MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's take a poetry break now with a few more of your Twitter poems. It's a beautiful day here in Washington, D.C., so a good time to hear a few reflections on springtime and nature, like this one from Mark Holoweiko in Michigan.

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Alive And Kicking' Chronicles Deep History Of Swing Dancing

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, there was a time when going out on weekends didn't mean Netflix and chill or dining out at the latest restaurant. It meant going out to dance, and in the '20s and '30s that meant swing dancing. Born in Harlem, N.Y.

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Prince Contained Multitudes, New Book Confirms

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to music. Many people were shocked and upset by the death of singer-songwriter Prince last April. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, WHEN DOVES CRY) PRINCE: (Singing) Dig if you will the picture of you and I engaged in a kiss. MARTIN: New Y

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美国国家公共电台 NPR What's The Issue With Nitrate Film Stock? It's Combustible

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Audiences had an unusual opportunity over the weekend to see classic movies the way they were originally projected. The TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood played movies on old-style nitrate film. It's very rare and beautiful

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Actor Jaime Camil On How 'Jane The Virgin' Humanizes Its Telenovela Characters

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The plotline in CW's Jane The Virgin is just a little bit complicated. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, JANE THE VIRGIN) ANTHONY MENDEZ: (As narrator) All right, here we go. As you know, Jane was accidentally artificially insemina

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美国国家公共电台 NPR PHOTOS: The Creamy, Sculpted Dunes Of White Sands National Monument

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico is a huge expanse of pure, white sand dunes that form a shifting, spectacular landscape. Here's NPR's Melissa Block with the latest in her series Our Land on a place l

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Mountain Lion Kitten Is Found, Leading To Excitement And Concern

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: OK, now for some cute but worrying science from the animal world. The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area posted a photo earlier this week that is insanely adorable. It's of a newly found mountain lion kitten

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Episode 763: BOTUS

ALEX GOLDMARK, HOST: We've been working on this episode for a long while. We had it ready to go. And then, like the rest of the world, we got news that President Trump had ordered missile strikes in Syria. Today's show is in part about responding to

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Congressional Leaders Urge Trump Administration For Broader Syria Strategy

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: We start this hour with reaction to President Trump's decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian airbase. That happened last night in response to an apparent chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on civilians

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Shots Fired' Creators Want To 'Challenge Your Perspective' On Police Shootings

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to close things out today by hearing about a new program that opens with a scene all too familiar from the nightly news - a young man is dead in the street, shot by a police officer who thought he saw a weapon. It tur

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Listeners Create #NPRpoetry Using Prominent Political Themes

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now we're going to get some more of your Twitter poetry submissions. All this month, we're inviting you to send us your original poems of 140 characters or less. This week - quite a few have had what I suppose you could call poli

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美国国家公共电台 NPR The British At 'Their Finest': How A Nation Kept Calm And Carried On

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The aging British matinee idol thinks he's been given too small a role as the uncle of twin sisters. The American who's supposed to play a hero is as dull as a stick. But a young woman in the script department has an idea that migh

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Body-Switching Teen Romance Anime Disaster Flick With 'Your Name.' On It

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Let's take a break from the news and go to the movies. For the first two months of this year, a teen romance called Your Name was the biggest film of 2017, bigger even than Lego Batman. It's a Japanese anime film that made more t

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Pork Tacos Topped With Fries: Fuel For Mexico's Diabetes Epidemic

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Global diabetes rates have been increasing dramatically over the past 20 years. In Mexico, 14 percent of adults now suffer from diabetes. It is, in fact, the leading cause of death there, and it's having a huge impact on Mexico's h

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美国国家公共电台 NPR During World War I, U.S. Government Propaganda Erased German Culture

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: This week marks the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I, a conflict that shattered empires and cost millions of lives. Here's something else it did on the American home front. It made us a less German country - culturally.

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Real-Life Tax Scam: This Is What IRS Phone Fraud Sounds Like

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Tax season is here. The filing deadline is next Monday. This year, tax day is the 18th, not the 15th. And when tax season heats up, so does scam season. NPR recently received a recording - a real-life phone call between a woman in

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Michigan's Tart Cherry Orchards Struggle To Cope With Erratic Spring Weather

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: So far this year, cold weather has frozen blueberries in the south. Rains have drowned lettuce in California. And in Michigan where tart cherries are big business, growers are preparing for a long battle with extreme weather. Pet

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Venezuela's Bread Wars: With Food Scarce, Government Accuses Bakers Of Hoarding

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to Venezuela, where an economic crisis has brought thousands of people to the streets. The demonstrations have been growing since the country's supreme court tried to nullify the Congress there. Food and medicine are in short

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Esra'a: Would You Speak Up ... Even If It's Dangerous?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today ideas about Speaking Up. Can you introduce yourself please? ESRA'A: Yeah. So my name is Esra'a, and I am from Bahrain. RAZ: Esra'a asked us not to use her last name b

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美国国家公共电台 NPR James Hansen: What Makes A Scientist Take A Stand?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, Speaking Up, ideas about what it takes and when you know it's time to say something. JAMES HANSEN: As the ocean gets warmer that melts the ice shelves that come out

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