C8 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST.THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11 , 2021
ACROSS
1 __ cake
5 Floor plan unit
9 App runner
14 “It can’t be
true!”
15 Humorist
Bombeck
16 Like some
whiskey barrels
17 Test version
18 Too much sun,
they say
19 Common chord
20 Wind tunnel
test object
23 Article in
Die Zeit
24 “Saving Fish
From Drowning”
author Tan
25 Snares with
loops
29 1998 Sarah
McLachlan hit
31 Catch
34 Keats work with
the line, “She
dwells with
Beauty — Beau-
ty that must die”
37 Was short
38 TiVo
predecessor
39 Arabic for
“commander”
40 Note instruction
45 Mme.,
in Madrid
46 Vega’s
constellation
47 Drops in
speaking
48 Great Lakes’ __
Canals
49 Summer sign
50 Tart drink
concentrates,
or what’s
literally found
in 20-, 34-
and 40-Across
57 Showy bulb
58 Jazz guitar
lick, say
59 Daily delivery
61 Send over the
moon
62 Play starter
63 One may
be a lot
64 Pitch
adjuster
65 Top-quality
66 Shake offDOWN
1 Cygnet’s father
2 Pampas bird
3 Contrarian
prefix
4 Beast with
tusks
5 Truthful
representation,
in art
6 Instrument
with pipes
7 Sign
8 Stable parent
9 River to
Chesapeake
Bay
10 “The Revenant”
Oscar nominee
Tom
11 Dust Bowl
migrant
12 Sci-fi author
Stephenson
13 Tight __:
football position
21 Lowly laborer
22 Primary
25 Froot __
26 Ugly marketing
battle
27 “Gotta go!”
28 Cream __29 AA, on the NYSE
30 Rats relative
31 Wanderer
32 1955 Dior
innovation
33 “Turn! Turn!
Turn!” band,
with “The”
35 “Oh, when will
they __ learn?”:
Seeger lyric
36 Sphere opener41 Gag reel scene
42 City on the
Rhône
43 Judge
appropriate
44 Wells’ fruit
eaters
48 Hit hard
49 Some lanes
allow only them
50 Humdinger
51 Dashing style52 Many a Mideast
native
53 Board game
pieces
54 Time to put up
lights, briefly
55 A head
56 Equine parent
57 First day of
spring, in Hanoi
60 CommandedLA TIMES CROSSWORD By Roland HugetWEDNESDAY’S LA TIMES SOLUTION© 2021 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 11/11/21kidspost
TODAY’S NEWSNASA on Tuesday said it will delay
putting astronauts on the moon until
2025 at the earliest, missing the dead-
line set by the administration of
President Donald Trump.
The space agency had been aiming
for 2024 for the first moon landing by
astronauts in more than 50 years.
In announcing the delay, NASA
Administrator Bill Nelson said Con-
gress did not provide enough money
to develop a landing system for its
Artemis moon program, and more
money is needed for its Orion cap-
sule. In addition, a legal challenge by
Jeff Bezos’s rocket company, Blue
Origin, stalled work for months on
the Starship lunar landing system
under development by Elon Musk’s
SpaceX. (Bezos owns The Washing-
ton Post.)
Officials said technology for new
spacesuits also needs to be improved
before astronauts can return to the
moon.
NASA’s last moon landing by astro-
nauts occurred during Apollo 17 in- A total of 12 astronauts have
explored the lunar surface.
— Associated Press
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A NASA astronaut planted this U.S.
flag on the moon in 1969. NASA
had hoped to return i n 2024.Astronaut moon
landing delayed
until at least 2025
CHIP SAYS
On this day in 2004, Denver Nuggets player Earl
Boykins scored 32 points. At 5 feet 5 inches, he
is the shortest National Basketball Association
player to score 30 or more points in a game.
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Skies are partly cloudy, winds are
gentle and high temperatures
reach the middle to upper 60s.
ILLUSTRATION BY ESUJIN SHINEKHUU, 7, ARLINGTONBefore the National
Football League (NFL)’s
season started, I wrote
that teams were asking
“What will happen if
our players get infected with the
coronavirus?”
Although more than 93 percent of the
NFL players were vaccinated, some
players, including some very important
ones, were choosing not to get the
vaccine.
Well, it happened. Last Sunday, three-
time most valuable player (MVP) and
superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers
could not play with the Green Bay
Packers in their game against the
Kansas City Chiefs. Rodgers chose not to
get the vaccine and instead got the
virus.
Rodgers may have cost his team a
chance to win. Jordan Love, a much-less
experienced quarterback, took Rodgers’s
place. Love did okay — he completed 19
passes in 34 attempts for one
touchdown — but he didn’t play like
Rodgers. The Packers lost, 13-7.
Rodgers said he had researched the
vaccines before deciding not to get
vaccinated. He also said he was allergic
to an ingredient in two of the vaccines,
although allergic reactions to the
vaccines are rare.
“If the vaccine is so great, then how
come people are still getting covid and
spreading covid and, unfortunately,
dying of covid?” Rodgers said in an
interview after he found out he had
tested positive for the coronavirus.
The Center for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) announced in
September that an unvaccinated
American adult’s chance of dying of
covid-19 in the spring and summer was
more than 11 times greater than
someone who was fully vaccinated. The
unvaccinated adult’s risk of testing
positive for the virus was six times
higher.
I understand that Rodgers or anyone
else has the right to decide not to get the
vaccine. But the Packers pay Rodgers
more than $22 million a year to make
smart decisions. If Rodgers threw passes
that were 6 or 11 times more likely to be
intercepted than the passes of an
average quarterback, he wouldn’t be
playing a long time.
Rodgers’s situation reminds everyone
that just because someone is good at
something, such as throwing a football,
it doesn’t mean they are good at
everything.
Still, you have probably heard
someone say, “everyone is entitled totheir own opinion.” That’s true. But it
doesn’t mean that everyone’s opinion is
equal in value.
If I wanted to find out what was the
best play to call against a zone defense
or how to beat the blitz on third down, I
wouldn’t ask a scientist at the CDC for
their opinion. Their opinion would
probably not be worth much.
I would ask Aaron Rodgers. He has
studied game film for countless hours
and played football at the highest levelsfor 20 years. Rodgers knows football.
In the same way, Rodgers should have
realized that he doesn’t know as much
about viruses as the scientists at the
CDC. They are the pros when it comes to
science. Not Rodgers.
[email protected]Bowen writes the sports opinion column for
KidsPost. He is the author of 26 kids sports
books, including “Gridiron: Stories From 100
Years of the National Football League.”Rodgers should focus on football instead of playing with science
The Score
FRED BOWEN
BRETT DAVIS/USA TODAY SPORTS
Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers s aid he refused to get the coronavirus vaccine based on his research. But
he ignored the advice of top scientists and tested positive for the virus. H e had to sit out Sunday’s game, which his team lost.Adapted from
an online
discussion.Dear Carolyn:
My boyfriend
and I have been
together about
eight months.
He makes me
laugh, he takes care of me,
he’s responsible and kind.
Because of covid, I spent three
weeks with his immediate
family at their home, and it
went really well.
But our timelines don’t
match up. His general stance
is to just wait and take as
much time as possible. He’s- I’m 33 and feel differently.
I feel confident I would be
happy with him long-term. I
am ready to move in, be
engaged within the next year
and a half, and then marriage
and kids. He wants to date for
2-3 more years and then be
married for 2-3 years before
having kids.
I understand that... but if
we don’t start having kids
until I’m 38 or 39, will we be
able to have kids, or more
than one? What kinds of
problems will it cause if it
turns out we waited too long?
He sort of grasps that, but
says he can be really stubborn
and isn’t sure whether he can
change his own mental
timeline.
He also says if we did break
up, it would be something he
regrets “for the rest of his
life.”
If he feels that it would be a
huge mistake, why can’t he
compromise on his timeline a
little? I am willing to
compromise — I also said I
will happily move to his
hometown to be close to his
family for the rest of our lives
(even though I know no one
there), but he seems to be a
little stuck.
— TimelineTimeline: A man who thinks
it’s a good idea to date a 33-
year-old woman for three
more years and then wait
three more years beyond that
to start trying to have
children is a complete
knucklehead. And that’s the
most charitable, printable
word I’ve got.
I started to write an answer
that reflected the intricacies
of your question, then
changed my mind.
If he is committed to the
knucklehead path because he
has defined himself as “really
stubborn” and is so locked
into that self-conception that
he can’t even envision what
you need, then I don’t see this
going well for you.
Stubbornness might be the
single trait most predictive of
a partner’s misery. Life
doesn’t yield, because it’s
bigger than all of us; he
doesn’t yield, because he’s
self-important; guess whatthat means for you.
In the interest of fairness:
At eight months, locking
down a future would be
premature for most couples
(some just fit). But all he had
to say to you was, “I
understand kids are time-
sensitive, but I also won’t
rush — I’m enjoying getting to
know you at the pace we’re
moving now. Please be patient
with me and in return I
promise I won’t drag my feet.”
But instead he gave you
schedule salad. Ugh.
So, my advice: Call the
salad what it is, and give him
one more shot at an adult
answer. If one is not
forthcoming, then, you stay at
your own risk.Re: Timeline: M y ex said the
“regret for the rest of his life”
thing for years. Those
declarations didn’t stop him
from letting me go anyway.
— AnonymousAnonymous: Right. So
manipulative. Like it’s her job
to keep him from
contradicting himself into an
origami crane of sadness.Write to Carolyn Hax at
[email protected]. Get her
column delivered to your inbox
each morning at wapo.st/gethax. Join the discussion live at noon
Fridays at washingtonpost.com/
live-chats.Boyfriend won’t budge on timeline
Carolyn
HaxNICK GALIFIANAKIS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST