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...demands that costs be cut, suddenly he is your parent who could never make ends meet," says Lafair, adding, "Reactions happen in milliseconds. The trigger is usually stress. As anxiety rises, people's ability to respond in a mature manner goes down." If you've ever witnessed a colleague undergo a complete psychic meltdown over a minor setback or mistake, you know exactly what she's talking about...
SEAL training is a grueling ordeal: its core six-month course includes a "hell week" in which waterlogged recruits undergo five straight days of push-ups, running and advanced exercises--like learning to swim with their hands and feet tied--on a total of four hours of sleep. The Navy has more than 330,000 active sailors but only about 2,000 SEALs. The small fraction of recruits who pass training, as Phillips knows, are excellent shots...
...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...
...Other sports physiologists are currently studying how ingesting the sugared solution, as opposed to just rinsing with it, affects physical performance, and how the body responds to artificially sweetened drinks. The body may undergo a kind of metabolic letdown in anticipation of a sugar rush that never comes, which could affect performance. "In some ways, the body's reaction is to the 'promise' of an incoming carbohydrate load, so one wonders what happens when that promise is not fulfilled," says Williams...
...step back and examine what we do,” Seltzer said. “It’s a useful exercise.” The University—which had its last comprehensive review in the fall of 1997, then submitted an interim report in 2003—undergoes the voluntary, peer-review process of accreditation every decade by NEASC, one of six regional accrediting organizations in the U.S. In addition to the University’s overall accreditation, most of the professional and graduate schools undergo individual accreditation procedures by their respective review bodies. —Staff...