According to today's (Thursday, August 25) NEWSDAY, "Saying the 50-year-old Plum Island Animal Disease Center is becoming obsolete, the federal government is beginning to look at whether the lab should be rebuilt on the island or replaced by new facilities elsewhere." For the complete article, "Era to end at Plum Island: Feds set 2011 date to replace the aging animal-disease center -- or find a new site away from LI", please go to (you'll need to copy and paste the entire URL, beginning with "http" and ending with "-print"): http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-liplum254397204aug25,0, 4533657.story?coll=ny-linews-print Plum Island is in the extreme northeast part of Long Island, and is located in Long Island Sound, between the Hamlet of Orient and the island Hamlet of Fishers Island in the Town of Southold, Suffolk County. I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. L'Shannah Tovah* & Happy 5766, Walter Greenspan * L'Shannah Tovah (li-SHAH-nuh TOH-vuh; li-shah-NAH toh-VAH) Hebrew. Lit. for a good year. The common greeting during Rosh ha Shannah and the Days of Awe. This is a shortening of "L'Shannah tovah tikatev v'taihatem" (or, to women, "L'Shannah tovah tikatevi v'taihatemi"), which means, "May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year." This year, Rosh ha Shannah begins at sunset on Monday, October 3 on the civil calendar.