NPR 2010-08-30

The Gulf Coast is still not recovered from Hurricane Katrina, which struck five years ago today. President Obama spoke at Xavier University in New Orleans a short while ago and made this promise. On this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and t

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Every two weeks, on the full and new moons, the sun, moon and Earth fall along a nearly straight line. The combination of gravitational forces in this arrangement creates large swings in the tides. But the celestial alignment affects more than the oc

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Rapper Jay Z has restarted a music subscription site to provide a new kind of streaming service. Jay Z has bought and re-launched the service called Tidal, which was initially launched last October. Many of the music industry's major stars have also

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DC's National Arboretum a Quieter Place to Enjoy Cherry Blossoms

Each year at the start of spring, more than 1 million people travel to Washington, D.C., for one major reason: the cherry blossoms. Most of the travelers visit an area known as the Tidal Basin. During peak bloom, the Tidal Basin is bursting with colo

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PBS高端访谈:大西洋有记录以来最强飓风Irma来袭

In the day's other major story, Hurricane Irma is now the most powerful storm ever recorded in the open Atlantic Ocean. It has winds of 185 miles an hour, and it's closing in on the Northeast Caribbean. That has one forecaster warning that the Leewar

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Once again the migratory birds, the Godwits are arriving in New Zealand from Alaska. They arrive in groups, usually the second or third week in September. Because of the earthquake damage to the Cathedral, Christchurch cannot ring the Cathedral bells

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It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell. Flukes and flames! 这真是一种恶毒的侮辱,随便骂人该入地狱。该死的东西! Bildad, say that again to me, and start my soulbolts, but I'll-I'll-yes, I'll

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Some chapters back, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall, newlanded mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn. 几章前,我曾提到过一个叫布金敦的,一个在新贝德福的客店里碰到的。个子高高。刚上岸的水手。 When

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But there are instances where, after the lapse of many hours or several days, the sunken whale again rises, more buoyant than in life. 但是，也有许多场合，在经过许多钟头或者好几天后，那条沉下去的鲸又会再浮上来，比

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and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare. 眼前这一事实，德立克德第尔船长就真个象弗拉斯克说的，确实是拿着一只灯油壶的。 As he mounted the deck, Ahab