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...have ripped up issues for news before, of course; in fact, on that first day of infamy, when Pearl Harbor was bombed, we ditched the cover we had planned (on a new Walt Disney movie called Dumbo) and switched to Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet. (In those days we closed early in the week.) In this case, since we now close on Saturdays, the workweek had just begun, so we didn't have to throw anything out; we just started from scratch...
...couldn't move--that must have been the whole idea--so we had no choice but to watch. Every city cataloged its targets; residents looked at their skylines, wondering if they would be different in the morning. The Sears Tower in Chicago was evacuated, as were colleges and museums. Disney World shut down, and Major League Baseball canceled its games, and nuclear power plants went to top security status; the Hoover Dam and the Mall of America shut down, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and Mount Rushmore. It was as though someone had taken a huge brush and painted...
...memorializing this day and to get it into our readers' hands as quickly as possible. We have ripped up issues for news before, of course; in fact, on that first day of infamy, when Pearl Harbor was bombed, we ditched the cover we had planned (on a new Walt Disney movie called Dumbo) and switched to Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet. (In those days we closed early in the week.) In this case, since we now close on Saturdays, the workweek had just begun, so we didn't have to throw anything...
...FLORIDA: Security heightened at federal courts. Walt Disney World evacuated and closed its parks and shopping and entertainment complex...
...Disney is not the first to exploit Vetter's story for laughs. In an episode of Seinfeld (a production of Castle Rock Entertainment, an AOL Time Warner company), the character George famously ripped open an obnoxious bubble boy's capsule. Disney's position is that Bubble Boy makes fun of nobody and that Jimmy Livingston is "a resourceful, courageous and heroic character." Realizing their predicament, however, company officials have privately told victims' groups that Disney may be prepared to aid them in their public-awareness campaigns...