Ten Minute Sabbatical

Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.

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It is completely illogical to place someone who has promoted actions contrary to scientific consensus in a position to manage programs that are essentially of scientific training.

Neglected diseases like diarrheal illnesses, tuberculosis, malaria, and pneumonia kill thousands of people every day. But because they have been doing so for decades, they simply don’t catalyze the same urgency we see in the face of a novel, fast-moving outbreak.

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4. Hardest part of being human?
8. Summer Triangle star with Altair and Vega
9. Spiral cavity in the bony labyrinth
10. Dendrochronology marker (2 wds.)
11. Unit derived from the Latin for “twelfth”
14. Notable March event (2 wds.)
16. Organ of the integumentary system
17. Like the gardens of Xochimilco
20. Didactyl, as certain sloths (hyph.)
21. Eggs and sperm of aquatic animals
22. Testable scientific explanation
23. Groupers in a group, say

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