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HEFER VALLEY, Israel — The new crisp, acidic and mineral white from a high-end Israeli winery was aged for eight months — or, depending on how you look at it, at least 1,800 years. The wine, called marawi and released last month by Recanati Winery, is the first commercially produced by Israel’s growing modern industry from indigenous grapes. It grew out of a groundbreaking project at Ariel University in the occupied West Bank that aims to use DNA testing to identify — and recreate — ancient wines drunk by the likes of King David and Jesus Christ. Eliyashiv Drori, the...

We'll never know if Congressman Keith Ellison (AKA Keith Hakim, AKA Keith X Ellison, AKA Keith Ellison-Muhammad, AKA BooHoo Kaboom) brought along an onion with him, a pinch of snuff or just thought of all the CAIR campaign contributions he risked losing if the hearings fulfilled their intended purpose,to be able to let loose the waterworks. However he did it, Ellison finally succeeded at one thing. Crying on cue. The big boohoo let Ellison sell his sob story to a sympathetic public already primed by thousands of attack pieces run against King. A campaign conducted by a top Democratic public...

H.R.3162 Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE I--ENHANCING DOMESTIC SECURITY AGAINST TERRORISM SEC. 101. COUNTERTERRORISM FUND. (a) ESTABLISHMENT; AVAILABILITY- There is hereby established in the Treasury of the United States a separate fund to be known as the `Counterterrorism Fund', amounts in which shall remain available without fiscal year limitation-- (1) to reimburse any Department of Justice component for any costs incurred in connection with-- (A) reestablishing the operational capability of an office...

NEW YORK- World Trade Center victim Salman Hamdani - initially labeled a possible terrorist after Sept. 11 - was remembered at his long-delayed funeral as a hero lost in the twin towers' collapse while trying to rescue others. The 23-year-old Muslim, his remains in a flag-draped coffin at a Manhattan mosque, was hailed at Friday's service for a selfless and fatal choice made on his way to work: heading to ground zero and aiding his fellow Americans."We don't know how many people he helped, how many lives he saved," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said at the Islamic Cultural Center of...