The Week contest: Homework pain
This week's question: An exasperated mother in China suffered a heart attack after repeatedly — and unsuccessfully — attempting to help her 9-year-old understand his math homework; she was rushed to the hospital and subsequently recovered. Please come up with a medical term to describe a homework-induced health crisis that a parent might suffer.
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THE WINNER: "Arrhythmetic"
Cork Marcheschi, Pacifica, California
SECOND PLACE: "Fibromyalgebra"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
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THIRD PLACE: "Low-grade fever"
Michael H. Keedy, Alamogordo, New Mexico
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Stress fractions"
Thomas Mistele, Flemington, New Jersey
"Flashcardiac arrest"
Corinne Duerkop, Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin
"A B C-eizure"
Robert Theriault, Longview, Washington
"Reading, Writing, Arrhythmia"
Catherine Pomiecko, Natick, Massachusetts
"Common Core-onary"
Barb Leonard, Warrenville, Illinois
"Triggermometry"
Megan McLachlan, Appleton, Wisconsin
"Strife of pi"
Robert Taub, Tacoma, Washington
"Irritable vowel syndrome"
Ivan Kershner, Salem, South Carolina
"A-B-C-D-E-K-G"
Jim Collins, Huntington, Indiani
"Historionics"
Barbara Farkas, Chicago
"The fear of all sums"
Ernie Hanson, Madison, Wisconsin
"Dead poets anxiety"
Paul McFadden, Hampton, New Hampshire
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