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This section presents news briefs. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Nation Contributor Studs Terkel, a hopeful 92, will be awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Book Critics Circle at a March 4 ceremony. Terkel's latest book is Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times (New Press). Re keeping the faith: Paul Robeson, the great actor, singer and social activist, who was ostracized during his lifetime as a Communist and denied a passport, has been honored by the US Postal Service with a stamp, part of the service's Black Heritage series. Recently, the religiously righteous American Family Association ran a website poll on gay marriage, hoping to troll a landslide of "nays" to show Washington lawmakers. As of January 19 more than 60 percent of the online respondents said they favored same-sex marriage. Manufacturers are moving ahead with plans to equip consumer goods with wireless tracking devices called Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID).