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...perpetrator’s expulsion from the community. PLoS ONE will have all of these self-regulating mechanisms, plus an additional financial disincentive for scientific delinquents: Authors have to pay to publish.We do not claim that online communities should replace more institutionalized peer-review processes in a comprehensive manner. Prestigious journals such as Science or Nature give groundbreaking scientific results the esteem they deserve. But by and large, anxieties about open-publication online journals are unfounded. Even Nature allowed the public to judge papers submitted last summer in tandem with traditional peer-review. Initiatives such as PLoS ONE will help...
...Lebanese conflict, audience members questioned whether Israel should shoulder some culpability too. Olivia S. Shabb ’08 asked whether the capture of two Israeli soldiers justified the destruction that followed. “There is nothing that explains or excuses huge loss of life in that manner,” Abercrombie-Winstanley said. Adding that she was not going to “second guess” Israel’s decisions, she blamed Hezbollah for the start of the conflict. She described Israel’s actions as part of a “long-standing record...
...balance every month, says Levin. Watch out for that one. Some companies already close accounts that are inactive, which can lower your credit rating. And if your credit rating falls, some card issuers will raise your interest rate to punitive levels--even if you are paying in a timely manner...
...dandified aplomb and thoughtful sincerity—and the excellent support provided by characters like Cecil Graham (Zachary B. S. Sniderman ’09), make the production a thoroughly beguiling one. Despite some imperfections, the cast and crew do remarkable justice to Oscar Wilde’s particular manner of laying humans’ vices bare, one quotable line at a time...
...Despite its anti-American rhetoric, Hamas has until now refrained from any known terror strikes against the U.S. - only Israel is in its bomb sights, Hamas says. That position has been reinforced by the argument of more moderate elements in Hamas that if the movement acted in a reasonable manner, the U.S. and Europe would eventually be persuaded to release funds and foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority blocked last March after Hamas assumed office...