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...What's it like for the rowers to compete in such a large event, or to coach in such a large event? CB: Oh, it's exciting to go from a non-spectator sport like rowing 2 to 300,000 people on the shore. That's exciting anywhere. There are very few sports that collect more than 80 or a 100,000 live...
...have you seen the race change over the years? CB: Oh, it's larger, and there's more corporate sponsorship, you hear about it on the radio more. The organization itself is larger, and a few years ago when there was a cancellation, I assume that's because the conditions weren't that bad, but I think it was underwritten to protect some of the corporate sponsors from accidents, and it was left in the underwriters hands, and I think that's why they said no, because they thought they'd be too vulnerable...
...CB ski jacket...
...people call it the last frontier," says Woody, 55, a retired truck driver, after a cooldown in his outdoor bathtub. While Woody dunked his derriere, fellow resident Linda Barnett, under a military camouflage net, delivered the nightly CB broadcast of camp doings and items for sale or barter...
...best part of 15 years now, Steve Case has nurtured a vision. Back in the days when modems creaked along at 300 bits a second, when it took half an hour to download a small black-and-white photo and when most Americans were obsessing over CB radios, Case imagined a world where ordinary folk, like the ones he grew up with in Hawaii, would find real utility in connected computers...