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...Walt Disney Co. is also taking to sea, a move that both scares and encourages this $7.5 billion industry. Disney is launching a pair of $370 million ships that will each carry 1,760 passengers when the vessels arrive later this year. (Construction snafus have delayed delivery of the first, the Disney Magic, from March to July.) Backed by a $130 million marketing budget, these floating Mouse traps will offer three- and four-day excursions as part of Disney World vacations. The good news is that Disney's money will sell the industry to a new generation of travelers...
...their quest for synthetic perfection, the cruise lines have created their own ports of call. Disney's Castaway Cay in the Bahamas features three beaches and a 12-acre snorkeling lagoon. At Coco Cay, Royal Caribbean's 140-acre island, aquamarine waters lap at the white sand beach, while snorkelers explore a 16th century sailing ship and a small plane that the company submerged to give divers a sense of adventure. Alas, what Royal Caribbean calls a controlled shore experience some others have labeled a limited amusement experience. "There's nothing here but some palm trees," complained LaDonne Herring...
...some kid-targeted comedies and an adult thriller or two. Then, of course, everything goes wrong. "The most interesting thing this summer," says Harry Knowles Jr., the dweebmaster of the movie-gossip website Ain't It Cool News, "is that we don't have Warner's Superman film or Disney's Mighty Joe Young or Universal's Hulk coming out, as they were originally slated to. We've had three big dropouts...
...Microsoft, it's a simple menu guiding surfers to popular sites like Disney and CNN. To Redmond's critics, it's an abuse of monopoly power. The Active Channel Bar "decreases consumer choice," the Software Publishers Association told the Justice Department. In response, Microsoft said PC makers could sell copies of Win 98 with the channel bar hidden. That wasn't enough for SPA president Ken Wasch, who says, "The channel bar should be completely empty," so anyone other than Microsoft can fill...
MICHAEL EISNER Disney quarterly profits rise 22%, stock splits 3 for 1, and Animal Kingdom opens. Roar on, Mike...