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...much more as these historical rivals faced each other on the pitch. Austria hadn't beaten Germany in a major tournament in decades. And now, gifted a controversial late penalty against Poland resulting in a draw that had kept them alive, the Austrians had a chance to make some magic of their own and prove the team's doubters wrong. Before the tournament had even started, dissident Austrian fans had mocked the team's dreadful form by selling T-shirts that said, "Hosted by Losers...
...time of Jurassic Park, in 1993, the seven-ton T. Rex he built was only part of the visual trickery. The rest was the breakthrough digital sorcery supplied by George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic. Since then, fans have wondered apprehensively, is Winston's an obsolescent art? (In his last days he was transforming his studio to emphasize the digital.) Will makeup effects soon seem as anachronistic as the papier-mache monster suits worn in the grade-Z horror movies...
...need magic to transform our world,” Rowling said. “We carry all the power we need inside of ourselves. Already, we have the power to imagine better...
Even University President Drew G. Faust, proclaiming herself “muggle-in-chief” for the day, announced in her introductory remarks that Harvard “would be hard pressed to measure up to the magic of Hogwarts...
...Using drugs to cope with battlefield traumas is not discussed much outside the Army, but inside the service it has been the subject of debate for years. "No magic pill can erase the image of a best friend's shattered body or assuage the guilt from having traded duty with him that day," says Combat Stress Injury, a 2006 medical book edited by Charles Figley and William Nash that details how troops can be helped by such drugs. "Medication can, however, alleviate some debilitating and nearly intolerable symptoms of combat and operational stress injuries" and "help restore personnel to full...