Many fortunes rest on the Chinese being able to maintain the Magic 8, the 8% GDP growth rate widely thought to be the baseline for ongoing prosperity there.

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Hollywood's elusive magic is best experienced inside the Chinese Theatre - a bona fide movie palace that opened in 1927 under the direction of Sid Grauman.

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As Olympic announcers called the first-leg runners onto the track, Chinese workers scrambled to hand-draw bibs with magic markers.

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