Video games happily often forget this, and fund a reemergence of magic and storytelling in the middle of our weekend afternoons and weekday evenings.

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As it happens, the moment at which the Fed now expects unemployment to go below the magic 6.5% is the middle of 2015, which is more or less when they had previously said they would think about tightening policy.

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And this would give them a chance to have a Batman film prior to the Justice League movie, in order to give Clark Kent a cameo to link the two worlds and introduce the more fantastical elements into the Nolanverse before throwing Batman right into the middle of flying aliens and monsters and magic.

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What's to stop Clear Channel Communications, (which, since acquiring SFX Entertainment last year, has a virtual monopoly of the acts, the concert venues and the radio promotion of big rock tours in America and is now being sued by a competing promoter in Denver on precisely those grounds) from repackaging Jurassic Rock for middle-aged fans hoping to recapture a few magic moments of their youth?

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This cosy French city of roughly 66, 000 people in the eastern Alsace region is home to five charming winter fairs, all part of La Magie de Noel (Christmas Magic) market, a tradition that dates back to the late Middle Ages.

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My kids have entered that nebulous no-mans-zone known as the middle grade (or tween) years: too old for simple chapter books (like The Magic Tree House series), but too young to demolish YA books about vampires by the dozen.

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