Instead,I spent all my time, and a lot of my money, trying to build the perfect microscope.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

I had no breakfast, and decided to have a swim in the Bronx River,instead.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

"I realized that if I was going to write, what I was going to have to do instead was to write what I was willing to learn instead of what I knew.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

"Sometimes I think instead of asking how many LASIK procedures you have done, you should actually ask the doctor, how many have you turned away."

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

"You don't have this. You don't have that.' And I think we do a disservice to our kids when we tell them what they can't do instead of telling them what they can do."

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

I thought I wasgoing back to Vietnam, but instead they decided the best way for meto fight the Communists was to play Ping-Pong, so I was in the special Services, traveling around the country, cheering up wounded veteransand showing'em how to play Ping-Pong.

VOA: standard.other