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NOTE: Excerpting does not do the article justice. Read the whole thing. # SNIPPET: "He was a fundraiser for a group convicted of providing material support to Hamas, yet Kifah Mustapha recently received tours of secure FBI facilities in and around Washington. Mustapha's two-day trip earlier this month was arranged by the FBI's Chicago office, whose officials escorted Mustapha and about two dozen others on tours of the National Counterterrorism Center, the FBI facility in Quantico, Virginia and FBI headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building. A news report noted that Mustapha "asked some of the most pointed questions" during...

A proposed delay in the digital television transition will apparently have no impact on Hawaii's go-early time of noon Thursday. "We're planning to do the transition as scheduled Jan. 15, 2009, in accordance with the request from Hawaii's broadcasting community," said Lyle Ishida, Hawaii DTV transition manager for the Federal Communications Commission. A proposal by the Consumers Union Wednesday spread through Washington, D.C. like wildfire and was reiterated by President-elect Barack Obama yesterday, citing concern for consumers unprepared for the Feb. 17 national transition date. As of Monday, Hawaii requests for DTV converter box coupons were at 53,012, while...

Reuters RESEARCHERS who used cloned embryonic stem cells to treat Parkinson's disease in mice said today they worked better than other cells. The researchers were trying to prove that it is possible to make embryonic stem cells using cloning technology and use them to provide a tailor-made treatment. But they found that a mouse's own cloned stem cells were far less disruptive to its body than cloned cells taken from other mice. "It demonstrated what we suspected all along - that genetically matched tissue works better," said Viviane Tabar of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York, who worked on the...

I have to ask this question. A lady who I work with likes to listen to her soaps over the TV audio on her radio. She asked me that after NTSC broadcasts are stopped in February 2009, will she still be able to get channels 2 thru 13 audio. I told her no, I'm assuming the analogue TV sound will cease to be broadcast as well but I'm looking for a definite answer. Am I right is assuming her TV audio radio will be no good after 2009?