STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: At the age of 80, the artist David Hockney has put on a show in Los Angeles called 82 Portraits And 1 Still-life, which got NPR's Susan Stamberg thinking about the people who posed for him. SUSAN STAMBERG, BYLINE: The youngest is

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美国国家公共电台 NPR An Anti-Immigration Speech Divided Britain 50 Years Ago. It Still Echoes Today

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Fifty years ago today, as the U.S. was reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King, the British politician Enoch Powell delivered an apocalyptic warning to his Conservative Party about the dangers of mass immigration. Pow

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美国国家公共电台 NPR How Pokemon Inspired A Citizen Science Project To Monitor Tiny Streams

DAVID GREENE, HOST: It is springtime. And in parched western states, a lot of people are watching closely as snows melt and the rivers rise. Now, satellites can monitor water levels in the biggest rivers, but they do not spot the smaller streams and

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Duke University Won't Honor Freshman Roommate Requests This Fall

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Meeting your college roommate used to be one of the anxieties of the first week of school - but if you'd been paired with B.J. Leiderman, who writes our theme music. But these days, many freshmen meet in advance online and arrange

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'We Came A Long Way': After Prison, A New Chance For A Dad And His Daughter

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: And it's time for StoryCorps this morning. Today a daughter talks with her dad about a confusing time. When 17-year-old Abby Gagliardo was a kid, her dad, Ralph, was sent to prison. He's been out for five year

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Novelist Richard Powers Finds New Stories Deep In Old Growth Forests

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Richard Powers likes to explore big ideas in his novels. He has written about artificial intelligence, game theory, genetics, music and a lot of other things. In his latest book, The Overstory, Powers takes on trees and the lives o

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Maine Asylum-Seeker Fights For His Right To Poetry

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Next week, high school students from all over the country will meet in Washington, D.C., to recite poems. It's for a national competition called Poetry Out Loud. The state champion from Maine has been barred from the contest becaus

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 8 Years After Deepwater Horizon Explosion, Is Another Disaster Waiting To Happen?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Eight years ago today, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 people and led to a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident prompted big changes in how the country regulates offshore drilling. No

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Behind 'Ear Hustle,' The Podcast Made In Prison

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A few years ago, Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods started a project - making a podcast about life in prison - for inmates by inmates. NIGEL POOR: Our goal was to do a podcast that would be played on the closed-circuit station inside o

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Is Netflix On Its Way To World Domination Of Streaming?

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Netflix blew past Wall Street expectations this week and added close to 7.5 million new subscribers. Its popularity has been leaving rivals Amazon and Hulu in the dust. NPR's Laura Sydell looks at whether the company that made bin

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美国国家公共电台 NPR The CIA Introduces Gina Haspel After Her Long Career Undercover

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The nominee to replace Mike Pompeo is his deputy, Gina Haspel. She worked undercover for three decades in some of the CIA's most challenging jobs, but critics are focused on her role in the CIA's waterboarding campaign. In response

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Suicide Blast Kills Dozens At Voter Registration Center In Kabul

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Elections in Afghanistan are scheduled for October after a three-year delay amid concerns about voter fraud and poor security. And at least one of those concerns has proven valid today. Dozens are dead in two attacks near v

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Anxiety Relief Without The High? New Studies On CBD, A Cannabis Extract

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The movement to legalize marijuana in many states has led to more interest in a product that is derived from cannabis. It's called CBD, and it's widely available online. Research suggests it may help to relieve pain and anxiety a

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Who Cares If They're Cute? This Zoologist Accepts Animals On Their Own Terms

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Lucy Cooke is the founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society. Their motto - being fast is overrated. Of course, that's not her only claim to fame. Cooke is an Oxford-trained zoologist and an award-winning documentary filmmak

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Exorcist' Director Makes A New Movie About Exorcism (It's A Documentary)

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When The Exorcist, based on the novel by William Blatty, came to theaters in 1973, it captured the public's imagination or, more accurately, our nightmares. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE EXORCIST) MAX VON SYDOW: (As Father Merrin

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Juliana Hatfield Sings The Hits Of 'Old Friend' Olivia Newton-John

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Juliana Hatfield was a darling of the 1990s indie music scene. She played with the Blake Babies and Lemonheads, and she had a hit with this edgy pop song - My Sister. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, MY SISTER) JULIANA HATFIELD: (Singin

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Bring The War Home' Shows 'Lone Wolf' Terrorists Are Really Part Of A Pack

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Last year when neo-Nazis and members of the so-called alt-right demonstrated in Charlottesville, Va., many Americans evinced shock that such a thing could happen in 2017. But Charlottesville is only the latest in a history

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美国国家公共电台 NPR NPR Poetry Month: Andrea Davis Pinkney

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now for some poetry. As we celebrate NPR Poetry Month, we've noticed that our Twitter hashtag - #nprpoetry - has attracted some young poets. And we know that teachers around the country sometimes use our Twitter callout to get th

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Do Russian Journalists Keep Falling?

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Maybe Maxim Borodin was depressed in ways his friends just didn't recognize and threw himself off his fifth-floor balcony this week in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Maxim Borodin was 32 and a reporter for the local Novy Den website, where

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Betting On Artificial Intelligence To Guide Earthquake Response

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Planning for natural disasters involves dealing with a lot of uncertainty, but advances in artificial intelligence may allow computers to take some of the guesswork out of the planning process. NPR's science correspondent Joe Palca

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