Websites that were once just 50 kilobytes of text and tiny pictures now come with music, video and animated graphics.

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Users can track pro football players from Notre Dame or pitchers from Venezuela, listen to events and get animated graphics updated pitch-by-pitch.

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Finalists: Dan Egan of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for his exhaustive examination of the struggle to keep Asian carp and other invasive species from reaching the Great Lakes and ultimately all of the nation's inland waters, a story enhanced by animated graphics, and Tony Bartelme of The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.

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As avid fans of comic books and animated movies, he and his colleagues share a graphics culture that helps them to decide on the visual look of the game.

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Conference representatives said 1997 will be the year of the Internet, in which cyberspace becomes more lifelike though advanced graphics and such features as three-dimensional chat rooms where users can communicate using animated characters.

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