putting in place an alphabet soup of new international tax provisions.

Instead, the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.

Instead, the studies ended up giving their name to the Hawthorne effect", the extremely influential idea that the very act of being experimented upon changed subjects'behavior.

Instead, they focused on communication: "He doesn't listen to me.'', "He doesn't talk to me."

Instead, they look after their well-being instinctively, and usually more effectively than we do as grownups. Perhaps it's time to learn a few lessons from them.

It takes more upkeep, burns more fuel and is slow off the starting line because it depends on learning—a gradual process—instead of instinct.

It turned from God and the authority of the Roman Catholic Church and instead favoured a more humanistic approach to being.

It's also a good idea to shop daily instead of weekly, because, being-human, you'll sometimes change your mind about what you fancy.

Only strong people prefer to smile and value their life instead of crying and complaining about something.

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense

There are fundamental public health problems, like dirty hands instead of a soap habit, that remain killers only because we can't figure out how to change people's habits.

with characteristic confidence, Dickens successfully insisted that Seymour's pictures illustrate his own story instead.