Dr. SKRAPEC SYNC: Right now if there is a criminal like a serial killer or bank robber, they are able to print in the code, 'cos each face you make has a particular code, a number for the eyebrows and a number for the nostril.

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With BMW for instance, consumers can visit a Web page and print off a simple bar code which they then show in front of their Web cam.

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Recipients print a coupon with a bar code that includes the account number, and mail it in with a check.

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If this sounds too cynical by half, I dare you to print out the whole of the US tax code on your home printer.

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Changes in the tax code, tighter federal regulations on entertainment practices and the overall decline in print-ad sales have also had an effect.

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That sensibility led Topkis to her first winner, a 1995 British detective story called Death in the Garden, by Elizabeth Ironside. (In January Garden briefly beat out The Da Vinci Code as the top mystery seller on Amazon.com.) To publish this out-of-print title, Topkis had to track down the book's rights.

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