Ten Minute Sabbatical

Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.

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You have a deeply polarized electorate, an authoritarian president who wants to use the levers of government to give himself an advantage electorally and a pandemic in the middle of the campaign.

The federal government is paying Dr. Bright, one of the nation’s leading experts in pandemic preparedness and response, and an internationally recognized expert in vaccine and diagnostic development, to sit on his hands during a global pandemic that has, to date, killed one million people globally and over 210,000 people within the United States.

7. Order, as of the nucleotide bases in a DNA molecule8. Living in a state of nature9. Shape of a DNA package10. Produce offspring from stocks not related11. Gregor Mendel’s middle name13. Relating to the nose15. Cell formed by the union of two gametes17. Of the vertebrae directly above the pelvis18. Sudden variation in an inheritable characteristic20. Niels who said “A physicist is just ...

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