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Evolution, in short, favors nubile females who still look as though they have a great many years of fertility ahead of them. Evolutionary impulses are more complicated for women, who tend to seek men who are powerful and can provide maximum care for their offspring, and such men aren't always young-looking. Gay men have two equally enthusiastic subcultures favoring twinks or bears - guys who look as if they are in their teens, and guys who look as if they could be your...
...with those of the CIA program. "[The study subjects] were distracted from sleeplessness by playing different games or watching soccer matches. They could eat, drink, read and move about as they wished. [From] the American documents, we learn that sleep deprivation spanned from 70 to 120 hours - and set maximum limits of 180 hours for the hardest resisters, which is over a full week without sleep," Onen said. "In other words, they discuss starting the sleep deprivation process at nearly double the maximum we set for ethical reasons." Onen compared the CIA's use of his study results...
According to the Justice Department memos, the maximum allowable period of sleep deprivation allowed under the CIA interrogation program was 264 hours, though no detainee was deprived of sleep for more than 180 hours, or 7½ days. Only three detainees had been subjected to sleep deprivation for more than 96 hours. The detainees were kept awake by being forced to stand, sit or recline in uncomfortable positions, with shackled limbs. At the same time, detainees could undergo stressful treatments, including significant dietary restrictions and violence, like waterboarding and walling. (Read "Waterboarding: A Mental and Physical Trauma...
Some civil rights lobbyists remain optimistic that the positions Justice Department lawyers have taken are little more than courtroom maneuvers that don't necessarily reflect the policy plans of the Administration. "The lawyers tend to approach every issue in terms of preserving maximum flexibility for the President," explained Elisa Massimino, a lobbyist at Human Rights First, who has been deeply involved in detainee issues. Nonetheless, she says she remains concerned. "Every Administration believes it is immune to the phenomenon of executive power creep," she added...
...form of turture - the Agency was giving the OLC a clearer picture. According to two OLC memos in May of that year by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Steven Bradbury, the Agency had informed the lawyers the waterboarding technique was being used on a detainee on a maximum of five days during a single 30-day period. On each day, there could only be two "sessions," in which the detainee was strapped to an inclined bench, a cloth placed over his nose and mouth, and water poured over the cloth - to induce a sense of drowning. In each "session," there...