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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- OK, boys and girls, including all you chiffon-wearing princesses - it's time to go to your rooms and close your eyes and dream of whatever it is little darlings dream about these days. They gone? Good. Fellow adults, we're going to spend the next couple of pages talking about Walt Disney World for grown-ups. There are people, and you know who you are, who only come to Disney World hauling kids with them. Nothing wrong with that. I've done Disney with kids and lived.

Baltimore's Port Discovery children's museum will turn 10 in December, which is older than most of the kids who come through its doors, and it has launched a year of festivities to celebrate the milestone. Museum leaders recently unveiled the first new permanent exhibit since the building opened -- a $400,000 aquatic playground called Wonders of Water. They've also scheduled a series of programs and events called Ten for Ten to mark the anniversary and give visitors different experiences throughout the year.

Miss Hurd was killed and her fiance, Patrick Richardson, seriously injured when a tractor-trailer struck and crushed their car while they were waiting at a stop light. The couple were en route to a meeting with a wedding planner and her parents, who were visiting from Abingdon when the accident occurred. Heather Leigh Hurd was born in Baltimore and raised in Middle River and Abingdon. She was a 1999 graduate of Edgewood High School and earned an associate's degree from Harford Community College.

JOYCE CARLSON, 84 Disney artist Joyce Carlson, a Disney artist who helped create the idyllic universe of singing children at "It's a Small World" rides across the globe, died of cancer Wednesday at her home, the Walt Disney Co. said. In a 56-year career with Disney, Ms. Carlson went from delivering paints and brushes to animators to inking films herself, and her work on "It's a Small World" is enjoyed by millions of visitors each year. Ms. Carlson was among the creators of a miniature prototype of "It's a Small World" for the 1964 World's Fair in New York.

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When Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Fla., in 1971, my parents wasted no time in taking my sister Nancy and me, and our best friend, Carolyn. We stayed in the Contemporary Resort, took the monorail to the Magic Kingdom, and could not imagine anything better. Universal Studios Florida debuted in 1990 and I showed up soon after to check it out - this time pushing my own little boys in a stroller, and meeting Carolyn and her son at the gate. We spent a lot of time in Fievel's Playland.