Ten Minute Sabbatical

Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.

Written byEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
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The delta variant is much worse than (what schools dealt with) last year. Cases among kids are going up steeply, and we’ve got to do something more strenuously than we did last year, but the opposite is being put into place.

Time and time again we’re seeing kids return to school and then come home—either after an exposure or sick themselves. The virus sheds for a couple of days before the patient has symptoms. Entire families are suddenly exposed.

1. Neural oscillations, e.g.
4. Impaired ability to move a body part
8. Pull back, as the legs of a tortoise
9. Protein-building type of acid
10. Prefix on conductor
11. Result of a tap on the patellar tendon (2 wds.)
13. Manual part with phalanges
14. DNA chain, for one
17. Involuntary responses
19. Sound of an electric signal
22. Flower named for resembling a 3-Down
23. Unit of electric charge
24. Sites of actin and myosin
25. Early proponent of alternating current

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