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美国国家公共电台 NPR Transgender Women Of Indonesia Have A Champion In A 26-Year-Old Doctor

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Indonesia is as wide as the continental United States, and it's diverse. In the far west, Sharia law governs Aceh province. To the east, Hinduism dominates the island of Bali. There are pockets of Christianity and Buddhism. And thi

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美国国家公共电台 NPR How The Diversity Visa Lottery Works

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of the details we've learned about the suspect in the New York terror attack is that he was a native of Uzbekistan. He came to this country through a visa lottery system. This lottery is open to people from countries that hav

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美国国家公共电台 NPR An Unlikely Friendship Reignites 2 Artists' Ambitions

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: And it's time now for StoryCorps. Today, what can happen when you take the time to start a conversation with a stranger? Thirty-one-year-old Brian Peterson is a car designer living in Santa Ana, Calif. Every d

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'It's Our Right': Christian Congregation In Indonesia Fights To Worship In Its Church

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Western leaders often hold up Indonesia as a role model. It's the third-largest democracy in the world, a majority Muslim country where religious coexistence is literally written into the founding documents. Lately human rights act

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Need Help Picking An ACA Health Plan? Some States Are Reaching Out

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And few New Yorkers have been as ubiquitous in the entertainment world, from acting to writing to podcasting, as Michael Rapaport. His path to more than 100 TV and film credits began with stand-up comedy in the late '80s. These da

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美国国家公共电台 NPR As Mueller Picks Up Pace, Capital Roils With Talk Of Pardons And Firing

DAVID GREENE, HOST: This week, special prosecutor Robert Mueller picked up the public pace of his investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election. He rolled out two indictments and also revealed a potentially important plea agree

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 30 Years Of Criminal Justice Reporting From Robert Siegel

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A big change is coming to our program and to NPR. It involves our next guest, who I'm not used to seeing on the opposite side of the table. Robert Siegel, welcome to the studio. ROBERT SIEGEL, BYLINE: You think you're not used to s

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Japanese Lawmaker's Baby Gets Booted From The Floor

ELISE HU, HOST: A Japanese lawmaker did something shocking earlier this week. She brought her baby to work. Yuka Ogata took her seat in the front row of the Kumamoto Municipal Assembly and held her 7-month-old in her lap. The baby quietly sucked his

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Even After 100 Years, People Are Still Reaching For The Moon(Pie)

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: OK. The turkey and dressing may be dry or disappeared by now, but this season also sees a celebration of another distinctly American treat, the MoonPie. Maybe I should say moon-pye (ph). The snack food that began as a coal miner's

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美国国家公共电台 NPR How One Pop-Up Restaurant Is Fighting Stigma Against HIV/AIDS

ELISE HU, HOST: This month, diners in Toronto were treated to a four-course meal at a pop-up restaurant called June's. In addition to the food, the chefs at June's also served a message which they wore on their shirts - break bread, smash stigma. The

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Less Waste, More Taste: A Master Chef Reimagines Thanksgiving Leftovers

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Protecting The Netherlands' Vulnerable Coasts With A 'Sand Motor'

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美国国家公共电台 NPR The Sea Level Threat To Cities Depends On Where The Ice Melts — Not Just How Fast

ELISE HU, HOST: The world's oceans are rising up about eight inches on average over the past century. The seas are rising more in some places than others. As NPR's Christopher Joyce reports, scientists are beginning to predict where the rise will be

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Björk Invites You To Her 'Utopia'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Have you felt like the last couple of years have been particularly heavy, hard - made you want to run away? Well, our co-host Rachel Martin sat down with the Icelandic musician Bjork, whose new album is designed to take you somew

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美国国家公共电台 NPR They Comfort Strangers, So No One Dies Alone

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's Friday, which means we hear from StoryCorps. Many of us spent Thanksgiving with family and friends. And today, we have a story about those who are alone. David Wynn and Carolyn Lyon volunteer at St. Jose

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美国国家公共电台 NPR NASA Taps Young People To Help Develop Virtual Reality Technology

NOEL KING, HOST: NASA has high hopes for virtual reality and wants to use VR for everything - from geological research to fixing satellites. And to that end, they are tapping some new talent - high school students. NPR's Rebecca Hersher has the story

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美国国家公共电台 NPR When Making Books Was As Much Of An Art As Writing Them

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: When was the last time you picked up a book and studied how it was made - the typeface, the feel of the paper, the way the words look on the page? These days, as people read on phones and tablets, some books never even make it to p

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美国国家公共电台 NPR The Call-In: Tension At The Holiday Dinner Table

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: And now a little post-Thanksgiving edition of The Call-In. (SOUNDBITE OF CORDUROI'S MY DEAR) WERTHEIMER: Yes, the turkey leftovers are almost gone. The relatives are headed home. And for some, the dust has settled. We asked yo

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美国国家公共电台 NPR New Biography Features Recipes Of Famed Chef And Cookbook Author Paula Wolfert

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: We have a new biography to talk about - a biography with recipes. It's the story of Paula Wolfert. Wolfert lived in Marrakesh for a time and wrote the first major American cookbook from there. It's called Couscous And Other Go

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