 *I don't have much time to comment tonight, but I believe that it's important to state in the lead in some fashion that a commercial clock was used. Mohamed admits that much himself, and also makes statements consistent with that (for example, on the amount of time put into his clock project). This is significant and noteworthy because the news media's coverage on this aspect of the situation has been misleading, by and large. Many teens have built clocks from scratch (and I'm not saying Mohamed also couldn't, or perhaps did at another time, but in this case, he clearly didn't); I've read many comments on different sites about people who did so as teens. Yet the media presented this as that he made the clock from scratch, and that was the basis for not only the perception that on the basis of this clock project alone, Mohamed is extremely talented, but also as part of his story on why he made the clock which the officials reacted to with suspicion. You can see the difference in that if Mohamed had spent some days or even hours on a truly homemade clock project, that clearly would have an impressed his teachers. Yet he spent minutes on a project in which he merely reassembled parts from a manufactured clock, and that teachers told him resembled a bomb. So this is an important part of the incident, given that it directly relates to the controversy in that it appears to be a factor in the school and police officials' questions over his motivations behind the project.   