Disney

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Aug 2003	Number of U.S. commercial sites besides Disneyland and Disney World that have been granted no-fly-zone protection: 0	Harper's Index Source: Federal Aviation Administration (Washington)
Nov 2002	Year in which Disney's Mickey Mouse copyright will expire if the Supreme Court reverses a 1998 extension this winter: 2003	Harper's Index Source: Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School (Stanford, Calif.)
Oct 2002	Years that the National Security Agency's new head of research held the same position at Disney: 2	Harper's Index Source: National Security Agency (Fort Meade, Md.)/The Walt Disney Company (Burbank, Calif.)
Mar 2000	Number of federal fraud charges of which former Mouseketeer Darlene Gillespie was found guilty in 1998: 9	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Attorney's Office (Los Angeles)
Jan 1999	Chances that a Disney World employee is unionized: 2 in 5	Harper's Index Source: Disney World (Orlando, Fla.)
Jan 1999	Rank of Disney World, among the country's largest single-site employers: 1	Harper's Index Source: Disney World (Orlando, Fla.)
Dec 1998	Number of years it took before Disney's planned community of Celebration, Florida, experienced its first violent crime: 2	Harper's Index Source: Osceola County Sheriff's Office (Osceola, Fla.)
Jul 1998	Number of animals that died in accidents at Disney's new Animal Kingdom park before it opened last April: 27	Harper's Index Source: Department of Agriculture
May 1998	Amount that a Disney licensing agreement has earned the Royal Canadian Mounted Police since 1995: $414,848	Harper's Index Source: Mounted Police Foundation (Ottawa, Ontario)

August 3, 2007	Walt Disney World increased ticket prices for the third time in two years, to $71.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: local6.com
April 5, 2007	The Walt Disney Company announced that it will begin offering “Fairy Tale” weddings to homosexuals.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: Reuters
January 24, 2006	Disney announced it would buy Pixar.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: E! Online via Yahoo! News
November 22, 2005	President Bush issued pardons to two turkeys, which were then sent to Disneyland to serve as grand marshals at a parade. “The granting of the turkey pardon,” said the President, “is not a responsibility that I take lightly.” The turkeys, Marshmallow and Yam, earned their pardons when they beat out Democracy and Freedom in an online poll.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The White House
July 15, 2005	Disney World started scanning the index and middle fingers of all visitors.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Local 6
June 14, 2005	A four-year-old boy died after passing out on the Mission: Space centrifuge ride at Disney World.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Chicago Sun-Times
May 30, 2005	Disney digitally reduced the size of Lindsay Lohan's breasts to make a film called Herbie: Fully Loaded less offensive.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Hollywood.com
May 5, 2004	The Walt Disney Company refused to distribute a new Miramax documentary by Michael Moore called Fahrenheit 911, which is highly critical of President Bush.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
February 11, 2004	Pluto was crushed to death by a parade float near Splash Mountain in Disneyworld.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: News4Jax.com

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