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...team, the film’s computer-generated content will be the draw for the vast majority of its young audience. No matter how photorealistic the images, how human the voices, for most viewers the movie will primarily be seen as pixels on the screen. But not for Brad Bird...
...have been a fixture of the restaurant since it opened a discreet door in 1984. Chef Cheung Kam-chuen, the establishment's guiding light from the beginning, has also devised commemorative dishes, including the spectacular Yunnan ham and flowering chives in a black truffle glaze, and poached lobster and bird's nest in egg white. "Guests have become increasingly discerning over the past 20 years," says Cheung. Fortunately, the restaurant has kept pace with them, every step...
Computer-animated movies were still theoretical back in 1975, when Bird, now 48, and Lasseter, 47, met as freshmen at California Institute of the Arts. "Brad and I were in the first year of the character-animation program," recalls Lasseter, "and we bonded with our love of cartoons. At that time animation was thought of as something just for children. But Brad and I believed animation was for everybody. That's the way Walt Disney made his films. That's the way Chuck Jones made his cartoons...
Impressive as these new discoveries are, they hardly mean that all the details of the dinosaur-bird link have been ironed out. While current thinking favors speedy predators like velociraptors as the direct ancestors of modern birds, both Chiappe and Norell argue that the birds' forebears could just as easily have been troodontids like Mei long or even oviraptors, another related type of dinosaur. (Several years ago in Mongolia, Norell and colleagues unearthed a fossil oviraptor sitting on its egg-filled nest.) And then there's also the open question of how flight evolved. Mei long, says Chiappe, was clearly...
Those are important points, and they may take years to work out. But the fact that paleontologists are focusing on such details makes it clear that the dinosaur-bird connection, so bitterly controversial just a few short years ago, is no longer in dispute. --Reported by Andrea Dorfman/New York