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NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from the Hague where the war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs today in a landmark prosecution of rape and sexual enslavement as crimes against humanity.

For a psychiatrist, cigarettes can be a tool of therapy. Commentator Elissa Ely knows the unhealthy habit of smoking is a powerful motivation for patients in the psych ward.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on backlash against former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on a new study out today concluding that there's no proof that devices intended to help smokers quit actually reduce lung and heart disease or are safe to use over long periods.

Noah Adams talks with Emmanuel Madan and Thomas McIntosh about their sonic project, the Silophone. The two artists, who call themselves The User, have given an old grain silo in Montreal a new function by rigging it with broadcast lines and microphones. People can call into the Silophone or submit sounds over the Internet. (5:30) See www.silophone.net

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that thousands of colleagues of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt gathered for a brief memorial service today in Charlotte, N.C.

The sporadic fighting that continues in the air above Iraq flared again today as US planes struck anti-aircraft artillery installations and surface-to-air missile sites in northern Iraq. And Pentagon officials today admitted that some of the weapons used in last week's mission landed well off their targets. From the Pentagon, NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

The state of Massachusetts won a settlement worth more than $7 billion from tobacco companies to cover the cost of treating sick smokers. But the state has also continued to seize assets from the families of those smokers to cover the cost of Medicaid payments. Attorney Louis Massery filed a class action lawsuit against the state on behalf of the families of dead smokers, accusing the state of double-dipping. Noah Adams talks with Massery about the suit.

A scented room spray has caused a cluster of rare bacterial infections in the South and Midwest. 3,900 bottles of the room spray are being recalled, and users are being warned to bleach their sheets.

New York City taxi drivers are now in the second week of a hunger strike outside City Hall in Manhattan. They're demanding debt relief for thousands of drivers who are facing financial ruin.