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...crossed Worth, he watched the lamplighter gingerly poke his torch, like a wizard's wand, up inside the glass globe toward the jet of gas. The bloom of light enveloped Skaggs...
...shop, kids can dress up as fairies and wizards, have their photo taken, and go home with a set of gauze wings or a wand. For birthday parties, she hosts "magical picnics" on the red-and-white concrete toadstools in the "fairy garden." Some of the children have gray hair. "When elderly people come in, I give them a fairy wish and their faces light up," Gadenne says. "None of us wants to grow...
...they changed it. Nintendo threw away the controller-as-we-know-it and replaced it with something that nobody in his right mind would recognize as video-game hardware at all: a short, stubby, wireless wand that resembles nothing so much as a TV remote control. Humble as it looks on the outside, it's packed full of gadgetry: it's part laser pointer and part motion sensor, so it knows where you're aiming it, when and how fast you move it and how far it is from the TV screen. There's a strong whiff of voodoo about...
...changed for him since he first picked up a wand. He has got taller and lost his round little-boy's face. He has gone through puberty, and his voice has broken. He's dealing with some complexion issues, and he's working on some beginner's stubble. For Goblet director Mike Newell, shooting him is like shooting a moving target. "I've just been working on a scene which we shot in our first week, and Dan still looks the little kid that he was in Sorcerer's Stone," says Newell, who's probably best known for Four Weddings...
...usually takes more than a touch of magic to cure an illness, but a Harvard Medical School (HMS) study has found that wand-waving may actually help stroke patients recover. The study of 10 stroke patients, conducted by HMS neurologist Dr. Felipe Fregni and co-authors at the medical school, found that placing magnetic wands over the heads of stroke patients can help them to regain lost motor skills. The non-invasive therapy, called transcranial magnetic simulation (TMS), uses a figure eight-shaped coil to deliver weak, pulsating electrical currents to specific areas of the brain. When the therapy...