Word: mastering
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...MASTER GENEALOGIST from Wholly Genes software (about $89 for the gold version; $49 for the silver; Windows), one of the most expensive programs but also one of the most powerful, handles an unlimited number of people, relationships and sources. "There are easier programs," admits Wholly Genes president Bob Velke, 36, "but they're nowhere near as powerful. This has all the power and flexibility that professionals need, but you don't need to be a pro to use it." (www.wholly genes.com or call 877-TMG-FAMILY...
...Jack, to make a complicated and convoluted history seem both very straightforward and very real; distant and lionized legends like Wild Bill Hickok become poignantly human through Jack's unique perspective and experience. In his novel The Return of little Big Man, Thomas Berger proves himself to be a master of the storytelling craft through an engaging narrative that tells history through fiction in the most fulfilling...
Perhaps the tragedy of Hemingway's legacy isthat it appeals with visceral force only those ofhis generation, the young men who would dance withbulls in cafes, imitating the master. The crucialfact is that the famous epigraph to The Sun AlsoRises--Stein's "You are all a Lost Generation"--isneither pretentious nor empty: for Hemingway andfor many of his contemporaries, the assertionthrough life and through writing of theunflinching code of sportsmen’s honor was not asilly return to childhood but a search for a codeof behavior that meant something in a post-Warworld where the land of childhood...
...hints for newcomers to the game are simple: "Patience, luck, good legs and paranoia. Lots and lots of paranoia," Lim advises. But even an assassin master cannot hold off death all the time. About two hours before the game ended, two sneaky killers managed to gun him down in cold blood. "It was rather embarrassing," Lim says...
...mood for High Times, the magazine for pot smokers (this week featuring the Beastie Boys' DJ Mix Master Mike), then you can also find books on Bill Clinton, environmentalism and exercise...