When they compared this automated mechanism for identifying dead worms with manual methods that depended upon human eyes, they found it was every bit as effective.

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The nearly 20 psychological techniques laid out in the manual include methods that stress incentives -- offering something for cooperating or taking away something when the prisoner is not being helpful -- and manipulating emotional states -- playing on fears or revenge or friendship.

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Mr. Gates, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said government interrogators should be limited to the techniques contained in the Army Field Manual and barred from using harsher methods.

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