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by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
We know this is a brain disease. Any idea that this is just willpower and you ought to be able to get over it is completely contrary to what we know on the basis of [the] strongest medical evidence.
—National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, speaking with the USA Today editorial board about the agency’s plan to research treatments for opioid addiction (October 3)
You can think of gender as a variable and if you leave it out, you potentially miss something important in scientific research with human outcomes.
—Stanford University historian Londa Schiebinger,
who with collaborators recently published a study in Nature Human Behavior that proposed ways in which institutions can encourage diversity in terms of both gender and new...
| ACROSS 1. Nostril in the top of 1-Down’s head 5. Parsley, sage, rosemary, or thyme 9. Opposite of general, to anesthesiologists 10. Red plant stalk, or donnybrook 11. Anatomical source of ill humor? 12. Douglas Hofstadter’s ___, Escher, Bach 14. Exam on which a normal score is about 100 (2 wds.) 16. Falcon, or sorcerer of legend 19. “Bear” that’s actually a marsupial 21. Casabas, e.g. 24. A vein in the neck 25. Exhibiting foliage 26. Neighbor of the radius 27. Larynx, colloquially (2 wds.) |
| DOWN 1. Male whale 2. Back of the head or skull 3. Double’s antithesis 4. Konrad who pioneered ethology 6. Antelope with spirally twisted horns 7. Songbird classified as Dolichonyx oryzivorus 8. Australian parakeet, affectionately 13. Rainforest mammal with a prehensile tail 15. Resisting chemical change 17. Greek script deciphered by Michael Ventris (2 wds.) 18. Subject of a sonogram 20. Roughly 1 percent of the earth’s atmosphere 22. State flower of New Hampshire 23. Wildcat with tufted ears |
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