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How did this house blow its top?

FAST FACT: Scientists have mapped the complete genomes of baker's yeast (Saccharomyces Saccharomyces: see yeast.  cerevisiae), the roundworm roundworm, another name for a nematode. See phylum Nematoda.  (Caenorhabditis elegans Caenorhabditis elegans (IPA: [ˌsiːnəʊræbˈdaɪtɪs ˈelegænz]) is a free-living nematode (roundworm), about 1 mm in length, which lives in temperate soil environments. ), and the fruit fly (Drosophila Drosophila: see fruit fly.
drosophila

Any member of about 1,000 species in the dipteran genus Drosophila, commonly known as fruit flies but also called vinegar flies. Some species, particularly D.
 melanogaster).

[TABULAR DATA NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. ]

Bat Alert by Nick Ruggia, age 14

ACROSS
 (*)1. Underwater bat
       food
 (*)4. What fruit bats
       drop

 (*)8. Larynx: voice __
    9. Card
   10. Not out
   13. Sticky substance
   15. Shining
(*)18. Bats use these to
       fly
(*)20. Where some bats
       roost
   22. Country with 50
       states (abbr.)
   25. Sunshine state
       (abbr.)
   26. Company head
       (abbr.)
(*)28. __ bat detector
(*)30. Bats are __
       blooded
(*)31. Bats "see" with
       these

DOWN

(*) 1. Bats' way around
    2. Simultaneous
       broadcast (abbr.)
    3. Bunny move
    5. Each (abbr.)
(*) 6. This tells bats
       where to go
    7. The Diamond State
       (abbr.)
   11. Not yes
   12. Breakfast food
   14. "O" in IOU
   15. Answer (abbr.)
   16. Louisiana State
       University (abbr.)
(*)17. Echolocating sea
       mammal (pl.)
   19. Institute for
       Environmental
       Studies (abbr.)
   21. Girl's name
   23. Team 49ers' city
       (abbr.)
(*)24. Number of
       offspring bats bear
       per year
   26. Clockwise (abbr.)
   27. The Beaver State
   29. Associate in Arts
       (abbr.)


(*)Starred clues relate to puzzle's theme.

What is it? Candy corn

Explain This In July 2000, a tornado ripped this roof off a farm building in Granite Falls, Minnesota Granite Falls is a city located Yellow Medicine and Chippewa Counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 3,070 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Yellow Medicine County6. . The roof landed in a cornfield.

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Optical Delusion?

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Date:Oct 16, 2000
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