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...someone used to ambidextrous computing-a Windows machine on my right and a Mac to my left-I have been using two-button scroll-wheel mice on both systems for years. In Mac OS 9 (and perhaps even earlier), the act of clicking while holding down the control key for contextual pop-up menus could be duplicated by right-clicking a USB-connected Windows mouse. That feature has been around so long it's a wonder Apple didn't launch a two-button mouse years back...
...mouse must have the two principal buttons, the scroll wheel and a "back" button for speedier web surfing. (Turns out, "forward" buttons is not in terribly high demand, which makes sense if you think about it.) Mighty Mouse's side buttons, pressed individually or in tandem, can be customized to launch Expos?, Dashboard, the Application Switcher, Spotlight, or any application of your choice. Still, the side buttons cannot be assigned something as basic as a "back" feature, a.k.a. command-left-arrow...
...mouse does have some nifty technology. Its scroll wheel is actually more of a track ball, capable of wiggling a page both up and down and side to side in a fairly fluid motion. Other mouse makers have clunkier separate controls rather than a smooth combined one. Also, touch sensitivity means that the mouse simply knows what you meant right click or middle click or left click. There's no need for separate buttons handling each click...
...library. I have simply added one more book." But what a book: 80 generations of the descendants of one Abraham of Jerusalem are traced as they wander in exile across the oceans and the earth. Each is sustained by his family's faith, represented by a religious and biographical scroll handed on from one generation to the next...
...Abraham escapes Roman soldiers. He flees to Alexandria with his sons, who thrive until a civil war inflames the population. His grandson ventures to Rome, where persecutions resume; a few chapters later, a descendant is in North Africa, courting the daughter of a Jewish Berber. The holders of the scroll move to Spain, to Narbonne, to Italy and Salonika, Holland and Paris and Poland, where the final chapter is inscribed in ashes...