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	The Effects of Age on Stress Levels and Its Affect on Overall Performance
		Previous studies have shown that there is no relationship between an individual’s stress level and his or her performance on an evaluation, but the age of the individual was not a variable considered in past research.
		Stress does not always have a negative consequence; low levels of stress can be motivational and very beneficial experiences contributing to the growth and development of the person.
		Muscle tension indicates stress; for example, it is common for people to react to the stress of anger by clenching their teeth and generally tensing up.
	www.aabss.org /journal2003/Schultz.htm (5048 words)

	Stress and duress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stress and duress is a euphemistic term which has been used by the United States Administration as a label to describe interrogation techniques authorised at Cabinet level, for use by United States security forces on detainees who are thought to be a threat the United States of America, its citizens, or its armed forces.
		These techniques are of a type which cause "inhuman and degrading treatment" but are not thought to cause "suffering of the particular intensity and cruelty implied by the word torture".
		Although not binding on the US in any way, this ruling is a useful indicator of international judicial views on the "stress and duress" methods authorised for use by the US administraion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stress_and_duress (541 words)

	"An open letter to my sisters: why don't we get help for depression?" American Journal of Health Studies - Find Articles
		It is the result of abnormalities in the brain that appear to be caused by extended periods of stress and duress, from which the brain is unable to reestablish its normal mood.
		Stress causes the release of "stress hormones", including cortisol, serving as a trigger to help the body respond appropriately to stress and then to overcome it.
		However, chronic stress and the repeated exposure of the brain to "stress hormones" can lead to changes in the body which do not return to normal when the stress is removed.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0CTG/is_2_17/ai_85590920 (876 words)

	Page e4 Health, Smoking, and Stress
		Stress is the result of events that cause preoccupation reducing external awareness and making activities subject to distraction.
		An emergency is a stress situation and the instruction you receive seeks to train you to react in a planned preconceived manner.
		Excessive stress is shown by anxiety, irritability, excitability, impulsiveness, aggressiveness, overreaction, insomnia, depression, inattention, loss of memory, self-doubt, fatigue, trembling, weakness, diarrhea, indigestion, need to urinate, migraines, cold sweats, smoking or overeating.
	whitts.alioth.net /pagee4Health.htm (10387 words)

	Effects of bullying and stress: symptoms, injury to physical health and mental health, anxiety, fatigue, IBS, trauma, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stress is not the employee's inability to cope with excessive workloads and the unreasonable demands of incompetent and bullying managers; stress is a consequence of the employer's failure to provide a safe system of work as required by the UK Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
		Stress is now officially the Number One cause of sickness absence although 20% of employers still do not regard stress as a health and safety issue.
		In repeated bullying, the stress response prepares the body to respond physically when what is required is an employer-wide anti-bullying policy, knowledge of bullying motivations and tactics, assertive responses to defend ourselves against unwarranted verbal and physical harassment, and effective laws against bullying as an ultimate deterrent or arbiter when all else fails.
	www.bullyonline.org /stress/health.htm (3509 words)

	"Stress and Duress" Techniques Rejected
		Some Administration officials have argued that the "stress and duress" techniques being used by the US are not so severe as to be illegal.
		Indeed, in an amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court on February 19, 2002 the Bush Justice Department argued forcefully that this conduct was clearly unconstitutional.
		In other words, the Bush Administration is already on record stating that some of the basic "stress and duress" techniques being used by U.S. interrogators constitute "cruel and unusual punishment."
	www.phrusa.org /past_news/iraq051004_stressandduress.html (716 words)

	Spero Forum - Baptist, Protestant, and Catholic Discussion - Capital Punishment
		The CIA has used "stress and duress" techniques on al-Qaida suspects held at secret overseas detention centres, as well as contracting out their interrogation to foreign intelligence agencies known to routinely use torture, said a report published yesterday.
		Stress and duress is something that does require training because it can get out of hand and become torture and that's what the CIA manuals teach.
		with special terms like "stress and duress" coined for sleep deprivation and psychological manipulation (which are definitely forms of torture, regardless of what anyone's "rule book" says).
	www.speroforum.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2995 (4949 words)

	Central Asia Project
		You should follow through on these announcements by completely banning the use of the "stress and duress" tactics and incommunicado detention throughout the world.
		The choice is whether you dismiss them as the actions of "a few bad apples" while continuing an interrogation and detention system that is cruel and illegal, or act forcefully to end the "stress and duress" system of incommunicado interrogation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, or anywhere that people are held in U.S. custody.
		Immediately ban "stress and duress" interrogation and take immediate action to insure that all interrogation and detention practices are fully consistent with international human rights and humanitarian law.
	www.ilhr.org /ilhr/regional/centasia/protests/abu_graib.htm (1717 words)

	Time to Stop 'Stress and Duress' (Human Rights Watch, 13-5-2004)
		They are the predictable result of the Bush administration's policy of permitting "stress and duress" interrogation techniques.
		The sexual abuse of prisoners, despicable as it is, is a logical consequence of a system put in place after Sept. 11, 2001, to ratchet up the pain, discomfort and humiliation of prisoners under interrogation.
		The more stressful techniques must be approved by senior commanders, but all are permitted.
	www.hrw.org /english/docs/2004/05/13/usint8578.htm (774 words)

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		Those who refuse to cooperate inside this secret CIA interrogation center are sometimes kept standing or kneeling for hours, in fl hoods or spray-painted goggles, according to intelligence specialists familiar with CIA interrogation methods.
		At times they are held in awkward, painful positions and deprived of sleep with a 24-hour bombardment of lights -- subject to what are known as "stress and duress" techniques.
		At a Sept. 26 joint hearing of the House and Senate intelligence committees, Cofer Black, then head of the CIA Counterterrorist Center, spoke cryptically about the agency's new forms of "operational flexibility" in dealing with suspected terrorists.
	lawofwar.org /Washington_Post_torture_26_Dec_2002.htm (452 words)

	Stress and Duress: Drawing the Line between Interrogation and Torture -Global Policy Forum - International Justice
		Six weeks after the death of two Afghan prisoners in US custody at Bagram air base in Afghanistan was announced, the United States has still not answered the disturbing questions raised about the interrogation methods used on detainees in the campaign against terrorism.
		A widely-noted article in the Washington Post in December alleged that US agents at the CIA detention center at Bagram use interrogation techniques known as “stress and duress” tactics or “torture lite”.
		According to the article, prisoners are sometimes kept standing or kneeling for hours in fl hoods or spray-painted goggles, or held in awkward, painful positions and deprived of sleep with a 24-hour bombardment of lights.
	www.globalpolicy.org /intljustice/general/2003/0424duress.htm (1172 words)

	Is Torture Ever Justified? excerpted from the book Tainted Legacy 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights by William Schulz
		"Stress and duress" included such things as keeping fl-hooded prisoners standing or kneeling for hours, forcing them to maintain "awkward, painful positions," and depriving them of sleep with a twenty-four hour bombardment of light.
		That was because Americans were frightened and the government had led them to believe that the applicahon of "stress and duress" was one important way it could help to make them safer.
		It was not, presumably, that the suspects were being tortured for gratuitous or sadistic reasons or to make a political point, or for revenge or to set an example that would discourage other terrorists from following the terrorist path-all motivations that have prompted other instances of torture around the world.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Human_Rights/Torture_Justified_TL.html (1547 words)

	Fight stress with lifestyle changes
		Studies have shown that environment, overall health, and emotional state all are leading contributors to the physical duress caused by stress.
		By paying attention to how I felt physically whenever I felt my stress level rising, I was able to take some of the more achievable advice on reducing stress and apply it to my situation.
		While you may be skeptical about the improvements you will experience, dozens of organizations exist to help reduce stress and to educate people on changes that are designed to help your body cope with situational strife, and they all offer similar advice.
	builder.com.com /5100-6404_14-5035286.html (1122 words)

	Evidence Grows of More Widespread Abuse - by Jim Lobe
		"Stress and duress" interrogation techniques — in which detainees are forced to stand or assume other positions in ways that induce physical stress or pain over time — have also been often applied against Iraqi and Afghan detainees, according to reports by rights groups and the
		HRW released a statement Thursday charging that mistreatment and abuse of detainees in Afghanistan have been "systemic," and called for the Pentagon to immediately open detention facilities under its control to independent monitors, an appeal in which Amnesty joined in a separate statement Thursday.
		Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal, who were returned to Britain in March, said detainees were subject to various "stress and distress" and sensory distortion techniques; forced to strip completely for several days for alleged misbehavior; and sometimes left naked and chained to the floor in the presence of women.
	www.antiwar.com /lobe/?articleid=2573 (1210 words)

	We Must Remain the Shining City Upon a Hill - by Sen. Richard Durbin
		"Stress and duress" tactics clearly constitute torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.
		The Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation characterizes "stress and duress" as illegal physical and mental torture.
		The United States is not alone in condemning "torture lite." In Israel, a country that has grappled with terrorism for decades, the Supreme Court held that "stress and duress" techniques violate international law and are absolutely prohibited.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/durbin.php?articleid=2832 (3259 words)

	Southwestern Medicine: A Win Over Stress Beats TMD in the Clench
		He said patients -- the teen-ager anxious about a romance, the bored retiree, the banker struggling for a promotion -- are swirling (often unknowingly) in a circle of stress.
		Under duress, they clench their teeth, which causes muscle fatigue, which causes spasms, which causes pain, which causes more stress.
		For these patients, Sinn may recommend a mouth splint to prohibit clenching, muscle relaxants to relieve the spasms, prescription or over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medications to alleviate the pain, and physical therapy to help restore proper movement.
	www.swmed.edu /home_pages/publish/magazine/tmd.html (704 words)

	Abu Ghraib, prison torture, military - FCNL
		Some experienced interrogators flatly declare that detainees who are tortured eventually say anything their interrogators want to hear, whether it is true or not, just to make the torture stop.
		On the other hand, U.S. military intelligence claims that its post-September 11, 2001, use of mass roundups, secret detentions, and "stress and duress" techniques has saved lives by eliciting valuable (classified) information that has been used to thwart further death and destruction.
		And the lesson from all those nations' experiences is that the losses that accompany abandoning the rule of law are not balanced by alleged success in eliciting information.
	www.fcnl.org /civil_liberties/torture.htm (4255 words)

	CIA interrogations verge on inhumane: paper -DAWN - International; December 27, 2002
		WASHINGTON, Dec 26: CIA interrogators have been using “stress and duress” techniques on captured enemies in Afghanistan that blur the line between legal and inhumane, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
		Captives who refused to cooperate were sometimes kept standing or kneeling for hours, in fl hoods or spray-painted goggles, the Post said, citing intelligence specialists said to be familiar with CIA interrogation methods.
		At times they were held in awkward, painful positions and deprived of sleep with a 24-hour bombardment of lights — subject to what are known as “stress and duress” techniques, the paper said.
	www.dawn.com /2002/12/27/int2.htm (437 words)

	IslamiCity.com - Open Detention Facilities to Stop Torture
		Human Rights Watch also called on Secretary Rumsfeld to ban all "stress and duress" interrogation techniques in all U.S. detention facilities anywhere in the world.
		"Stress and duress" techniques, such as extended sleep and sensory deprivation, forced standing, binding detainees in painful positions, and holding detainees naked, are explicitly designed to inflict pain and humiliation.
		"By ratcheting up the detainee's pain and discomfort, 'stress and duress' techniques almost invariably lead to far more serious mistreatment," said Roth.
	www.islamicity.com /Articles/articles.asp?ref=HR0405-2305 (540 words)

	IRAQ: Interrogation and Torture - Council on Foreign Relations
		Were the alleged abuses at Abu Ghraib normal “stress and duress” techniques?
		At issue are interrogation techniques often referred to as “stress and duress” or “coercive” practices used in some interrogations in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq, as well as, some experts say, other U.S.-run detention centers in the war on terror.
		On the other hand, some human rights advocates charge that the use of more moderate “stress and duress techniques” created an atmosphere that allowed the abuses to occur.
	www.cfr.org /publication/7669/iraq.html (2154 words)

	Steve Weissman \| Torture - From J.F.K. to Baby Bush
		In the early 1960s, the Kennedy Administration made Stress and Duress a specialty of J.F.K.'s much-beloved Green Berets, and torture became common during much of the Vietnam War.
		Kennedy and Johnson also led the way in having U.S. troops teach "Stress and Duress" to client armies throughout the world, notably at the School of the Americas, which has trained some of the hemisphere's worst torturers.
		From Camelot on, government lawyers have exhausted themselves trying to explain why Stress and Duress was not really torture, you know, but only Torture-Lite.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/printer_123104A.shtml (1334 words)

	Time to Stop 'Stress and Duress'
		QUOTE: The sexual humiliation of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison is so shocking that it risks overshadowing other U.S. interrogation practices that are also reprehensible.
		Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, argues that the US should end all forms of “stress and duress” interrogation tactics.
		He also states that the prison abuse in Abu Ghraib should not blind us from “stress and duress” techniques, because the later are more widespread in the military than the former.
	www.fairness.com /resources/one?resource_id=16026 (123 words)

	Stress and Duress, Tim Grieve, Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth ThinkingPeace
		When he first saw the photographs of Iraqi prisoners suffering abuse at the hands of American soldiers, Kenneth Roth was shocked but not surprised.
		Our understanding is that the military has adopted a 72-point matrix of different forms of stress that can be imposed upon a detainee as part of "stress and duress" interrogation techniques...
		Obviously, while there is always some pressure inherent in being questioned or detained, this idea of ratcheting up the pain in various ways is a dangerous process that, I fear, almost inevitably will bring the U.S. government over the line into the area of prohibited cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment or punishment.
	www.thinkingpeace.com /pages/arts2/arts195.html (2382 words)

	IFHHRO - 02/28/2003
		In its 12.26.02, article "US Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations," the Washington Post published allegations that the CIA used "stress and duress tactics" to interrogate Al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, at the US Military base on the British Indian Ocean Territory of Diego Garcia, and at other undisclosed locations.
		On the 26th December 2002 the Washington Post published allegations that CIA agents had used “stress and duress tactics” to interrogate Al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, at the US Military base on the British Indian Ocean Territory of Diego Garcia and at other undisclosed locations.
		The article also alleges that US Intelligence forces are cooperating with foreign intelligence services known to torture detainees, by “rendering” terrorist suspects into their hands for interrogation.
	www.phrusa.org /healthrights/ifhhro_022803.html (321 words)

	U.S. State Department Criticism of "Stress and Duress" Interrogation Around the World (Human Rights Watch April 16, ...
		On December 26, the Washington Post reported that persons held at a CIA interrogation center in Bagram air base in Afghanistan were being subjected to "stress and duress" techniques such as standing or kneeling for hours, being held in awkward, painful positions, sleep deprivation through use of blinding lights, and hooding.
		In response to a Human Rights Watch letter, the Bush administration stated that "U.S. policy condemns and prohibits torture," but it failed to address the specific reports of mistreatment at Bagram.
		However, the U.S. State Department has itself condemned as torture or other inhuman treatment many of the "stress and duress" techniques now allegedly being used by U.S. intelligence agencies.
	www.hrw.org /press/2003/04/stressnduress.htm (596 words)

	The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : That dreaded T-Word
		The Pentagon and CIA call it "stress and duress." The New York Times leads the media search for softer synonyms.
		In one report in The New York Times (May 7) I did find a clear use of the word `torture' to describe what the Americans were doing.
		It was all stress and duress at Guantanamo.
	www.hindu.com /2004/05/30/stories/2004053003431000.htm (1714 words)

	The Forensics Files
		The Bush administration, while it condemns torture and denies using it as a tool, also admits to using what has been deemed “stress and duress” techniques on some suspects while transferring others to allied countries with, to put it mildly, a more liberal attitude toward the use of torture.
		Finally, the United States government condemns the use of torture to obtain information, but often uses "stress and duress" techniques to obtain information from detainees at Guantanimo Bay and, oftentimes, sends them to other countries to be tortured.
		This is empirically denied, the US uses stress and duress techniques now but are not torturing non-terror suspects.
	www.extemptopicanalysis.com /forensics_files.htm (10624 words)

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