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...touched by a magic wand," says 28-year-old Maria de Lujan Telpuk of the incident that changed her life. Not that it turned the former kindergarten teacher into the sort of princess that appeared in the fairy tales she might once have read to her class - Telpuk's meteoric rise to national fame was consecrated by her naked appearance on the cover of February's Argentina edition of Playboy. But it's the suitcase she's holding in that photograph, bearing the flags of Argentina and Venezuela, and the cover line "Corruption Laid Bare" that reveal the story...
...magic wand" that touched Telpuk's life came last August, in the form of a suitcase crammed with three quarters of a million dollars. Not that she kept the money - on the contrary, it's the fact that she chose to blow the whistle on its owner rather than seek a bribe to remain silent that made her something of a folk heroine...
...platform 9? at London's King's Cross station, a cluster of students in starry robes, pointed hats and rep ties are learning how plants grow, but it's not botany; they call it "herbology." In an adjacent classroom a boy with a famous lightning-bolt scar brandishes his wand, chants "Numerus Subtracticus!" and conjures the correct answer to a math problem...
...nature of the beast, children are more creative than we are," Chambers says. "So they will make the connections and do it enthusiastically." The Robert Mellors School proves that when education is packaged to encourage those connections, it can cast a powerful spell - just like the Ollivander wand favored by Harry Potter...
...allure that a magic wand of youth can be waved at home has made consumer-products giants like Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) snap to attention. After all, these devices have the potential to snare a sizable chunk of the estimated $24 billion that Americans spend to rejuvenate their faces and remove unwanted hair. Seeing synergies with its Neutrogena brand, J&J jumped into self-dermatology in 2004, signing an exploratory multiyear licensing deal with the $120 million company Palomar Medical Technologies to develop, test and commercialize light-based aesthetic devices that can treat wrinkles, cellulite...