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...Walt Disney style, stressing sympathetic characters and seamless storytelling. DreamWorks (the Shrek trilogy, Shark Tale) updates the dazzle and impudence of the Warner Bros. cartoon studio of the '30s, '40s and '50s - a faster pace, lots of sight gags and pop-culture allusions; its movies tend toward anarchy but land in vaudeville. DreamWorks is contemporary, Pixar timeless. Both work. (See the 100 best albums, movies, TV shows and novels of all time...
...Fang suit up to do battle with their nemeses, a group of non-beer-drinking, role-playing geeks (who seem to be involved in a real life version of Dungeons and Dragons, or something equally cool). At this point, our aluminum-clad heroes rush down from above and land heavy blows on the role players—the dork playing the knight, for example, gets smashed with a hammer made from a five-liter keg can. But Red Fang hasn’t learned the very valuable lesson that the “Revenge of the Nerds” movies...
Under the terms of a deal between the clan and scientists, the land will be used for research on climate change in a joint venture that includes Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Center for Tropical Forest Science...
...exchange for the use of the land, some of the Wanang will receive jobs assisting with the scientific research, according to William Tootle, program manager for CTFS...
...species richness is supposedly astronomical,” Tootle said, noting that Papua New Guinea is home to 5 percent of the Earth’s biodiversity despite making up only one half of 1 percent of the planet’s land area...