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Second, I am intrigued by the idea that McCain and Chelsea may bump into each other any number of times before her father leaves office.
One of the hardest of stones, jade has intrigued the Chinese for at least 3,000 years.
Chatterbox is intrigued, but not surprised, to learn that his friend Mossberg was a-rockin' and a-rollin' from the age of 9. Indeed, Chatterbox finds it impossible to picture the 9-year-old Mossberg as anything other than a precocious know-it-all.
Most readers of VERBATIM would, I am sure, have been as intrigued as I was to discover that a yeoman is “an English landowner often having municipal functions”; that in tennis a ball is net “when it touches the top of the summit [ sic ] of the net separating the two sides”; that a starting block has “compartments in which race-horses are put before the off so they can all leave simultaneously”; and that brick is the English for “a sailing-ship with two masts” --taking part, maybe, in a lofing match: “in a sailing-boat regatta, the action of one of the participants consisting in an attempt to bring one of his rivals head to the wind.”
In any case, a constructive discussion about the pitfalls to be avoided and the benefits to be gained through a transition to open-access publishing would be a worthy first step for any scientific society to take—and PLoS welcomes the questions, comments, and feedback of those who are intrigued by the potential that open access affords and want to learn more.