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QUOTESSpeaking of Science
ACROSS- Quercus palustris (2 wds.)
- Edison: “The ___ of Menlo Park”
- Amber, frankincense, or myrrh
- Lab activity
- Masticating malady, for short
- Seed cone of a gymnosperm
- Medulla oblongata’s location (2 wds.)
- Change, especially to a higher form
- “Science Friday” network
- Tropical grassy plain
- Talc’s place on the Mohs scale
- Typically anadromous fish
- Feature of Hale-Bopp?
DOWN- Mineral known as fool’s gold
- Rhinoplasty, informally (2 wds.)
- Some who struggle with information
retrieval - Measures of brightness?
- The A in CAT scan
- What amylase helps us do
- Arachnid that may have urticating bristles
- Collectible for Frohawk or Nabokov
- 12-Down dependent on Asclepias plants
- Period of little evolutionary change
- Nuclear particle
- The middle ear’s incus
- Opposite of paleo-
Answer key on page 5123 45678910 11 1213 1415 1617 18 1920 21 2223 24This is a health crisis of epic
proportions. I am more troubled
than ever before, and in part, my
concern is rooted in the reality that
it will take so much more for us to
slow the spread given the high rate
of community spread.
—Director of the Los Angeles County Department
of Public Health Barbara Ferrer, in a statement
released amid a steep increase in severe COVID-19
cases in the city (January 6)I think it is important that
we name these appropriately
and we don’t call these the
South African variant or the
UK variant. We need to use
the names appropriately
because we don’t want to
stigmatise where these
variants have been identified.
—Maria Van Kerkhove, an infectious disease
epidemiologist and the World Health Organization’s
COVID-19 technical lead, during a press conference
partially focused on emerging, highly infections
variants of SARS-CoV-2 (January 5)Note: The answer grid will include every letter of the alphabet.
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