Word: cartoons
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...city's Strip. Sixteen time zones away, in a drab industrial building at the far end of a Hong Kong subway line, the shock was felt just as much. Imagi, a fledgling animation company, was in the running to make Father of the Pride, a prime-time comedy cartoon about the private lives of Siegfried & Roy's feline co-stars. "I opened the newspaper and it said Roy was bitten by a tiger," says Francis Kao, founder of the company. Then calls started coming in from DreamWorks SKG, the Hollywood studio that dreamt up the idea. "I started...
Nick A. Will, the editor of Harbus—the student newspaper of the Business School—resigns after the school threatened him with disciplinary action for publishing a cartoon that criticized the school’s Office of Career Services...
...course website, which contains links to several of his articles in scholarly journals and lists his fields of research—including “inflectionary morphology” and “neuroimaging of inflection”—also prominently displays on its cover page a cartoon caricature of Pinker, his signature hair dominating the rest of his features...
...scientific quest for new data and better ways to help individual patients battle the bulge. It has become a crusade to change the way Americans live. The nation's landscape, they argue, is littered with junk food masquerading as health food, candy and candylike cereals featuring kids' favorite cartoon characters and toylike packaging, schools that shamelessly hawk soft drinks and snack foods, and multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns to promote such unwholesome products. Schools, in particular, "have become nutritional disaster areas," says Dr. David Ludwig, a Harvard pediatrician who directs the obesity program at Children's Hospital Boston. Experts like Ludwig...
...problem goes way beyond the old Saturday-morning cartoon shows. Children are now exposed to 40,000 TV ads a year, up from 20,000 in the 1970s, according to a report by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Up to 70% of those ads are for food (though some researchers put the figure much lower, at a still considerable 25%). Ads for high-fat, high-salt foods have more than doubled since the 1980s, while commercials for fruits and vegetables remain in short supply...