It would have 40 seats in an area where patrons could follow the ponies on plasma-screen TV's instead of the ancient fuzzy-screened sets that many parlors have.
The third is: will these faux-exchange plans allow for reformed payment structures, of the kind that reward positive health outcomes instead of the ancient fee-for-service model that incentivizes wasteful health spending?
max) genome has undergone two rounds of large-scale genome and/or segmental duplication at about 14 and 42 Mya, respectively [ 30, 31], it is likely that the two GmNIP2s were produced via the recent instead of the ancient large-scale duplication event.
Along with other like-minded therapists, he turned instead to the ancient philosophy of Stoicism, teaching clients that it was their beliefs about the world, not events themselves, that distressed them.
No, I fantasize about how great my life could be if I owned a laptop (and knew how to use it) instead of this ancient typewriter of mine.
From his voluminous correspondence it is evident that the dominant influences on his thought were instead the teachings of the ancient Stoic philosophers and their neo-Stoic followers of his own day, who maintained that only virtue and inner strength afforded any protection against the unpredictability of life.
It was not known at the time that earthquakes were caused by the shifting of tectonic plates in the Earth's crust; instead, the people of the ancient Zhou Dynasty explained them as disturbances with cosmic yin and yang, along with the heavens' displeasure with acts committed (or the common peoples' grievances ignored) by the current ruling dynasty.
So, instead of the study of ancient Greece being predicated on its uniqueness – its isolated, exceptional and untouchable brilliance – some scholars are recasting the Greek world (and, in different ways, the Roman world) as part of a series of networked cultures in multivoiced conversation with the lands lying east and south of the Mediterranean.
In the last scene, all the characters look at the horizon, where instead of the Isle of the Ancients appears a great luminous cross.
And instead of an ancient Egyptian decree, the core text of the Rosetta Disk is the first three chapters of Genesis, the most commonly translated text.
Today, instead of a history of the ancient female religions that were celebrated for thousands of years, we are most familiar with the creation story of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from Eden courtesy of Eve, making her, you know, responsible for the downfall of mankind from Paradise.
