There is a slowly emerging recognition within the military that those combined pressures affect the troops who battle the war from afar in some of the same ways that strain forces on the front lines.

NPR: AP IMPACT: Combat Stress Felt Far From Front Lines

In doing so, he brings the giants of modernism down to earth, observing their sweat and strain as if in the same room.

ECONOMIST: The wonders and mess of the 20th century on the page

When doctors carried out throat swabs from 82 other children at the centre, they found that ten were carrying the same multi-drug resistant strain of bacteria found in the two ill children.

BBC: Nursery

Derek Thompson over at the Atlatnic has a nice piece about how productivity and relative prices have changed over the years in the US. The story is much the same elsewhere of course although in Europe the tax burden has taken much of the strain.

FORBES: America's Productivity Crisis

But in September, two independent groups reported that the same strain of mice, bred from animals furnished by the Brose lab, do not show any social deficits.

FORBES: Mouse Behavior From Autism Studies Not Reproducible

In 2003 alone, the Frenchwoman has missed the Australian Open with a right knee problem, and pulled out of two other events first with a right abductor strain and then the same problem in her left leg.

BBC: Roland Garros record

Indeed, Wolbachia's genes are so manipulative that they can convert male insects to females, kill males, induce virgin birth in females and even cause the offspring of males to die unless they carry the very same strain of Wolbachia as the father.

WSJ: Matt Ridley on Selfish DNA | Mind & Matter

The Indian government is in a bind as it doesn't want to strain relations with its southern neighbor, but at the same time also doesn't want to displease Tamil parties.

WSJ: India Party Pulls Support From Government