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...interested in obtaining their release. They were stuck in Cuba, some indefinitely, literally outside the law. That alone was an incentive for the prisoners to talk. For a time, the military followed Army field manual rules, which allowed for 17 interrogation techniques, such as the use of the good cop--bad cop routine; the we-know-everything gambit; the use and removal of incentives; emotional and psychological pressure; and silence...
Cheadle's roles--Buck Swope, a porn star who dreams of becoming a stereo salesman, in Boogie Nights; Montel Gordon, a determined narcotics cop, in Traffic; the scene-stealing murderer, Mouse, in Devil in a Blue Dress; and Cockney explosives expert Basher Tarr in Ocean's Eleven and Twelve--are miniaturist masterpieces, full of detail and life. But as Paul Rusesabagina in the independent film Hotel Rwanda, Cheadle shows he can fill the screen as well as anyone else...
...crimes it later turns out they did not commit. When the heat of his struggle with Quinn subsides, Blunkett - if he survives as Home Secretary - will be standing in a landscape littered with evidence that even good people can do screwy things. The next time Britain's top cop is writing a bill to stiffen punishments or restrict liberties, that's something he would do well to remember...
...laser. Grier and a graduate student named Eric Dufresne were trying to build a new kind of "optical trap" - a device that splits a laser beam and uses it to capture particles of a single substance. Multiple traps, used in tandem, could let the scientists play traffic cop on a molecular level, separating a substance into component parts - removing bacteria from blood, for example. But first they had to make it work. For a year, Grier and Dufresne had been trying out fancy glass splitters, but nothing had done the trick. On this day (to help protect his patent, Grier...
...Soon after that jaw-dropping development, Grier co-founded Arryx. With a product called BioRyx, Arryx has now perfected the laser-beam splitting technique into what it calls a set of "optical tweezers." But we prefer the traffic-cop analogy: picture a busy time-lapse video of crisscrossing highways, bridges and underpasses, and you get an idea of what matter looks like in a BioRyx under a microscope. BioRyx picks up different substances and tells them where to go. The technology today is used for everything from analyzing blood to separating the sperm cells in bull semen that produce bulls...