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U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema sentences an unrepentant Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Moussaoui's final public words were that Americans would never catch Osama bin Laden.

Cash registers may be on the wane in some stores as more retailers help customers complete purchases using mobile devices. It's convenient for shoppers, and retailers benefit by leaving customers less time to change their mind about a purchase.

Writer Judith Shulevitz started observing Shabbat because of her own ambivalence about the traditional weekly day of rest. Her own experiences with the ritual — as well as its larger historical context — are examined in her new book, The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time.

To see if low blood sugar sours even good relationships, scientists used an unusual tool: voodoo dolls representing spouses. As hunger levels rose, so did the number of pins.

Mount Healthy United Methodist Church in suburban Cincinnati offered a drive-thru blessing. Believers could get the traditional cross of ashes smudged onto their foreheads without getting out of their cars.

Glitter, vocal gymnastics, on-stage flames — the show goes on on the Eurovision stage in Vienna, even though five countries are boycotting this year's contest due to Israel's participation.

Linda talks to Marita Brunner (BREW ner) the founder of Flight 427 Air Disaster Support League. She had a relative on board the USAir flight that crash near Pittsburgh in the fall of 1994. She says relatoves and friends of victims of air crashes have to suffer the deaths plus the fact they often do not have a say on burial and retrieval of posessions. She says the Florida crash will bring the extra pain of perhaps no way to retrieve remains at all. She asked that for our web page we include the following: Natl Air Disaster Alliane 412-572-6427 PO Box 13117, Akron OH 44313.

Also: Katherine Boo, Robert Hass win PEN Literary Awards; gender at The New York Review of Books; John Cheever's prison visit.

In 1997, All Things Considered senior host Robert Siegel first interviewed Jeremy Armstrong, sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing another man. He was just 15 when he committed the crime, but was sentenced as an adult under the state's new "get-tough" juvenile justice policies. Siegel catches up with Armstrong, now living in a medium-security lockup -- listen to past interviews with Armstrong as Siegel follows his progress.

One of the medical workers released in Bulgaria on Tuesday after eight years in a Libyan prison said she had tried to kill herself after being tortured with electrical shocks. She spoke at a news conference in the Sofia, Bulgaria. Other members of the group were too ill to attend.

A tragedy during his youth left Gregory Orr confused and disillusioned. Now, the University of Virginia professor believes poetry has helped him live and heal.

Physician Kevin Patterson has treated patients in the Arctic, in Kandahar and on remote Pacific Islands. He says that Western ideas and the effects of urbanization are making people everywhere in the world both fatter and sicker.