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...many novel scientific inquiries. And it’s all too easy to underestimate the potential for science this experiment brings.The hermetic process of traditional peer-review does little to facilitate free intellectual dissemination. Scientific manuscripts are typically reviewed by a small number of anonymous experts, who have a throttlehold on whom and what deserves attention. In October 2000, three concerned biomedical scientists founded the Public Library of Science (PLoS), calling on fellow scientists to boycott journals that refused to make full-text papers part of the public domain within six months of publication. Yet although some scientific publishers conformed...
...French wire, loosening ground so that they could quickly dig assault trenches when the signal came to go in; they neatly infiltrated between the fortress' HQ and its southern strong point. Five times last week the French sent out tanks and infantry to ease the throttlehold; they killed 260 Communists and captured 14. At week's end the French launched a strong counterattack, claimed 1,000 casualties. But every night the Red moles came back...
...powerful, and the only successful attack would be a long siege and food blockade. But if the Japanese succeeded in taking the rest of the Indies, they might do something they have long planned on paper and for which they have even formed a company: ignore Singapore's throttlehold on trade with the west by cutting a canal through Thailand's 17-mile-wide Kra Isthmus...
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