Word: walt
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...will offer such grownup attractions as live entertainment at the House of Blues and the world's most elaborate sports bar at ESPN Zone. You will be able to get an adult beverage, both there and in one of the gourmet restaurants in the new park. (What would Uncle Walt think!) And plopped right in the middle of it all is the Grand Californian, a 751-room craftsman-style luxury hotel that's part Gustav Stickley, part Swiss chalet and all Disney...
...prevent the customers from leaving until Mickey has all their money. Disneyland was designed to be a one-day romp for most guests; Disney's California Adventure is a multiple-day, capital-R Resort. "We really transformed Orlando into a resort-vacation destination," says Paul Pressler, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. "And now our second park here in Southern California is striving to do the same thing...
...that's fine for a state that was established on gold fever and whose most famous exports are Baywatch, Tom Cruise...and the Disney empire. Why shouldn't a Disney "California" be Disneyfied? Walt's people invented the idea of an amusement park as a spiffy alternative universe. They perfected it. They still do it best...
Small wonder that consumers are flocking to low-emission cell phones and buying headsets to distance themselves from their phones. It's the same caution that compelled the Walt Disney Co., distressed by reports that phone radiation might be particularly harmful to children (see box), to vow to stop licensing its cartoon characters for use with cell phones "until there is reliable scientific evidence establishing the absence of any risk...
...been said that in America during the fractious 1850s, before the Civil War, Walt Whitman entertained the wistful, urgent conceit that his great poem "Leaves of Grass" might save the Union. It would show Americans that despite their divisions they were one great nation. Montaigne, almost three centuries earlier, worked a variation on the theme. Rising above dogma and abstraction, he would pursue the general human truth by studying himself - and such generalized self-knowledge, the recognition of their human selves, might relieve people of their inclination to kill one another for religious reasons...