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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World Championships in Roudnice, Czech Republic, Harvard lightweight Coach Charlie Butt co-coached the national four with coxswain heavyweight crew alongside renowned coach Mike Spracklin...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: The Search for Perfection: A New Technique Keyed National Champs | 11/12/1993 | See Source »

...sport in which wins and losses depend as much on trigonometry and physics as brute strength and coordination, Spracklin, according to Butt, refined Butt's understanding of a rowing technique that would make Harvard's season extraordinary...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: The Search for Perfection: A New Technique Keyed National Champs | 11/12/1993 | See Source »

Spracklin taught Butt an approach to familiarizing his crew with the stroke which maximized the work done by the oar blade in the water based on this principle: If a blade is forced into the water hard enough, Spracklin said, a mound of water forms in front of the blade that exerts a backwards force on the blade and thereby holds it firmly in the water...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: The Search for Perfection: A New Technique Keyed National Champs | 11/12/1993 | See Source »

...Butt said that he just took a different educational tack, using physics to give the crew a better understanding of how an efficient stroke worked...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: The Search for Perfection: A New Technique Keyed National Champs | 11/12/1993 | See Source »

Some of the rides are almost mystical. In Virtual Adventures, by Iwerks Entertainment, you glide underwater to rescue rare eggs hatched by a benevolent Loch Ness creature. The other games are a mix of Captain Kirk and Beavis and Butt-head; this one is Barney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look! Up on the screen! It's a galaxy! It's a killer robot! It's . . . VIRTUAL, MAN! | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

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