If conditions are exactly right, the wort ferments on its own, as if by magic.

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Peter Jack, a former chairman of the Danny Boy Festival in Limavady, said it was great the song was getting attention as a result of the proposal, but agreed that if any song is played often it can lose its magic.

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Instead of looking for the earliest signs of industrialisation, then, perhaps the thing to do is to let the imagination run riot and ask what technology might do to a solar system if it had tens or hundreds of thousands of years to work its magic.

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The food is very good, and the staff makes mealtime magic of its own, staging beach barbecues and, if the tide is low at dusk, drinks and dinner on a long, scorpion-tail sandbar way out in Copperfield Bay.

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While the Super AMOLED works its magic on those on-screen blacks, you'll still suffer some pixelation woes if you get too close to the qHD (960 x 540) surface.

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If Germany's much-touted structural reforms are ever to work their magic, many more elements of its old-fashioned corporatist structures may have to go.

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