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The human brain can, indeed, make up things that aren't there — sights, sounds, feelings. Michele Norris has a literary reminder of a famous hallucination: Captain Ahab, from Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick. Ahab lost his leg but can feel it still.

The massive Cedar fire in 2003 destroyed hundreds of homes in the San Diego area. Now, people who lost their homes in 2003 are providing both practical advice and inspiration to the victims of this week's devastating fires.

The buy-direct, support-the-farm ethos of CSAs is getting lost in the urban consumer's pursuit of convenience.

Details continue to emerge about the people who are presumed to have lost their lives aboard the dive boat Conception.

Italian soccer team Pro Piacenza is in last place in its division. They're also broke. On Sunday they lost 20 to 0.

The Zildjian family has been in the cymbal-making business for close to 400 years, using a secret alloy of several metals. All manner of percussionists and drummers use Zildjian cymbals. Michele Norris notes that last week, the company lost its president of a quarter century with the passing of Armand Zildjian, who died of cancer at age 81.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports that home insurance is a looming problem in California: thousands of homeowners are complaining that they lost their insurance or had their rates hiked just because they filed a claim -- or even because they inquired about filing a claim. A state Senate committee and the new insurance commissioner are promising a thorough review of the system.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that decades after a federal judge ordered it, new houses are about to built for black residents who lost their homes in an ethnic enclave next to Detroit. The few African-Americans in Hamtramck, Mich., in the 1960s successfully claimed in court that urban renewal targeted their homes for destruction and withheld relocation help.

Journalist Gina Cavallaro made and lost a friend while embedded with the army in Iraq. She tells the story of her connection to Spc. Francisco Martinez, a young soldier whom she saw shot and killed while on patrol. Cavallaro is a reporter with the Army Times, an independent weekly newspaper.

Norma Khouri, author of the international best-seller Honor Lost, is being accused of fabricating the story of a Jordanian who kills his daughter to defend the family's honor. The work has been pulled from bookshelves. NPR's Renee Montagne speaks with Malcolm Knox of the Sydney Morning Herald, who broke the story.