Word: duress
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...what of the taped January 2007 recantation of Prophethood? It was widely rejected by the FLDS, which saw it as provoked by duress. It came as he was held for trial in the Purgatory Jail in St. George, Utah; law enforcement reported he developed physical weakness from fasting, had ulcers on his knees from prolonged praying and even attempted suicide. In the phone conversation with Bishop William E. Jessop (and taped by prison authorities), Jeffs said that the Lord "has shown me I have not held the priesthood since I was 20 years old, having been immoral with a sister...
...knowledge is out there. Risk experts understand how we could overcome our blind spots and more intelligently hedge our bets. In laboratories and on shooting ranges, there are people who study what happens to bodies and minds under extreme duress. Military researchers conduct elaborate experiments to try to predict who will melt down in a crisis and who will thrive. Police, soldiers, race-car drivers and helicopter pilots train to anticipate the strange behaviors they will encounter at the worst of times. Regular people can learn from that knowledge, since, after all, we will be the first on the scene...
...attendant is shrieking at you to "Get out!" to decide what you're going to do. Aviation safety experts, even the most jaded ones, count the rows to their nearest exits whenever they sit down on a plane. They know that their brain will not work well under extreme duress, and their eyes will not see well in thick smoke, so they need to have a sense of their best escape routes before anything goes wrong...
...fragmented into a network of distinct organizations. Some are little more than gangster outfits - running protection rackets in the slums and collecting "taxes" from buses - while others have political programs or continue as a shadowy religious order. They are bound together by a secret oath often taken under duress. One former adherent said it was designed to humiliate the recruit and ensure his silence. "You are forced to eat some meat - you don't know what, maybe it is human meat - and all the time they are beating you," he said...
...strongest groups of receivers in the league. The Harvard ‘D’ held Princeton to just 10 completions on 28 attempts for a total of 84 yards, thanks in part to multiple dropped passes. “A lot of the things that caused us duress today were the fact that we didn’t do some fundamental things right,” said Princeton head coach Roger Hughes. “We turned the ball over late—now, granted, Williams is a good corner, and he made a couple good plays when...