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The Two-Way
7:53 am
Fri April 26, 2013

Dozens Dead After Fire In Russian Psychiatric Hospital

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Firefighters battling the blaze at a psychiatric hospital north of Moscow early Friday.
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An estimated 38 people died early Friday at a psychiatric hospital north of Moscow when a fire swept through the facility.

The state news agency RIA Novosti says it has been told by a "police source" that most of the victims "died in their sleep [from] inhaling the fumes as they were likely sedated by prescribed medicine."

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The Two-Way
7:18 am
Fri April 26, 2013

Book News: DeLillo Wins First Library Of Congress Fiction Prize

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Don DeLillo at the 2012 Carl Sandburg Literary Awards dinner in Chicago.
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By Annalisa Quinn

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.

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The Two-Way
7:00 am
Fri April 26, 2013

Boston Bombing Suspect Moved To Prison Medical Center

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in an undated photo released by the FBI.
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Originally published on Fri April 26, 2013 11:52 am

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings and the crimes that followed, has been moved out of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center "and is now confined at the Bureau of Prisons facility FMC Devens at Ft. Devens, Mass.," U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Drew Wade said in a statement emailed to reporters Friday morning.

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The Salt
4:33 am
Fri April 26, 2013

Join Us In The NPR Virtual Coffeehouse Friday At Noon Eastern

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Originally published on Fri April 26, 2013 1:28 pm

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Space
3:03 am
Fri April 26, 2013

Can You Hear Me Now? Cellphone Satellites Phone Home

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Three PhoneSats, like the one seen here during a high-altitude balloon test, were launched into space on Sunday. The slightly modified cellphone satellites cost a few thousand dollars in parts.
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The PhoneSats are approximately the size of a coffee cup.
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Originally published on Fri April 26, 2013 6:59 pm

Smartphones can check e-mail, record videos and even stream NPR. Now NASA has discovered they make pretty decent satellites, too. Three smart phones launched into space this past Sunday are orbiting above us even now, transmitting data and images back to Earth. The PhoneSats, which cost just a few thousand dollars each, could usher in big changes for the satellite industry.

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