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...rasps his way through his role as Professor Dumbledore. Other famous stars only make brief appearances: John Cleese hams it up appropriately as Nearly-Headless Nick, Julie Waters is onscreen for two seconds as Ron’s mom, John Hurt sparkles with appropriate wit and gravity as the wand-seller Mr. Ollivander and Warwick Davis (Willow) teaches levitation as Professor Flitwick...
...aggressive action. To prevent the transfer of boarding passes, passengers that have already checked-in should be separated from those that have not. To make it more difficult to sneak weapons onto planes, every carry-on should be opened for inspection—including search with a bomb-sniffing wand. And, as a final safeguard against unauthorized passengers on-board, identification presented at check-in should be scanned into a computer database so that, upon boarding, each passenger can be photographed again for comparison...
Canteen Vending, based in Charlotte, N.C., is busy retrofitting 50,000 machines nationwide to take payment from FreedomPay wands by the end of 2002. FORTUNE 500 companies such as Prudential Insurance and GM already have vending machines that accept payment by wand. And Yale students will get similar machines in their cafeterias next year...
...lose your wand or RFID cell phone, you just report it stolen or missing, and FreedomPay or 2Scoot will deactivate it and issue a new one with a new code. And those who use the electronic-purse system usually keep only two-figure sums of money in them. "It's not like you're gonna buy a 1948 roadster with a $99 account," says Jim Forbes, an analyst for consulting firm IDG, based in San Mateo, Calif...
Parents who want their lunch money to go for food--as opposed to video games, cigarettes or alcohol--are also finding RFID wands a useful tool. In Boise, McDonald's manager Dick Darmody says one of his first customers for RFID wands was a woman with three sons--12, 14 and 16. "She was always giving her sons money for lunch, and they were always losing it," he says. "She liked the idea that they could use the wand only at McDonald's." Darmody also sees the wands as a tool to build customer loyalty--say, by offering customers...