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NORRIE MAY-WELBY, who became the first person in the world to be classified as genderless after Australian officials altered May-Welby's birth certificate to read "neuter...
...prominent dissident family at odds with the rulers in Kathmandu at the time--and grew up steeped in the secular traditions of South Asia's independence movements. Koirala's bearing, to the end of his days, was not unlike that of India's own apostle of democracy and first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru: austere and gaunt, forever garbed in an elegant blazer and his trademark Nepali...
...least Oscar voters seem to think so. Nine years ago, when the award for Best Animated Feature was established, DreamWorks got the first one, for Shrek. Since then, Katzenberg's products have been shut out (the studio distributed one Oscar winner, Nick Park's veddy English Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit), while Pixar has taken five: Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL•E and Up. This year, DreamWorks' perky Monsters vs Aliens was not even one of the five finalists. "Each year I do one DreamWorks project," actor Jack Black told the crowd...
...Aboard the Dragon Train Fun is the first of the goals set by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Dragon's directors and (with Will Davies) writers, for their version of the Cressida Cowell book. Their teen hero, Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel from She's Out of My League), is the underachieving son of a fierce Viking warlord, Stoick (300's very own Gerard Butler), whose tribe has been battling dragons for centuries. When Hiccup wounds an elusive creature called the Night Fury, no one believes him. Soon he tames, trains and learns to ride the beast, thus schooling...
...first year in the Compact, however, when she and her cohort neared a jubilee day, on which they'd celebrate by buying something new, Kesel went into a store, eager to purchase a windbreaker she'd had her eye on. But she was unable to close the deal. "I couldn't get jubilant," she says. "I think my credit-card arm has been broken...