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smart card

(Encyclopedia) smart card, small device that resembles a credit card but contains an embedded microprocessor to store and process information. Magnetic-stripe cards, which store a very small amount…

1976 Cannes Film Festival

Palme d'OrTaxi Driver, Martin Scorsese (United States)Taxi DriverArchive PhotosSpecial Jury PrizeCria Cuervos, Carlos Saura (Spain)The Marquise of O, Eric Rohmer (Germany/France)Best…

artificial intelligence

(Encyclopedia) artificial intelligence (AI), the use of computers to model the behavioral aspects of human reasoning and learning. Research in AI is concentrated in some half-dozen areas. In problem…

Eureka (Film)

Director:Shinji AoyamaShooting Gallery; NR; 217 minutesRelease:5/01Cast:Aoi Miyazaki, Koji Yakusho, Masaru Miyazaki There is a movement in contemporary Japanese music where the musicians work…

82nd Indianapolis 500

Information Please Picks Its Favorites Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Arie Luyendyk hopes to be reunited with his long-lost love–the Borg-Warner Trophy–after Sunday's race at America's oldest…

Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: The Rainmaker

115 117 The Rainmaker AN Officer of the Government, with a great outfit of mule-waggons loaded with balloons, kites, dynamite bombs, and electrical apparatus, halted in the midst of a desert,…

Hard Rain

Director: Mikael SalomonWriter: Graham YostDirector of Photography:Peter Menzies, Jr.Editor:Paul HirschMusic:Christopher YoungProduction Designer:J. Michael RivaProducers:Mark Gordon, Gary…

Grosse Pointe Blank

Director: George Armitage Writers: Tom Jankiewicz, Steve Pink and John Cusack Director of Photography: Jamie Anderson Editor: Brian Berdan Music: Joe Strummer Production…

"King of the Restrictor Plate"

After a disappointing 22nd place finish last year, Marlin is back to challenge at the course he and his family have always loved. Marlin has been dubbed by many as the "King of the Restrictor Plate…

The Top Ten: Most Dangerous Jobs

December 10 - 17 Most Dangerous Jobs, 2004 Rank Occupation Death rate/100,000 Total deaths in 2004 1. Logging workers 92.4 85…