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Produced by NPR in Washington, D.C., Morning Edition draws on reporting from correspondents based in 13 countries around the world, and producers and reporters in 19 locations in the U.S. Their reporting is supplemented by NPR member station reporters across the country and a strong corps of independent producers and reporters in the public radio system.

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Strange News
5:09 am
Mon March 11, 2013

Widow Sues Church Over Sports-Themed Headstone

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Originally published on Mon March 11, 2013 6:23 am

An Indiana woman wanted to honor her late husband with a headstone shaped like a couch, and featuring Indianapolis Colts and NASCAR logos. St. Joseph's Catholic Church said the headstone is completely inappropriate — so the widow sued.

Strange News
5:08 am
Mon March 11, 2013

Tattoo Gets Man Free Netflix For A Year

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Originally published on Mon March 11, 2013 6:23 am

Myron Robinson managed to score a year of free Netflix videos and online streaming by tweeting a photo of his new Netflix tattoo. The company tweeted back, "No way! Free year for you!"

Art & Design
3:41 am
Mon March 11, 2013

For John Baldessari, Conceptual Art Means Serious Mischief

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"Cutting Ribbon, Man In Wheelchair, Paintings (Version #2), 1988" shows John Baldessari's signature technique, faces covered with colorful circles. The practice had its genesis when the artist idly stuck a price sticker on the face of someone pictured in a newspaper clipping.
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In 1970, John Baldessari burned everything he had painted between 1953 and 1966. "I said ... 'I don't really need them.' So I decided I'll just destroy them." After that, Baldessari turned to photography and sculpture.
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"Pure Beauty," shown here at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2010, is one of John Baldessari's many provocative "text paintings."
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Originally published on Tue March 12, 2013 1:14 pm

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Shots - Health News
3:41 am
Mon March 11, 2013

New Voices For The Voiceless: Synthetic Speech Gets An Upgrade

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Samantha Grimaldo was born with a rare disorder, Perisylvian syndrome, and has never been able to speak.
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Joseph, Alexandra and Samantha Grimaldo sit around the kitchen counter in the family's home in Marlborough, Mass., playing with Samantha's voice app, though they mostly use sign language at home.
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Samantha uses a text-to-speech iPhone app to help her communicate. Here she shows the app interface.
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When Samantha was younger, she carried this device with her to help her communicate.
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Samantha watches her brother Nicholas play piano. Their mother says that a new customized voice created by researcher Rupal Patel from a young Samantha's voice sample is happy and has a sweetly familiar quality. "My son — my son Nicholas — I could hear some of his voice in it," she says.
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Samantha speaks with her mom, Ruane, about going to the movies with a friend.
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Samantha Grimaldo was born with a rare disorder, Perisylvian syndrome, and has never been able to speak.
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The text-to-speech iPhone app that Samantha Grimaldo uses has three voice options for her to choose from.
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Rupal Patel is a speech scientist at Northeastern University.
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Originally published on Wed March 13, 2013 12:23 pm

Ever since she was a small child, Samantha Grimaldo has had to carry her voice with her.

Grimaldo was born with a rare disorder, Perisylvian syndrome, which means that though she's physically capable in many ways, she's never been able to speak. Instead, she's used a device to speak. She types in what she wants to say, and the device says those words out loud. Her mother, Ruane Grimaldo, says that when Samantha was very young, the voice she used came in a heavy gray box.

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All Tech Considered
3:41 am
Mon March 11, 2013

Controlling Your Computer With A Wave Of Your Hand

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Festival attendees experiment with Leap Motion technology.
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Originally published on Mon March 11, 2013 7:48 am

If you've had wrist and shoulder pain from clicking a mouse, relief may be in sight. This spring, a new motion sensing device will go on sale that will make it possible for the average computer user to browse the Web and open documents with a wave of a finger.

The Leap Motion Controller is on display at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas, for the first time. It's one of the most talked about startups at the conference, where some 26,000 people have gathered to see emerging tech companies.

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