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AN ADVENTURE IS AN EXCITING OR VERY UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE. IT IS A BOLD, USUALLY RISKY UNDERTAKING; A HAZARDOUS ACTION OF UNCERTAIN OUTCOME. THE BEST DESIGNS ARE THE RESULT OF A GREAT ADVENTURE. →

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I LOOKED AT A BARBIE DOLL WHEN I WAS SIX YEARS OLD AND SAID, “THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO LOOK LIKE.” THIS IS WHO I WANT TO BE. GLAMOUROUS. Cindy grew up a farm girl in Fremont, Ohio. “I wasn’t that good looking. And my sister was really, really a pretty girl,” recalls Cindy. “She was breathtaking. And every one used to talk to her more and smile at her more and notice her first.” But Cindy says she had a lot going for her, even with her old looks: “I was recognized as being highly intelligent when I was a child. I was never shy. I was never lazy. And I was never lacking ambition.” At 21, Cindy packed up her things and moved to London, where she went through a lot of changes, including a short career as a punk rocker. Finally at 33, she began the transformation. “I just wanted to look better,” says Cindy. “Barbie was the blank canvas I filled in all those years ago. It was still my role model and an image I kept with me throh the years. Cindy didn’t have any of Barbie’s looks, but she did have some money, which she inherited. It was enough to begin the surgeries that made her as plastic as her role model. ”I had laser surgery on my forehead,” says Cindy. “I’ve had upper eyes done, lower eyes done twice. Cheek implants and two nose jobs.” She also had four facelifts, a chin reduction, several chemical peels, and more. It took 31 operations and 14 years, but Cindy’s strange passion for plastic surgery got her a new look, and a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for most operations.

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THE QUEST FOR PE RFECTION Fifty-seven percent of all television programs contain psychologically harmful violence, according to a study funded by the cable television industry. The study, released on February 7, 1996, tracked 2,500 hours of various television programming. This was the largest sample ever analyzed by television researchers to date. It’s easy to say, “Oh, that's ridiculous! Television is just entertainment!” But can the steady flow of images watched every night from television screens across the country be so easily dismissed as simply entertainment? If the sheer volume of absorbed images is considered, how can what is shown on television have no effect on one's unique mental images? And if new mental images are created, shouldn't it be logical to say that they can have a significant effect on behavior? But the argument that television has a significant effect on children should not rely on studies alone, but on our own common sense. When a child is placed in front of the television his focus cannot be diverted and his gaze cannot be broken. That child only has eyes for the video screen. The bright

colors, quick movements and sudden flashes capture the child's attention. Only the rare child finds the television completely uninteresting. Even if only cartoons are watched, most children find the images presented on the television set mesmerizing. Television programs have the power to influence a child’s entire daily schedule. “They say that they go to school ‘after Huckleberry Hound,’ eat a TV dinner ‘during Gilligan’s Island,’ and go to bed ‘after Charlie’s Angels,’” writes Kate Moody in the book, Growing Up on Television. Unsupervised, a child could watch television constantly with no tought. A widely quoted figure is that, on average, a child watches between four and five hours of television each weekday, and ten hours on Saturday and Sunday. In a July, 1996 speech, President Bill Clinton noted that, "a typical child watches 25,000 hours of television before his or her 18th birthday. Preschoolers watch 28 hours of television a week." In the life of children, watching television is a significant sensory experience. Many children easily spend more time with the box than they do with any other form of entertainment. "Each year children read less and less and watch television more and more. In fact, Americans of all ages watch more television each year," writes Moody. "The typical child sits in front of the television four hours a day, and for children in lower socioeconomic families the amount of time thus spent is even greater. In either case, the child spends more time with TV than he or she spends talking to parents, playing with peers, attending school, or reading books. TV time usurps family time, play time, and the reading time that could promote language development." Watching TV is surely a passive event. Children and even adults remain completely immobile while viewing the box. Most viewing experiences, at least among Americans, are bothventirely quiet and noninteractive. All of the attention is given to the images. "Just like the operating room light, television creates an environment that assaults and overwhelms the child; he can respond to it only by bringing into play his shutdown mechanism, and thus become more passive," states a pediatrician quoted in the Moody book. "I have observed this in my own children, and I have seen it in other people's children. As they sat in front of a television that was blasting away, watching a film of horrors of varying kinds, the children were completely quiet. They were totally hooked."

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Looking at a television screen does not magically remove a child's energy from within him. A highly active child will remain inactive while watching TV because that is what the medium requires. In order to receive stimulation from the television, the child must be passive, and accept the predetermined flow rate of all the images. Both mind and body are passive (called an alpha state) allowing the child to concentrate on the vast array of bright moving pictures. Here is an account of a mother who does not allow her children to watch Disney films: To most of the people my age, it seems, this is a complete heretical stance. Everyone pities Maura, whose crazy, crazy mother doesn’t want her to watch Disney movies. I have yet to find anyone whom responds with “Oh, thank god, my kid isn’t allowed to watch them, either.” Though—surely someone else is bothered by this, right?) Here’s the thing, though: I really, really hate Disney movies. Almost across the board, the Disney movies (at least those with people in them—I admit

and powerful will want you for his bride. Note that I didn’t say his partner, or even his wife. No, he’ll want you for his bride, his beautiful trophy, nothing more. Usually when I try to explain this to most people, they immediately demand to know if I have seen Mulan. Yes, I have. And no, Maura hasn’t. For those of you who’ve not read the actual original poem upon which the movie was based, the whole point of the poem is that no one knew if she was a man or a woman, and it didn’t even matter because in war we are all affected. Her comrades didn’t know that she was a woman until after the war was won, when she returned home clad as a woman. When all this happens, it is pointed out again that it doesn’t matter that she’s a woman, and that it’s society, not nature, that separates the two sexes. So Disney’s interpretation of this —one in which she is outed as a woman early on, one in which it’s a plot point that she is a woman, leaves me cold. Mulan starts out promisingly: she’s not great at the

that I’ve seen very few of their animal-based animated films) hold up marriage, usually to someone completely inappropriate, as the holy grail. I remind you that these are the films being marketed to children, and that the overwhelming message in the end is this: Be pretty and kind and good, and maybe someone who is wealthy

feminine arts, and she runs off to join the army in her father’s place. And, okay, she’s made to look a fool in the early military training, but she soon proves herself and is as good and as strong as any of the men. That’s pretty awesome. And then she falls in love with her commanding officer, Shang. Okay. It happens sometimes.

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colors, quick movements and sudden flashes capture the child's attention. Only the rare child finds the television completely uninteresting. Even if only cartoons are watched, most children find the images presented on the television set mesmerizing. Television programs have the power to influence a child’s entire daily schedule. “They say that they go to school ‘after Huckleberry Hound,’ eat a TV dinner ‘during Gilligan’s Island,’ and go to bed ‘after Charlie’s Angels,’” writes Kate Moody in the book, Growing Up on Television. Unsupervised, a child could watch television constantly with no tought. A widely quoted figure is that, on average, a child watches between four and five hours of television each weekday, and ten hours on Saturday and Sunday. In a July, 1996 speech, President Bill Clinton noted that, "a typical child watches 25,000 hours of television before his or her 18th birthday. Preschoolers watch 28 hours of television a week." In the life of children, watching television is a significant sensory experience. Many children easily spend more time with the box than they do with any other form of entertainment. "Each year children read less and less and watch television more and more. In fact, Americans of all ages watch more television each year," writes Moody. "The typical child sits in front of the television four hours HASaAday, MAJOR EFFECT and for children in lower socioeconomic families the amount of time thus spent is even greater. In either case, the child spends more time with TV than he or she spends talking to parents, playing with peers, attending school, or reading books. TV time usurps family time, play time, and the reading time that could promote language development." Watching TV is surely a passive event. Children and even adults remain completely immobile while viewing the box. Most viewing experiences, at least among Americans, are bothventirely quiet and noninteractive. All of the attention is given to the images. "Just like the operating room light, television creates an environment that assaults and overwhelms the child; he can respond to it only by bringing into play his shutdown mechanism, and thus become more passive," states a pediatrician quoted in the Moody book. "I have observed this in my own children, and I have seen it in other people's children. As they sat in front of a television that was blasting away, watching a film of horrors of varying kinds, the children were completely quiet. They were totally hooked."

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ful trophy, nothing more. Usually when I try to explain this to most people, they immediately demand to know if I have seen Mulan. Yes, I have. And no, Maura hasn’t. M E DFor I A those of you who’ve not read the actual original poem upon which the movie was based, the whole point of the poem is that no one knew if she was a man or a woman, and it didn’t even matter because in war we are all affected. Her comrades didn’t know that she was a woman until after the war was won, when she returned home clad as a woman. When all this happens, it is pointed out again that it doesn’t matter that she’s a woman, and that it’s society, not nature, that separates the two sexes. So Disney’s interpretation of this —one in which she is outed as a woman early on, one in which it’s a plot point that she is a woman, leaves me cold. Mulan starts out promisingly: she’s not great at the

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2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2008

¥1,672,423

¥966,534

¥509,240

¥515,292

¥514,805

¥16,724,230

487,220

226,024

90,349

111,522

107,683

4,872,202

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CUMULATIVE UNIT SALES Nintendo

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2007-2008 Video Game

99% ($3.31 billion)

Industry Revenue Growth ($3.35 billion)

Gameboy Advance

JAPAN Wii DS Gamecube

Other

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1% ($.035 billion)

8,000,000

AMERICA Wii

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DS Gamecube

Wii

Gameboy Advance

4,000,000

PSP

OTHER

PS3

Wii

2,000,000

PS2

Gamecube

Xbox

Gameboy Advance

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS As of March 31, Assets Current assets Cash and deposits Notes and accounts receivable-trade Short-term investment securities Inventories Deferred tax assets Other (Note 5 C) Allowance for doubtful accounts Total current assets Noncurrent assets Buildings and structures Machinery, equipment and vehicles Tools, furniture and fixtures Land

2008

2007

2008

Construction in progress ¥899,251

¥962,197

$8,992,510

147,787 353,070 104,842

89,666 115,971 88,609

1,477,873 3,530,700 1,048,423

38,032 106,028 (2,176)

35,631 104,483 (1,886)

380,323 1,060,280 (21,763)

1,646,834

1,394,673

16,468,348

16,784

18,022

1,734 6,072 30,267

1,134 5,629 32,595

167,846 17,346 60,722

Total property, plant and equipment Intangible assets Software etc. Software Other Total intangible assets

2008

2007

292

217

2,920

2008

55,150

57,600

551,506

– 542 1,467

505 – –

– 5,420 14,678

2,009

505

20,098

73,758 23,541

92,412 14,414

737,562 235,418

Investments and other assets

302,670

Investment securities (Note 5 B) Deferred tax assets Other Allowance for doubtful accounts

1,196 (0)

16,001 (10)

11,969 (0)

Total investments and other assets

98,495

122,818

984,950

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