ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Many Europeans have become accustomed to seeing candlelight vigils and piles of flowers in city squares - memorials to terror victims. They're in Paris, Berlin, London and now Barcelona, where ISIS plowed a van into pedestrians las

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Nathan Englander Says His New Book Is 'A Turducken Of A Novel'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Dinner At The Center Of The Earth is a novel that winds together the stories of a prisoner, his guard, mothers, sons, spies, statesmen, traitors and lovers. Sometimes - maybe even more than sometimes - they're the same person. Dinn

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Celia Perez's New Novel 'The First Rule Of Punk' Comes With Advice For Adolescents

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Maria Luisa is 12 years old. Her parents are divorced, and her mom just got a job at a new city. Things are not looking good. So Malu - that's the shortened version of her name, the version she prefers - puts on her headphones. (

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美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'World Of Tomorrow,' A Novelist Found Echoes Of 1939, Today

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: If you're looking to settle in for a long, meaty read as the days get shorter, the new novel The World Of Tomorrow is the sprawling story of three Irish brothers and their adventures in an America on the cusp of World War I

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Fresh Threats From Pyongyang As Joint Military Exercise Begins

DAVID GREENE, HOST: North Korea is issuing some fresh threats. This is as the United States and South Korea begin a 10-day joint military exercise on the Korean Peninsula. This is an annual drill - all of it, both the war games and the knee-jerk vitr

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump's Visit To Arizona Is A Headache For Trump GOP Critic, Sen. Jeff Flake

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And President Trump's next speech will be at a rally for his supporters tonight in Phoenix, Ariz. Now, why Arizona? And why right now? Well, one reason may be Jeff Flake. He is Arizona's junior U.S. senator, a Republican, but a vo

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美国国家公共电台 NPR In Solar Trade Dispute, Will Proposed Tariffs Cost Industry Jobs?

AILSA CHANG, HOST: A trade dispute has different parts of the solar industry in the U.S. at odds with one another. Two U.S. manufacturers say they cannot compete with cheap solar panels from China. So they're asking regulators to impose a tariff. Tha

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Can Anyone, Even Walmart, Stem The Heat-Trapping Flood Of Nitrogen On Farms?

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A lot of companies have promised to do their part to reduce their releases of greenhouse gases that are trapping heat and giving the planet a fever. Among them are big food companies, including the biggest American grocer, Walmar

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Pamela Adlon Started Working At Age 9, But 'Better Things' Happened At 50

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The actress Pamela Adlon doesn't show up in the tabloids. Paparazzi don't hound her. But she has worked in TV consistently for decades. She starred in the sexually explicit comedy Californication. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, CALIFORNICA

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Godzilla' Descends On Mexico City As Filmmakers Shoot Scenes In The Metropolis

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: People in Mexico City only got to see a partial solar eclipse today. But the huge metropolis is bracing for a different phenomenon. Godzilla has descended on the city, threatening to destroy it over the next two days or at least

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Despite Different Styles, Dick Gregory And Jerry Lewis Inspired Generations Of Comics

Despite Different Styles, Dick Gregory And Jerry Lewis Inspired Generations Of Comics ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Two giants of comedy died this weekend, Dick Gregory and Jerry Lewis. Both were funny, and that's about where the similarities end. Lewis was orc

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美国国家公共电台 NPR To Get Calcium, Navajos Burn Juniper Branches To Eat The Ash

DAVID GREENE, HOST: So getting calcium in your diet is essential to keeping your bones strong. Well, what do you do if you can't do dairy? A Navajo graduate student at Northern Arizona University got really interested in that question when he came ac

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Some Liberty University Grads Are Returning Their Diplomas To Protest Trump

DAVID GREENE, HOST: A growing number of graduates from one evangelical university are preparing to return their diplomas to protest their school's support for President Trump. Alumni of Liberty University are organizing this effort following Trump's

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Y Is For Yesterday': Sue Grafton's Penultimate Mystery Series Novel

DWANE BROWN, HOST: It all started with A Is For Alibi, then came B Is For Burglar, C Is For Corpse and on and on through the alphabet for mystery novelist Sue Grafton and her main character, the spunky female detective Kinsey Millhone. And now, Sue G

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Social Satirist Dick Gregory Was The 'First To Have A Crossover Market'

DWANE BROWN, HOST: We want to take a moment now to remember the pioneering legacy of comedian-activist Dick Gregory, one of the first comedians to satirize issues of race and politics in the 1960s, paving the way for future black outspoken comedians

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Sunday Puzzle: It's Time To Rhyme

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Tomorrow the moon will blot out the sun. But there's one thing that is never eclipsed, and that's The Puzzle. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GARCIA-NAVARRO: Joining me as always is Will Shortz. He's puzzle editor of The New York Time

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Jerry Lewis, Comic Icon And Titan Of Telethons, Dies At 91

DWANE BROWN, HOST: Jerry Lewis was truly a star of stage, screen and television. He created a hit nightclub act with singer Dean Martin. He starred in more than 60 movies and directed some 15 of those, including the original The Nutty Professor. And

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美国国家公共电台 NPR The Women Behind The 'Alt-Right'

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: If you've seen footage of white nationalists marching over the last couple of weeks, you've probably noticed that they're mostly young and male. But reporter Seyward Darby found that there are some influential women in the

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美国国家公共电台 NPR How To Talk Race With Your Family: Ask Code Switch

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And this is the Call-In. Race is hard to talk about. And in the wake of Charlottesville, there's a renewed intensity behind those conversations. And this week, you shared racially charged social interactions that you've exp

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Racial Issues Have Often Been A Test for U.S. Presidents With Conflicted Feelings

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: President Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville last week seemed to change by the day. He's far from being the first president to struggle with his response to the country's racial divisions. (SOUNDBITE OF MUS

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