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...Disneyland Paris, the average visitor spends ?43 a day, about 20% less than a visitor to the California or Florida parks. Nigel Reed, an analyst at BNP Paribas, says part of that difference is a function of factors like climate - you'll drink more sodas on a hot, sunny Florida day than on a drizzly, gray one in the Paris suburbs. While Euro Disney knows the U.S. isn't necessarily the best predictor of Continental attitudes toward amusement, both analysts and executives say there is room for spending growth...
Being at the Winter Olympic Games is like being at Disneyland. For the past 16 days, we have existed in an Enron-free world of snow and smiles. We have worried about medal tallies instead of death tolls, snowfall rather than falling stock prices. And now, as these Salt Lake City Games draw to a close, we find ourselves looking forward to the next Games...
...What you are missing, though, is the security show. Salt Lake City is a $350 million U.S. Army theme park - the Disneyland of militarism with 16,000 cast members, an Eisenhowerian House of Horrors. Every block is a 12-year-old boy's dream. It may take an hour to get to the luge, but along the way, you can see National Guard maneuvers, talk to correctional officers from all over the country and see F-16s overhead. It's all the thrills of living in a Third World country without giving up one single chain restaurant...
...consider whether we would have been brave enough to stay behind to help an injured colleague. The first chance to turn the Selfish Generation into something more like the Greatest Generation was missed last fall when Bush urged us to return to normality--at the mall, the cineplex and Disneyland. With the unveiling of Freedom Corps, the President has a second chance to tap that well of compassion and finally get last year's "communities of character" initiative, sidelined by the war, up and running...
...seriously, I used to think about this and I wanted to go to Disneyland and stay there after the park closes—live there,” he said. “But as you grow up, you realize that Disneyland is actually a really shady place. Really [expletive] shady, so maybe I wouldn?...