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BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHvON

I feel like healing is coming.

I hope this marks the beginning to the end of a very painful time in

our history.

—Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, after being among the first Americans to receive the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer (December 14)

Science and filmmaking are very close in one respect. It has to do with discovery, and it has to do with a sense of awe. If I didn’t have a sense of awe in every single one of my films, I wouldn’t work in this profession. And the same thing you find among scientists. They have exactly this incredible excitement.

—Werner...
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6. Lily family member grown in Lisse, Holland 7 Japanese bean also called red mung
8. Tool providing a lawn with more oxygen
9. Grassy plain with few trees
11. Plants having no roots, stems, or leaves 12 Poison associated with 11-Across
14. Narcissus native to Spain and Portugal 16 Search for water with a "witching stick"
17. Inflorescence like a parasol
19. Tiny fruit of the duckweed family
21. Mexican sunflower's typical hue
22. Succulent yielding mescal 

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1. Volcano on whose slopes Sicilian milkvetch grows
2. Substance that promotes blossoming
3. Leaflike bract that anagrams to "the sap"
4. Shrub in a subgenus of rhododendrons
5. Mallow family herb with edible pods
7. Department established by Abraham Lincoln in 1862
10. Variety of daisy also known as marguerite
11. Pear from a French region
13. Wild apple with a Midwestern state in its name (2 wds.)
15. Situated on high ground, as some white asters
16. Abaxial, as the lower surface of a leaf
18. Spiky seed pod
20. The Garden of Earthly Delights setting 

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