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...this, and built his empire on it. His early, primal animated features mined infant emotions of fear, loss and reconciliation, and branded the Disney name on their receptive brains. On '50s TV, The Mickey Mouse Club and Disneyland sold young viewers not just a theme park but a sanitized ideal of childhood. Walt also sold them friends: cartoon characters you could pack your school lunch in, fall asleep with or wear on your wrist. (The marketing genius of the Mickey Mouse watch cannot be overstated...
...trees in the center of Kansas City. The home cost him about $100,000. It needed renovation, which Zachery planned to do himself, one room at a time. As home values rose, he used his equity to buy the heavy machinery required for his business. He was pursuing the ideal of the self-made entrepreneur, but his ambition left him dangerously exposed when the housing market soured, because he owed nearly twice the original purchase price...
...oxygen mask over my face. The mask was connected to a computer that measured my oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide output during a 20-min. stress test. With those data, plus my weight, height, age and gender, the computer created a report on my current health--including the ideal fat-burning and carbohydrate-burning heart-rate zones for me. Then the New Leaf system generated an eight-week daily fitness plan and uploaded it to New Leaf's website. (Additional assessments are $150 per eight weeks--still cheaper than a real, live personal trainer.) Once that's done, just fill...
...even playing for us right now. So that’s hurt us and set us back.”Upperclassmen started to peel off early in the season due to back, knee, and ankle problems, opening up positions for the younger players. While this is not an ideal situation by any means, Harvard could not have been in a better position to compensate for this misfortune, considering it has a top-25 recruiting class. “To lead the program at this point, it is very difficult for younger players or freshman players to take on that kind...
...take even more of their beefs to the ECHR - even though it is no guarantee of getting what they see as their just deserts. "Russians have created this myth about the European Court of Human Rights," says Lev Ponomaryov, a leading human-rights activist, "that it is this ideal system that will resolve everyone's case, and compared to our system, it is perfect, which I think is partially true - but many do misuse it and file cases without exhausting legal means at home." According to Ponomaryov, there are some basic reasons Russians do not like their own courts...