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This year, the results could be different. Especially for the heavies, whose closet margin of victory over an Eastern team was a three second win over Princeton at the Redwood Shores Regatta in mid-April...
...William Reeves of Pixar, a computer manufacturer in San Rafael, Calif., won the first Academy Award given for a totally computer-generated film -- a short subject called Tin Toy that starred a rambunctious baby and a windup music man. Says Jaron Lanier, founder of VPL Research, a small Redwood City, Calif., company that makes the equipment used to help people enter a computer-generated world: "This is the year that this stuff is finally starting to work...
...looking in the Crimson trophy case for the Adams Cup, well...no it's not hidden behind the Stein Trophy, the Redwood Shores Trophy, the Compton Cup, the Worcester Bowl, the Sexton Cup and the national championship trophy...
...regatta was particularly important for the Radcliffe crew because both Princeton and Cornell entered the race undefeated in Ivy League competition. Last week, the Radcliffe team beat Princeton in Redwood Shores, Ca., in races that don't count in the Ivy standings...
...Redwood Shores Classic is billed as the "Best of the East versus the Best of the West," and this year, the East reigned preeminent. The only western team (out of four) to pull out a quarterfinal victory was Washington, which outlasted Wisconsin by 2.3 seconds (5:53.90 to 5:56.20). The final tally: East--a 6-3 record and the champion and runner-up; West--a 1-4 record and a wounded pride...