Word: rodent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adopted son, as he is in the film, than their natural offspring, as he was in E.B. White's classic children's novel. He is, after all, a wee mouse. But sooner or later, in both cases, disbelief is suspended, and we take the brave, chipper and very decent rodent (voiced by Michael J. Fox) to heart. Though Stuart's adventures seem more breathless onscreen than they did on the page, the blend of digital animation and live action is first rate. Eventually Stuart wins over even Snowbell, the Littles' cat (Nathan Lane). That scheming feline is a tougher audience...
...path to overturning the dogma of the rigid brain was circuitous. In the early 1960s biologists discovered that new cells were being made in two areas of the adult rat brain, but the discovery was regarded as an unimportant peculiarity of the rodent brain and quickly forgotten. In the mid-1980s, Fernando Nottebohm of Rockefeller University brought new respect to the term birdbrain by demonstrating that the brain of an adult canary has the astonishing ability to regenerate new nerve cells at a rate of up to 20,000 a day. Other researchers reported similar regenerative ability in fish...
...COMMERCE WITH A GREEN THUMB Point your mouse toward www.garden.com for a virtual gardening store with an environmental bent. Texas-based Garden.com claims that more than half its 16,000 products, like a rodent-repelling spray made from rotten eggs, are organic and annoying only to pests...
...chosen cast of voices (Ian Holm stands out as smarmy pig propagandist Squealer) and eerie visuals, from the crudely painted ANIMAL FARM sign at the commune's entrance to the pigs' grisly show trials. You'll have a hard time setting a rattrap after seeing a scapegoated (scape-ratted?) rodent swinging from a gallows. The film retains both the Russian Revolution parallels and Orwell's timeless warnings against slippery language and manipulation; in a clever if heavy-handed addition, pigs salvage a TV set from the farmhouse to keep the animals docile. And the filmmakers use ingenious images to dramatize...
...Euro Disney theme park ? was snubbed by the locals when he first arrived. Opened in 1992, the park got off to a rocky start and was heavily rumored to be closing. But since Disney adapted to their language and customs, the French have taken the Magic Kingdom and its rodent monarch to heart. And on Wednesday Euro Disney announced that it will open a second theme park in 2002 adjacent to Disneyland Paris. "Les Studios Disney" will cost $650 million, and will offer behind-the-scenes looks at the movies. "Disney has succeeded in making a visit to the theme...