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...Origins reps onstage are Hungarian chemist Krisztina Meiszel, 29, whose husband is an astrophysics graduate student at Harvard, and Mitchell Geller, a dapper man in his early 50s who’s equally at home with wielding a mascara wand and talking feminist theory...
...have no answers,” Cornell coach Tim Pendergast said. “When you’re not able to finish or execute, there’s no miracle, no magic wand that a coach...
...schoolboy wizard named Harry Potter, who knew something about fighting fierce, deadly enemies. Maybe that's why, when they took the train from their home in upstate New York to New York City for treatment, Catie wore a red cape, red lightning-shaped scar on her forehead, a wand and big black glasses. She was ready for anything...
...lots of books about orphans searching for their roots and adolescents coming of age--which leaves the question of what Rowling has done differently. Unlike some buff and brawny superheroes, Harry has the look of a nerd but the heart of a hero. He is small but fast: the wand is mightier than the sword. "He's kind of like me," says Alex Heggen, 12, of Des Moines, who, like so many kids, sees some of himself in Harry and hopes to find more of Harry in himself. "He's just brave sometimes ... I've got black hair, I wear...
...defibrillator implanted in your chest, it's not an idle question to ask whether it's in good working order. Thanks to medical-equipment maker Medtronic, heart patients can check up on the lifesaving device simply by waving a mouselike wand over their chest. The wand is plugged into a standard phone jack to send data to a physician over the Internet. An implanted defibrillator--a miniature version of the electric paddles that appear regularly on ER--can shock a racing heart back to a healthy rhythm. But every few months, doctors must check to see if it is operating...