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1. A lot 6. Hot spot 10. ___ Cooper, Am. actor 14. An inverted cir- cumflex diacritic mark 15. ___ vera 16. Fencing sword 17. Foe 18. Pink, as a steak 19. H.S. class 20.Measure of anti- knock properties of gasoline (2 wds) 23. Chocolate trees 25. Successful run- ners, for short 26. Type of beds with curtains and canopy (hyphenated) 30. Halo, e.g. 31. Chill 32. Bean counter, for short 35. Clash 36. Domestic animal skin disease 38. At liberty 39. ___ el Amarna, Egypt 40. Bite 41. Back 42. Certainly


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46. Have a sudden inspiration? 49. Leisurely walks 50. Irish version of burgoo (2 wds) 54. Aquatic plant 55. Palm berry 56. Blotto 60. Chowder morsel 61. Detective's need 62. Quench 63. "For Your ___ Only," Bond film 64. Coastal raptor 65. ___ Island National Monument


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1. "___ Loves You," Beatles song 2. Jail, slangily 3. Trick taker, often 4.Member of Obama's party 5. Airline porter 6. Ride, so to speak 7. Brio 8. Elders' teachings 9. Bad look 10. Affect (2 wds) 11. Fourth month 12. Controls, symboli- cally


13. Burglar 21. "___ bad!" 22. ___ line (major axis of an elliptical orbit) 23. Two-door 24. Acoustic 26. Certain protest 27. Argentine dance 28. Baby carrier? 29.Morgue, for one 32. Belief 33. Rings 34. Ethereal 36. "Gee whiz!" 37. "Go on ..." 38.Voluntary 40. S. Am. Indian of Brazil and Paraguay 43. Advantages 44. Dracula, at times 45. ___ fly 46. Channel cut by heavy rainwater 47. Pond buildup 48. Putdowns 50. Defensive spray 51. Battering wind 52.Maple genus 53. Indian bread 57. Amigo 58. Schuss, e.g. 59. "Absolutely!"


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Encountering life’s speed bumps . . . at high speed


Q.How fast can you hit a speed bump and survive? A. Speed bumps are designed to slow people down, with a 5 mph hit resulting


in a gentle bounce, 20 mph delivering a sizeable jolt, says former NASA roboticist Randall Munroe in “What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.” As medical journals attest, people are occasionally injured, especially if “in a hard seat in the back of a bus on a poorly maintained road.” Two things generally protect car occupants: the tires and the suspension. “No


matter how fast you hit a speed bump, unless the bump is large enough to hit the frame of the car, enough of the jolt will be absorbed by these two systems so that you probably won’t be hurt.” Yet absorbing such shock may well explode the tires or do other damage. The typical sedan has a top speed of about 130 mph, enough for a typical 3-4


inch bump to cause the driver to lose control and crash. A quite different scenario involves a car going so fast it starts to generate lift, which can rapidly become substantial. “Among NASCAR fans, there’s frequently talk of a 200-mph liftoff speed if the car starts to spin,” followed by a spectacular backflip. Look out! “The bottom line is that in the range of 150-300


By Bill Sones & Rich


Sones, PhD For the Sun Times


STRANGE BUT


naked mole-rats and hooded seals? A. For the sake of science, Olav Oftedal of the Smithsonian Environmental


Resources Center has milked bats, bears and hundreds of naked mole-rat queens, notes Susan Milius of “Science News” magazine. The mole rats were especially intriguing in that “unlike nearly every other mammal on earth, the burdens of reproduction and milk feeding of young are placed solely on a single queen and are not shared among the females of the colony” (Smithsonian Science). Amazingly, a colony’s top female can give birth to more than 900 offspring in a lifetime, meeting their nursing needs “by producing about half of her body weight in milk each day!” Studying the naked mole rat’s milk fascinated both Oftedal and Wendy Hood of Auburn University, who determined that in both fat and water content it is close to that of cows and human breast milk at 3- 5%, yet it is far skinnier than that of house mice at 27% and blue whales at 41%. Rhinos have virtually fat-free milk. And some seal milks top 60% fat, meaning that they’re “something like four times richer than Ben & Jerry’s ice cream,” Hood says.


TRUE And no, she did not sip the milk samples out of curiosity: “If I were to


taste it, that would be that much less we’d have to analyze.” Q.True or False: “Sleep drunkenness” is having had too much to drink and


nodding off into a woozy, dreamlike state. A. False. This sounds plausible but actually reverses the true sense of sleep


drunkenness, “when the body beats the brain out of bed,” says Laura Sanders in “Science News” magazine. Also called “confusional arousal,” it’s that hazy world of awakening and not knowing where you are, or having trouble talking, or trying to answer the phone when the alarm clock rings. Plenty of people fall into sleep drunkenness on a regular basis, as reported in


the journal “Neurology.” By one tally, some 15% of Americans have at least one of these episodes every year — many suffering more than one episode a week. “Such episodes were linked with other sleep problems, anti-depressant use and mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder or panic disorder.” (Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at strangetrue@cs.com)


mph, a typical sedan would lift off the ground, tumble and crash... before you even hit the bump. If you kept the car from taking off, the force of the wind at those speeds would strip away the hood, side panels and windows. At higher speeds, the car itself would be disassembled and might even burn up like a spacecraft reentering the atmosphere.”


Q.How do the milks we buy at the grocery


store — fat-free, 3%, etc. — compare with milk from Mom and other mammals such as rhinos,


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