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...seventh-graders are participants in the Project Athena program, which matches them with students from the Graduate School of Education taking "Psychology of Girls and Women," a class taught by Associate Professor of Education Annie G. Rogers...
...students act as mentors in the program, using in the real world what Rogers teaches them about the need for girls and women to have the courage to speak up for themselves, according to Instructor in Education Joann Stemmermann, the program coordinator...
GENERATIONS FAMILY TREE GRANDE SUITE ($69.95; Windows) by Sierra Home includes 12 CDs of data on 200 million names and resources, plus three different programs: the Generations genealogy software; SnapShot Special Edition, photo-enhancement software that helps you add old family photos and documents to your records; and MasterCook, a cooking software program (experts say recipe collecting is uncannily similar to ancestor collecting), allows you to rearrange your ancestors in a variety of formats with just a click of the mouse...
ULTIMATE FAMILY TREE (about $50 for the five-CD platinum version; $30 for the two-CD deluxe; Windows) by Palladium is another top-selling program whose own genealogy is as complex as any family's. Palladium was bought out in December by the Learning Company, which two months earlier had acquired Broderbund, which itself had acquired two other genealogy-software publishers. A few days after the Palladium deal was announced, Mattel said it would buy the Learning Company...
Devoted fans of Ultimate Family Tree are worried that the product might not survive, but the company insists there's plenty of room in a growing field where different programs appeal to different audiences. In UFT's case, the new owners are touting it as a user-friendly but powerful program that should appeal to more experienced genealogists than buyers of Family Tree Maker. Most of these products can still be used by either amateurs or professionals, depending on which user interface you like best and how much you want to spend...