MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: One of the towering figures in science fiction has died, although she never really liked being called a sci-fi writer. Ursula K. Le Guin was best known for the Earthsea fantasy books and for her influential gender-bending spa

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 25 Years After The Tanks, Tear Gas And Flames, 'Waco' Returns To TV

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Twenty-five years ago, it seemed all eyes were fixed on Waco. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT) WALTER RODGERS: The federal agents came under heavy and sustained fire as they approached a ranch owned by Texas religious

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Breaking Down The 2018 Oscar Nominations

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Academy Award nominations were announced today. And if you're looking for an early front-runner, you could do worse than Guillermo del Toro's romantic science fiction fantasy The Shape Of Water. It led the way with 13 nominat

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Is There A Ticking Time Bomb Under The Arctic?

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Come with us on a journey inside the Earth. Well, inside a special layer in the Earth. A quarter of the Northern Hemisphere is covered with what's called permafrost, and for the first time in centuries, the permafrost is beginning

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Descending On A Montana Town, Neo-Nazi Trolls Test Where Free Speech Ends

DAVID GREENE, HOST: We're going to hear now what it's like to be trolled by white supremacists and also how hard it is for victims to do anything about it. NPR's Kirk Siegler takes us to Whitefish, Mont. That is where neo-Nazis have aimed what they c

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美国国家公共电台 NPR When Dating Felt Like A Job, One Woman Hired A Matchmaker

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And we have an update now on a series we have been doing all this month. It is about online dating. And Rachel, I know that's something you know a thing or two about. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Little bit - it's true. I met my husband o

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Why TSA Officers Are Rooting For 'Get Out'

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Oscar nominations will be announced tomorrow. There's a good chance the movie Get Out will be the first horror film to be nominated for best picture in nearly 30 years. The Silence Of The Lambs won back in 1992. As NPR's Neda

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美国国家公共电台 NPR These Movies Once Had Oscar Buzz But Lost It

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: As we just heard, Get Out is getting lots of attention as a possible Oscar contender this year. The nominations come out tomorrow morning. And missing from the list will be films that at one point were considered Oscar contenders

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Part Of Oregon's Funding Plan For Medicaid Goes Before Voters

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: When the Affordable Care Act became law, the state of Oregon embraced it. As a result, some 95 percent of Oregonians now have health insurance, one of the highest rates in the nation. That's due in part to Medicaid expansion. Tod

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Spotify's Unusual IPO Model Will Test The Company's Strength

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Spotify, the music streaming service, is popular and also unprofitable. And now Spotify is planning a very unconventional initial public offering. Embracing its status as an industry disruptor, Spotify's breaking with convention a

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Do So Many Rock Stars Die At 27? Argentine Film Explores One (Insane) Theory

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: If you've seen most of the Oscar nominees and you can't find anything else interesting at your local movie theater, you're not alone. Critic Bob Mondello says Hollywood has always used January as a dumping ground. And today he argu

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Activists: Gang Database Disproportionately Targets Young Men Of Color

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Police departments across the U.S. are using electronic databases to store intelligence on gang activity. These databases have been heralded by police as a crime fighting tool. But some activists in Chicago claim they do more harm

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Rare Disease Finds Fertile Ground In Rohingya Refugee Camps

Rare Disease Finds Fertile Ground In Rohingya Refugee Camps SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A diptheria outbreak is worsening in Bangladesh in what's rapidly become the largest refugee camp in the world. The camp is home to some of the hundreds of thousands of Ro

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Judge Seems Sympathetic To Anti-Corruption Case Against President Trump

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Critics of President Trump's business activity are trying again to stop it. The president continues to own his global business long after taking office. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: His critics say that creates massive conflicts of inter

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美国国家公共电台 NPR What It Takes To Get Guns Out Of The Wrong Hands

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: After a mass shooting in this country, there are all kinds of questions about how the shooter was able to get a gun. Courts have long prohibited certain people from owning guns, like felons and people with domestic violence convi

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Father, A Husband, An Immigrant: Detained And Facing Deportation

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In the year that President Trump has been in office, immigration has defined his political platform from the first day of his campaign to this week's government shutdown. And the numbers show that he has made some dramatic ch

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Fire Rips Through South Korean Hospital, Killing Dozens Of Patients

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: News this morning out of South Korea. A fire broke out in a hospital emergency room there and killed at least three dozen people. NPR's Elise Hu has more. ELISE HU, BYLINE: So far, investigators don't know what started the flames

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美国国家公共电台 NPR School Shootings Are Sad, But No Longer Surprising

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Bailey Holt and Preston Cope were murdered in their high school this week. They were both 15 years old. But has the news of students being murdered in their school lost the power to shock and sober us? Sixteen students, all between

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'It's Up To All Of Us': Parents Of Young Gymnasts Respond To Nassar Abuse Scandal

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The fallout continues over the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal. USA Gymnastics said on Friday that its entire board of directors will resign. More than 150 women have testified that Nassar, former doctor of the U.S. gymnastics team,

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Honeybees Help Farmers, But They Don't Help The Environment

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We've heard a lot in recent years about the struggles of honeybees, how their numbers are down. So environmentalists have rallied to their aid - even helping people to set up their own beehives. But this bothers a lot of ecologists

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