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...intelligence officers to "soften up" the detainees for questioning. Certainly, putting hoods over prisoners' heads and stripping them naked would conform to common, if primitive, interrogation-prep tactics. Ilan Kutz, an Israeli psychiatrist who has witnessed military training for interrogations, confirms that sexual humiliation is also a well-known tool. "The idea of interrogation is to break down the person so all his resistance is shot, and then he'll tell you anything," he says. "In the process, sexual humiliation is certainly not excluded, sadly. You are leading people to a precipice where suddenly they glimpse their powerlessness. Especially...
...photos, says Klinestiver, "I believe they were posed." England's grin, she insists, was aimed at her friends behind the camera, not the humiliated detainees. Lawson contends that the photos were staged so they could be used to intimidate new prisoners. "It was a psychological tool," he insists, to "loosen up these prisoners for these interrogators...
...economic forecasts and the rhetorical flourishes in Peter Costello's Parliamentary speech on May 11, and what can you make of Australia's 2004-05 federal Budget? Is it anything but a routine annual statement on taxing and spending? While fiscal policy is nowadays a second-tier economic tool, it's always been a top-shelf political accelerant. It's also the best example around of how governments set the agenda - particularly when general elections loom. If Prime Minister John Howard and Treasurer Costello have become masters at anything during their 3,000 days in government, it's been...
...North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill, Easterling oversees HT programs for adult day care, at-risk teens, adults with developmental disabilities and patients with Alzheimer's. HT is also a valuable tool for treating depression and substance abuse. "It's about using plants as the tool to reach therapeutic goals," says Easterling, who began her career as a clinical social worker but became frustrated when "words were not enough to reach some patients." By using plants, she says, you "create a connection with the natural world. Learning that you can take care of a living thing and it responds...
Gardening is also an excellent tool for physical rehabilitation because it uses large and small muscles and fine and gross motor skills. Linda Ciccantelli, who founded the HT program at Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia, works in the hospital's lush rooftop greenhouse with patients who have suffered spinal-cord and head injuries as well as strokes. "When people have a devastating illness, you try to tap into something they want to do," she says. "I have seen standing tolerances improve while people are planting. When you are in the flow of an activity, you aren't as aware...