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...Bird flu has already killed 32 of the 44 people infected in Asia this year, and the news isn't getting better. Fortunately the only way the disease seems to spread to humans is through close contact with infected birds, although rare cases of human-to-human transmission have occurred. But if bird flu mutates and gains the ability to transmit as easily as normal flu-and scientists say that is a real possibility-it could trigger a worldwide pandemic similar to that in 1918. That prospect was raised last week, when Dr. Shigeru Omi, the World Health Organization...
...Everything changes when Bob receives a communiqué calling for Mr. Incredible’s help in a top-secret mission on a mysterious island. The mission eventually pulls the entire Incredibles family into a battle to save the world from their nemesis, Syndrome (Jason Lee). Writer-director Brad Bird (Iron Giant, The Simpsons), who serves triple duty as the voice of the temperamental superhero fashion designer Edna Mode, has created a film that skillfully blends the excitement of a superhero movie with a carefully-measured dose of family film sensitivity...
...about this idea. A superficial flip-though won't provide an answer. The 23 contributions cross boundaries of tone, subject and style. Leela Corman's emotionally raw tenement story of a young girl facing the mysteries of womanhood looks almost like a child's therapy comic. Eleanor Davis' "The Bird Eater," rendered in a style reminiscent of Aesop's fable woodcuts, tells a strange parable of a monster that terrorizes a community of tree-dwelling gnomes. Non-fiction also appears in the form of Gabriella's Gamboa's curious history of the Fox sisters, a trio of phony spiritualists from...
...premiere of the film this evening in the Carpenter Center’s theater, the project’s two curators, artist Pierre Huyghe, along with Corbusier’s little bird will all watch the screen as their marionette representations, now enlarged into life-size projections, move across the screen. Behind the puppets sits a scale model of the Carpenter Center—a set-piece and puppet at once—the whole event having been filmed within the building in which it is being screened...
...Everything changes when Bob receives a communiqué calling for Mr. Incredible’s help in a top-secret mission on a mysterious island. The mission eventually pulls the entire Incredibles family into a battle to save the world from their nemesis, Syndrome (Jason Lee). Writer-director Brad Bird (Iron Giant, The Simpsons) has created a film that skillfully blends the excitement of a superhero movie with a carefully-measured dose of family film sensitivity...