Hassan, a Somerville, Mass. mental health counselor who has helped scores of former Dahn members, says the group uses deceptive recruitment and mind-control techniques to create a dissociative disorder among followers, splitting them off from their families and value systems.

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And the videogame business has seen its share of "unstoppable" systems--Trip Hawkin's ill-fated 3DO system leaps to mind--that faltered on market forces beyond their control.

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S. This Cracked article on story-telling and mind control is applicable.

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He tends to come off as an out-of-control rocker just speaking his mind whether the man likes it or not.

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Her self-control, her knack of sweeping problems into some corner-cabinet of her mind, is even more amazing than her husband's.

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Our job was to fill up 200-300 seminars each month with 30-40 people who wanted the peace of mind of being in control of their lives.

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After users choose from the zillions of costumes and body types, they pick from 400 different powers, including laser blasts, gravity control, mind control or the ability to summon a snowman that delivers quick-freezing breath.

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We're not sure that Vulcans would endorse this kind of mind meld, though: apart from immediately depriving the decoder rat of self-control, prolonged testing led to the same rodent developing additional sympathetic reactions to the encoder.

ENGADGET

Uppermost in Mr Murdoch's mind, as the phone-hacking detritus clings to his business, is the fate of his bid to take full control of BSkyB, the satellite TV company in which he is now the largest shareholder.

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