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...Alex Haley's 1977 mini-series Roots, eventually watched by hundreds of millions worldwide. Today a quarter of the 300,000 amateur genealogists who visit the Denver Public Library each year are Hispanic. Ukrainian Americans register inquiries at www.carpatho-rusyn.org and Cajuns can search for their ancestors on a CD-ROM of half a million names, compiled by Acadian genealogist Yvon Cyr. In San Francisco, educator Albert Cheng, who has traced 2,800 years of his family history, leads a program for the Chinese Culture Foundation, which takes groups of Chinese-American youths back to their ancestral villages each summer after...
...word processing), Outlook (for e-mail), Excel (for spreadsheets), Access (for databases) and Powerpoint (to make tedious, overhead-style slides for interminable meetings). The premium package adds the Web-page builder FrontPage; the image manipulator PhotoDraw; and Publisher, a desktop publishing program. It comes on an intimidating four (!) CD-ROMs, but I needed to install only the first disk to get started; the others hold supplementary material that many users won't need...
...regional service like MindSpring or EarthLink; access with e-mail and unlimited use should cost roughly $20 a month. Once you're online, spend some time browsing the Web to get a sense of how other businesses are presenting themselves. Try buying something like a book or a CD online to see how the process works. Stake out your virtual competition; remember once your business is online, your old nemesis down the block will no longer be your only rival...
...supposed to write about "the future of techno" in this column, but really I don't know anything about techno or rave music, although I've heard my CD collection referred to as both (if anyone dares to use the phrase "electronica"...) What I do know a bit about is house music, and it's hard to say anything definitive about a genre that spins off a few hundred subgenres a year. But I'll hazard guesses about the near future. What I loved in 1998 was the emergence of the French disco house genre with a retro sound that...
...those who judge a CD by its looks, beware. Under its shoddy cover, Best of Planet Groove is surprisingly pleasant and worthy for music listeners of all levels. Beginners will taste a range of classic hip hop, ballad and R&B tunes of '97 while experts may feel nostalgic as they listen to the music that initially lured them to this genre of mesmerizing vocals and rhythms. The selection is both random and diverse, including pieces such as the extremely slow and dangerously sexy "Be Careful" by R. Kelly and upbeat yet sensuous "It's All About...