Word: stress
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...military intelligence specialist who conducted interrogations in Vietnam, Panama, and Iraq during Desert Storm, torture is “simply not a good way to get information.” According to Herrington, nine out of 10 people can be persuaded to talk with no “stress methods” at all. And even if the remaining person is the correct suspect, he will “just tell you anything to get you to stop.” In 1999, the Supreme Court of Israel—arguably the most experienced democratic court in dealing with such...
Nearly eight months after the Harvard College Curricular Review’s (HCCR) Committee on General Education submitted the first, abortive draft of its recommendations, its final document is complete. Underlying the recommendations is a guiding vision of interdisciplinarity, accountability, and flexibility that previous drafts conspicuously lacked. They stress cross-department cooperation, put the onus on professors to enhance the quality of their classes, and give students far more avenues by which to complete their general education requirements. As the committee’s document is debated piece-by-piece in the coming weeks and months, it is crucial that...
Most troubling of all, what about when enough ambition becomes way too much? Grand dreams unmoored from morals are the stuff of tyrants--or at least of Enron. The 16-hour workday filled with high stress and at-the-desk meals is the stuff of burnout and heart attacks. Even among kids, too much ambition quickly starts to do real harm. In a just completed study, anthropologist Peter Demerath of Ohio State University surveyed 600 students at a high-achieving high school where most of the kids are triple-booked with advanced-placement courses, sports and after-school jobs. About...
...study of high-achieving high school students conducted by Ohio State's Demerath was noteworthy for more than the stress he found the students were suffering. It also revealed the lengths to which the kids and their parents were willing to go to gain an advantage over other suffering students. Cheating was common, and most students shrugged it off as only a minor problem. A number of parents--some of whose children carried a 4.0 average--sought to have their kids classified as special-education students, which would entitle them to extra time on standardized tests. "Kids develop their...
...yearning for supremacy can create its own set of problems. Heart attacks, ulcers and other stress-related ills are more common among high achievers--and that includes nonhuman achievers. The blood of alpha wolves routinely shows elevated levels of cortisol, the same stress hormone that is found in anxious humans. Alpha chimps even suffer ulcers and occasional heart attacks...