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An oversized plastic billiard ball filled with murky liquid sits in my hands. Inside float twenty possible answers. I close my eyes and silently ask a question. I turn the ball, revealing a little window on its underside, and wait for an answer to emerge through the haze. This is a Magic 8 Ball, a t...

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1. Verfasser:	Gardiner, L. S
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Zusammenfassung:	An oversized plastic billiard ball filled with murky liquid sits in my hands. Inside float twenty possible answers. I close my eyes and silently ask a question. I turn the ball, revealing a little window on its underside, and wait for an answer to emerge through the haze. This is a Magic 8 Ball, a toy marketed by Mattel. But it is so much more than a toy. The Magic 8 Ball is a tool for prediction. Developed in the 1940s by a couple of guys, one of whom had a fortune-telling mom, the Magic 8 Ball has been providing