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...psychological effects of solitary confinement are profound. Boston psychiatrist Stuart Grassian has noted that “solitary confinement itself can cause a very specific kind of psychiatric syndrome, which in its worst stages can lead to an agitated, hallucinatory, confusional psychotic state often involving random violence and self-mutilation.” The extreme sensory and intellectual deprivation that prisoners experience locked up these cells frequently leads to suicide attempts. In addition to the severity of the punishment, prisoners in such conditions are also denied rehabilitative opportunities such as education and drug treatment programs, reducing the likelihood that they...
...love is the most profound and exciting way of thinking about the fact that other people exist...
...page should be, surf to his online gallery at www.yugop.com (Warning: don't do this on a day when you have to get anything else done. It's addictive.) The Web was designed by scientists as a way to share data, but Nakamura uses it to share something more profound: a sense of playfulness. Words and images float freely across the screen or follow the cursor like schools of curious minnows. Images bulge and distort or blow away as if in a high wind. A clock ticks off seconds with a hand frantically stacking and unstacking toy wooden blocks. Words...
...with the issue. Second, we are all fearful of the consequences of military action that does not take into view the security, territorial integrity and civil order of Iraq. It is not only the French, but the British and the Americans who also accept these elements as being of profound importance for the future of the region...
...mystery that Marchant is grappling with is perhaps the most profound of all. Today Antarctica is synonymous with ice; 98% of its surface is covered by ice. But this was not always the case. Even though the landmass that constitutes Antarctica has occupied a polar position for well over 100 million years, for much of that time it enjoyed a rather pleasant clime. During the Cretaceous Period, for example, areas that today are obscured by ice were covered with forests of conifers and beech, and through them, scientists believe, roamed a variety of animals, including reptiles and dinosaurs...