Her offer of a magazine to a tired, scared and lonely soldier has echoed throughout my life.

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Some Boys Life magazine offer features like buying guide for personal electronic gadgets for older boys including cars, digital cameras, MP3 players and more.

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And, really, Oprah continues to offer her favorite things list in her magazine, O.

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Recently, we received an offer for a free issue of the magazine.

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Although newspapers including The Wall Street Journal already offer such an option, SI is the first magazine to do so, according to managing editor Terry McDonell.

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As expected, the newfangled Mountain Lion operating system touts a number of added features -- some of which bring it even closer in sync with iOS. In this week's issue of our e-magazine, the beast steps out into the spotlight and we offer a word or two (a few thousand, to be exact) in our full-length review of the software.

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They get adults interested in the film, give it a degree of respectability, and offer the ability to promote a given film across a variety of media outlets (magazine covers, talk show interviews, etc.) that the likes of the admittedly talented Nicholas Hoult from Jack the Giant Slayer does not.

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