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Critics are intrigued by the dramatic story of successful 19 th -century gynecological surgeon Mary Amanda Dixon Jones, whose career was derailed by a smear campaign.
Chatterbox was intrigued by Bruce Orwall's Oct. 6 story in the Wall Street Journal about how the diet-pill maker Metabolife International, Inc., was launching a preemptive strike against ABC News' 20/20 , which is investigating the company.
I have been intrigued now and again, starting as a small boy, by words which seem to act in exactly the opposite fashion, words which point away from their meaning, words which seem almost mischievously to mislead.
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.
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