31.   The hand-held device, a magnetic strip reader attached to a palmtop computer, was used to collect and store credit card numbers, according to local prosecutors.

32.   The magnetic strips on Earth occur along mid-ocean ridges where the molten rock deep below, called magma, welled up through cracks in the thin crust.

33.   The patent also covers use of a scanner that could read bar codes or magnetic strips on a page and send a similar coded signal to the microprocessor.

34.   The new document is the size of a credit card and has a magnetic strip encrypted with information.

35.   The smart cards relied on magnetic strips similar to those on the backs of credit cards.

36.   They are more sophisticated, and have been considered more secure, than banking cards or telephone cards that use information on a magnetic strip.

37.   They are more sophisticated, and have been considered more secure, than banking cards that store information on a magnetic strip.

38.   They are more sophisticated than banking cards or telephone cards that store information on a magnetic strip.

39.   They are more sophisticated than banking cards or telephone cards that use information on a magnetic strip.

40.   They issue membership cards with a magnetic strip that records either time or money spent gambling there and your name goes on their mailing list for discount newsletters.