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THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES

200

'A November 2006 issue reported a higher risk of recurrent strep throat in kids who haven't had this operation'

a tonsillectomy

400

'A 2004 conference on ways to detect when a country is making these included ideas like robot spy butterflies'

nuclear weapons

600

'Scholars can't read a 10-word column found in Guatemala but know it means these people had writing in 2300 B.C.'

the Mayans

800

'At age 100, the internal organs of these shelled reptiles look just like those of teenage ones'

turtles

1000

'This second fiddle among nucleic acids may be linked to types of leukemia & mental retardation'

ribonucleic acid (RNA)

NCAA TEAM NAME'S THE SAME

200

'Troy University, University of Southern California'

the Trojans

400

'Clemson, University of Missouri'

the Tigers

600

'University of Connecticut, University of Washington'

the Huskies

800

'BYU, University of Houston'

the Cougars

1000

'University of Wyoming, Oklahoma State University'

the Cowboys

WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT

200

'As this state goes so goes Olympia Snowe, who has been a senator from the state since 1995'

Maine

400

'She was the longest-serving Attorney General in the 20th century'

(Janet) Reno

600

'Hattie Caraway, the first elected female senator, represented this state, long the "Land of Opportunity"'

Arkansas

800

'In 2002 this Kennedy family member ran for governor of Maryland; before that, she was Lt. Governor'

Kathleen Kennedy (Townsend)

1000

'Appointed by President Carter to 2 different posts, she was the first African-American woman in the Cabinet'

Patricia Harris

ART STYLE ETYMOLOGY

200

'This name came from the "rebirth" of classical learning after years of intellectual & cultural decline'

renaissance

400

'Initially a perjorative term, this 18th century art period name comes from the French rocaille, "rock-work"'

rococo

600

'In a satirical 1874 review, critic Louis Leroy used this term to describe the loose, inexact manner of painting in a gallery show'

impressionism

800

'The name is this art style that emerged in the late 1950s comes from its use of a certain type of "culture"'

pop art

1000

'Apollinaire described a work by Erik Satie as above ordinary reality, using the word that became this art style'

surrealism

HOUSE OF METAPHORS

200

'Jesus said the temple has been turned into one of these "of thieves"'

a den

400

'Proverbially, "they threw everything at us but" this basin'

the kitchen sink

600

'Look in the basement for a last-place sports team, known by this rhyming term'

cellar dweller

800

'In March 2006 Congress raised this metaphorical limit to around $9 trillion'

the debt ceiling

1000

'To get a breeze indoors, I'll do this 4-word phrase, meaning be receptive to the possibility of changing my mind'

leave the door open