The Key Vanishes: Scientist Outlines Unbreakable Code The Key Vanishes: Scientist Outlines Unbreakable Code
By GINA KOLATA

Rick Friedman for The New York Times
Dr. Michael Rabin, above, found a novel approach to code messages.
computer science professor at Harvard says he has found a way to send coded messages that cannot be deciphered, even by an all-powerful adversary with unlimited computing power. And, he says, he can prove it.

Erin Go Brockovich - Soderbergh should win, but not for Traffic.  by Franklin Foer Critics, of course, disagree. They can't get over the fact that Hollywood has financed a project as unconventional as Traffic, with its contrarian political message, handheld camera work, and nonlinear narrative. But Traffic's politics are hardly brash. The drug war is a slow-moving target that virtually no one defends. Handheld camera work might have been inventive in the late '80s, when Soderbergh used it in sex, lies, and videotape, but it's old news by now. And much of the film's dramatic tension is a result of sheer pace and volume. Watch it a second time, and the stories seem much more facile.