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...DIANE LIFTON Saignon, France...
...Nazi writer quoted by Robert J. Lifton in The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
...intelligence interrogator. "After a man's humiliated like this, if there was a chance he'd open up, now there's no way. If there was a chance to recruit him and send him back to the field as your source, now there's no chance." Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, a visiting professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has studied torture victims who came out of communist China in the 1950s. Under severe treatment, he found, people said what their interrogators wanted to hear. "They come up with so-called wild confessions," he says. In the 1980s the Israeli...
...into your Power Pack. About the size of a cigarette pack, the Power Pack will cost between $25 and $40 and last a year or more. The power comes from a disposable fuel cartridge that costs about a dollar and provides up to nine hours of phone use. Lifton sees enormous market potential, noting the 2 billion mobile phones estimated to be in use worldwide by 2007. New York--based market researchers Allied Business Intelligence predicts that by 2011 the market for micro--fuel cells will hit $2 billion to $3 billion; by 2013 the market for fuel cells...
...Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, the 35-person company should make it. With persistence and that old variable, luck, firms like Medis, Hydrogenics and Nanosys could see a big payback for giving power to the people. The way Lifton sees it, that would be one happy song. --With reporting by Chris Daniels/Toronto, Unmesh Kher/New York and Chris Taylor/San Francisco