AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Giving a family a school voucher doesn't guarantee a child a better education. We're about to hear how Milwaukee's African-American community has been struggling with this. The city has the nation's longest-running publicly funde

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Leaving High School Behind For A Dangerous Life In 'A Good Country'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: How does Rez, a laid-back stoner of a surfer dude from Laguna Beach, get drawn into a web of fanaticism? Laleh Khadivi's new novel tells the story of Alireza from the time he's a 14-year-old chemistry whiz, the son of Iranian immig

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Scientists Glued Fake Caterpillars On Plants Worldwide. Here's What Happened

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Sometimes good research can get done with a tool so simple a child could do it. For instance, scientists around the world recently set out thousands of fake caterpillars made from clay. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce explains why. NE

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美国国家公共电台 NPR NPR/Ipsos Poll: Americans Aren't So Hot On 'America First'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: President Trump arrived in Saudi Arabia this morning - the start of his first overseas trip and a test of Mr. Trump's approach to foreign policy, which he spelled out in his inaugural address. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRES

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Arrives In Saudi Arabia To A Warm Welcome, Despite Troubles At Home

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: President Trump is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This is the first stop on his first trip overseas as president, but that doesn't mean that he's managed to escape the political troubles that certainly have been bedeviling him back home.

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美国国家公共电台 NPR BJ Leiderman: 'I'm The Luckiest Composer On The Planet'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Our next guest has written a few musical numbers that you just might recognize. This wake up tune. (SOUNDBITE OF BJ LEIDERMAN'S MORNING EDITION THEME) SIMON: A theme with true commercial appeal. (SOUNDBITE OF BJ LEIDERMAN'S MARKETP

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Death Of Chris Cornell, Front Man Of Soundgarden, Ruled A Suicide

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: And now we remember this voice. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, BLACK HOLE SUN) CHRIS CORNELL: (Singing) In my eyes, indisposed, in disguises no one knows... SHAPIRO: Chris Cornell died early this morning at age 52. He was in Detroit on tour w

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Correction: What Is The Shell In The 'Birth Of Venus' Painting?

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now, a correction. On Tuesday, we ran a story about the famous Renaissance painting the Birth Of Venus by Sandro Boticelli. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: You know the image - a nude Venus, head tilted, red hair flowing and, strategically pl

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Wading Into Murky Waters, Trump Trip To Advocate Religious Unity

DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump begins his first overseas presidential trip tomorrow, and he has got an itinerary that could be mistaken for a religious pilgrimage. His first stops are Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican. It's a bold move for a

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Total Failure: When The Space Shuttle Didn't Come Home

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We tend to mark our successes in life, but what if we're thinking about it the wrong way? What if it's failure that shapes us? All this month in a series we're calling Total Failure, we will examine mistakes and how they change p

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Josh Groban Leaves Big Shoes To Fill In The Tony-Nominated 'Great Comet'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet Of 1812 is up for 12 Tony Awards. That's more than any other Broadway show. One of those nominations is for Josh Groban, who plays Pierre. This summer, he'll hand the part over to Okieriete Ona

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Color Of Law' Details How U.S. Housing Policies Created Segregation

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This is the day in 1954 that the Supreme Court issued its famous ruling desegregating schools, Brown versus Board of Education. Today, schools remain largely segregated, and the author Richard Rothstein argues that's because housin

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美国国家公共电台 NPR TV Networks Unveil Fall Seasons At 2017 Upfronts

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We talk a lot these days about how Internet streaming has rattled the world of network television, snatching up Emmy nominations and capturing attention in the press and on social media. But traditional broadcast TV remains the b

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Tyrannosaurus Rex's Bite Force Measured 8,000 Pounds, Scientists Say

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Maybe you've seen the film Jurassic Park, and you remember that scene where the Tyrannosaurus rex escapes its pen and attacks guests at the theme park. You might remember those imposing teeth. Well, in real life, the T. rex had th

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Jean-Michel Basquiat Painting Sells For Record $110.5 Million

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A painting of a skull by Jean-Michel Basquiat broke records at Sotheby's last night. The work sold for more than $110 million. As NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports, that is the most ever for an American artist's work at auction. ELIZAB

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美国国家公共电台 NPR In Washington, D.C., A Program In Which Birds And People Lift Each Other Up

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For young people growing up east of the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., life can be a struggle against gangs and violence. And for much of its modern history, the river itself has been under assault, considered one of the most

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Danish Filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg Gets Deeply Personal In 'The Commune'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Thomas Vinterberg is not an easy filmmaker to pin down. In English, he's leapt from science fiction to the costume drama Far From The Madding Crowd. In his native Denmark, he tends to make intensely intimate films, like his Oscar n

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美国国家公共电台 NPR For Families With Special Needs, Vouchers Bring Choices, Not Guarantees

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All week on the program, we're taking a look at school choice. Today we're going to meet two special needs families in Florida. President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have repeatedly touted the state as a national mo

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Lesser-Known Venus Visits The U.S. In New Botticelli Exhibit

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The famous Renaissance painting Birth Of Venus has truly proven itself to be timeless. The image of the nude goddess on a clamshell has been appropriated and satirized countless times since the original was painted 500 years ago. T

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Texas Wants To Set Its Own Rules For Federal Family Planning Funds

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The state of Texas excluded Planned Parenthood in 2011 from its women's health program. That meant foregoing millions of dollars in federal Medicaid money. More than 80 women's health clinics, most of them not Planned Parenthood,

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