Rumors run the range from a basic phone with 4GB storage for MP3s to a full-on smartphone running a portable version of OS X, with WiFi, satellite radio, clairvoyance, magic missiles and a +3 longsword.
Drone strikes, we're told, are surgical, killing only bad guys with magic missiles, and never purposely hitting civilians, hospitals, children, or wedding parties.
Magic includes combative missiles, fireballs, lightning bolts, and turning the undead, as well as health regeneration and trap navigation.
Yet many people believe, he added, that a chip "throws off ultraviolet rays or some kind of magic ray and the missile comes and hits the target".
In the interpretation of the art of the Upper Paleolithic, scholars have given great importance to magic because, for example, missiles (spears and arrows) were drawn on the pictures of animals.
Offensives take the form of melee, charges, missiles, and magic.
As the narrator lists weapons that Mr. Kerry voted against -- "Apache helicopters, C-130 Hercules and F-16 fighter jets, components of which are all built here in Florida" -- tanks and missiles vanish through the magic of computer graphics.
The bombing shook and damaged the walls of a neighboring house, but the missile had been precise, appearing as if by magic on one particular night.
My own -- in part, because it's the one I grew up with, the one that made me shiver through the Cuban missile crisis and "On the Beach" -- is the horrible magic of nuclear fission.
