Word: magical
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...athlete's quiet confidence and easygoing physicality. The younger of two brothers, Tsuyoshi became obsessed with music while his peers were becoming passionate about his dad's sport. His mother, an elementary school teacher, remembers scolding a 12-year-old Tsuyoshi for cutting cram school to hit a Yellow Magic Orchestra gig at the Budokan...
After one student asked about the lack of difficulty in quantitative reasoning and science Cores, Gross—who co-teaches Quantitative Reasoning 28, “The Magic of Numbers”—dismissed the notion that that the courses lack rigor...
...company has raised some $100 million from investors, among them Rho Ventures, based in New York City, and IBM. The idea is to sell the kiosk for about $60,000 to retailers, resorts and cruise ships and then supply the machine's magic film-development dust as a consumable (on the model of companies that sell razors cheap and profit on the blades). All revenue from photo development goes into the retailer's pocket. Joel Paymer, co-owner of Camera Land, where a kiosk is being tested in New York City, gushes that "it's going to change...
...intact, including grownups Maggie Smith as Professor McGonagall, Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid and Richard Harris - who died last week - as Dumbledore. Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) and his nasty pals are still hatching nefarious plots. Production designer Stuart Craig's Diagon Alley - a teetering jumble of Tudor and Georgian magic shops - is still standing. Hogwarts Castle's mile-high central staircase continues to twist and turn according to its own whims. Columbus has included all of the book's greatest moments: Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint, 14, in whose voice you can hear the raspy effects of puberty) receives a "howler" telegram...
...novel, The Heaven of Mercury is quite captivating—like first love, it absorbs those who spot it and draws them in closer. Watson’s fluid prose and ample descriptions build the story into something wonderful, despite its flaws. Without the forced integration of elements of magic, it would certainly be a more magical book. However, even just as it is, The Heaven of Mercury casts a spell...