Word: strained
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...Indeed there was. In a paper published in Nature last week, a team from Johns Hopkins and Massachusetts General Hospital reported that by "knocking out" a gene essential to the synthesis of nitric oxide, an important neurotransmitter in the brains of mice and men, they had inadvertently created a strain of extraordinarily ferocious male rodents (females were unaffected...
...film tells the story of Camille (Pascale Bussieres), a professor at a Protestant college who is engaged to Martin (Henry Czerny), a trusted minister and fellow professor. While Camille and Martin have been involved for three years, their relationship is put under strain when they are chosen as candidates for co-chaplaincy of the college. As "career Christians" they are urged to get married so that their professional union will be free from ethical reproach...
...government rolled into its second day of partial paralysis, Gingrich began showing signs of strain. Pressed by reporters at a Wednesday breakfast to explain why he was so convinced that a seven-year timetable was the right one for balancing the budget, the Speaker offered a one-word response: "Intuition.'' (This was a sharp contrast to his reasoned response to the same question by Time last September, when he explained that he'd settled on that time frame after consulting with former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, banker Pete Peterson and others.) Then he devoted much of the remaining time...
...roam New Hampshire are the descendants of 25 individuals trapped in New York's mountains in 1975 and resettled. A similar program, begun in 1972 in the Berkshires, has given Massachusetts a thriving population of 10,000 turkeys. (The Butterballs in the Safeway freezers, incidentally, are descendants of a strain of wild Mexican turkeys domesticated by the Aztecs and taken by Spaniards to turkeyless Europe, then brought back to the New World. Wild turkeys taste pretty much the same--fewer chemicals, more satisfaction--but lack fat, so they profit from slathering with bacon...
...white contamination suits circle the creature, slicing its chest, sawing its skull in half, removing internal organs. A third takes notes on a sheet of paper. Behind a window, a fourth person watches, hidden by a surgical mask. The only identifiable figure is the humanoid. Its face shows strain, perhaps pain. When the camera recording the event catches the creature's sightless gaze, an eerie poignance fills the chamber...