Word: strained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Smalley worried because he could see a familiar pattern forming, born of his shame over not being able to support his child, the feeling of inadequacy and the strain on his relationship with the baby's mother. He resisted joining the ranks of young black fathers who cut out on their kids because they will not face the pressures of parenthood, but he could not see how to break the cycle -- until he learned from a friend about the Responsive Fathers Program at the Philadelphia Children's Network...
...Bellows made a small series of boxing pictures, of which the most gripping is Stag at Sharkey's (1909), an image of orgiastic energy, the boxers' faces reduced to speed blurs of bloody paint, the bodies starkly gleaming under the carbide lights, locked in a triangle, the strain of muscles so assimilated into the physical life of the paintstrokes that the pigment runs over their contours. Bellows' contemporaries found such images "Hogarthian," but the closer ancestor of Stag at Sharkey's is late Goya. In particular the frieze of spectators' heads, yelling, gaping, sly, stupefied, brings to mind the faces...
...scientists discovered that the prostitutes were more often infected by a strain resembling those types found in Africa. Apparently, it preferred the moist mucosal tissue of the genital organs, making heterosexual transmission easier. The other variety, found in the drug abusers, appeared similar to strains detected in the U.S. and Europe. It thrived on immune cells in the bloodstream. As a result, transmission occurred through the exchange of contaminated blood, as might occur during the sharing of needles or in abrasive anal...
...when he supported a controversial theory that mycoplasma, a bacterium-like organism, is the trigger that turns a slow-growing population of AIDS viruses into mass killers. According to Montagnier, the explosion of sexual activity in the U.S. during the 1970s fostered the spread of a hardy, drug-resistant strain of mycoplasma. HIV, meanwhile, lay dormant in Africa. The AIDS epidemic began, Montagnier speculates, when the two microbes got together, perhaps in Haiti...
...AIDS epidemic is at least partly to blame for a new strain of tuberculosis that is extremely resistant to antibiotics; the diseases seem to progress much faster in patients who have both at the same time. Unlike AIDS, tuberculosis is highly contagious...