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Even Caitlin Clark and Iowa — not exactly slowpokes themselves — couldn’t keep up.

It revealed that gaps in state law and slowpoke regulators allowed health care workers accused of abusing patients to keep providing care.

One possible explanation for the Milky Way’s stellar slowpokes is that our galaxy is extraordinarily deficient in dark matter, the invisible substance thought to serve as gravitational scaffolding for cosmic structures.

“This is a very mortifying situation,” Fisher Ames of Massachusetts said then, at Federal Hall in New York City, while waiting for his slowpoke colleagues.

“It’s a tight track and we’re going out first and I catch the slowpokes all the time.”