Health & Medicine
Norovirus is associated with gastroenteritis, sometimes called this type of “flu”.
Stomach flu
This LAPD unit was created in response to sniper incidents in the 1960s.
SWAT
Sea known as the American Mediterranean (9)
the Caribbean
The College of William & Mary
Williamsburg
Between 1999 & 2007 this educational practice went up nearly 75% & kids don’t even have to get out of their jammies
Home schooling
In ordinary English it means “better”; to a doctor, it means “located higher up on the body”
Superior
The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron is known alliteratively as these “hunters”
Hurricane Hunters
Bohemian central European country (5,8)
the Czech Republic
California Institute of Technology (no, not L.A.)
Pasadena
As the first line of defense against germs, make sure your kids do this frequently, & not just before a meal.
Wash their hands
A technique called the relaxation response opens up blood vessels, easing a systolic type of this 1-word condition.
Hypertension
Pasadena, Texas, population 140,000, has the USA’s largest municipal fire department of this type.
Volunteer
Lacy French city (9)
Chantilly
DePaul University
Chicago
To perform this on kids aged 1 through 8, it’s 2 breaths & 30 one-handed compressions per cycle.
CPR
21 million Americans have this disease of the endocrine system & 6 million of them don’t know it.
Diabetes
The NCIRD (I is for immunization) is part of this 3-letter Atlanta-based organization.
CDC
Muy grande Mexican state (9)
Chihuahua
Oral Roberts University
Tulsa (Oklahoma)
Melanie Bazarte subtitled her “Parenting 101” book “Because Kids Don’t Come With” these.
Instructions
Brookhaven studies the human brain using PET scanning; as in CAT scanning, the “T” is for this method of 3-D imaging.
Tomography
NERC keeps the lights on by monitoring the bulk power system, made up of 3 vast networks called these.
Power grids
Phnom Penh country (8)
Cambodia
The University of Arkansas (main campus)
Fayetteville
Parents who hover too much over their kids have come to be called this type of parents, after a certain aircraft.
Helicopter parents