AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today's teenagers are physically safer than they've ever been - less likely to be in a car accident because more of them are putting off getting their driver's license, less likely to binge drink because in part they're not hangi

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美国国家公共电台 NPR How To Fix Poverty: Why Not Just Give People Money?

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: There's an unprecedented experiment happening in a village in Kenya. Most people there had been scraping by on less than $2 a day. But last fall, an American charity announced they're going to give every adult an extra $22 a mont

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Wonder Woman' Continues Hot Streak In Mediocre Summer For Hollywood

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's been a mediocre summer so far for Hollywood box office numbers - down about 11 percent from last summer. But one movie has had remarkable staying power. (SOUNDBITE OF RUPERT GREGSON-WILLIAMS' WONDER WOMAN'S WRATH) CORNISH: W

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Funk Band Behind 'Amen Break' Drum Riff Receives Long Overdue Notoriety

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: What do Salt-N-Pepa, Amy Winehouse, Oasis and the theme song to the animated TV show Futurama have in common - these six seconds. (SOUNDBITE OF THE WINSTONS' AMEN, BROTHER) SHAPIRO: This is called the Amen break. It's used in at le

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Racist Bill'? Chinese Immigrants Protest Effort To Collect More Asian-American Data

STACEY VANEK SMITH, HOST: Asian-Americans are an incredibly diverse group. Now some states are passing laws to help capture that diversity and requiring state agencies to collect more detailed data about Asian-Americans. But those policies are facing

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Go See It, Eclipse Chasers Urge. 'Your First Time Is Always Special'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: On August 21, millions of people in 14 states across the country will be able to see a total solar eclipse. That's when the moon slips in front of the sun and blocks its light, creating an eerie, daytime twilight. This will be a

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Chicago To Sue Feds Over Funding Threats To Sanctuary Cities

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Washington is pretty quiet these days with Congress out of session. The action today is in Chicago, where the city's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department. DOJ recently announced they would withhol

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Flattening The 'Mummy Tummy' With 1 Exercise, 10 Minutes A Day

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Today in Your Health, we're going to tackle an issue that affects about half of all mothers. The technical term is diastasis recti, but many of us know it by another name - mommy pooch - you know, that soft belly that bulges out a

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美国国家公共电台 NPR U.N. Approves New North Korea Sanctions Over Missile Tests

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: North Korea is one of the most challenging foreign policy situations facing the Trump administration right now. The international community has just stepped in. The United Nations Security Council is levying a fresh round o

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美国国家公共电台 NPR How The Dream Of America's 'Nuclear Renaissance' Fizzled

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Nuclear energy used to be seen as the wave of the future and the way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But last week, a utility in South Carolina decided to stop working on a major nuclear project there. It's a sign of th

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Poetry Of Failure Comes To Life At Chicago's 'Baudelaire In A Box'

STACEY VANEK SMITH, HOST: This weekend, the Lollapalooza music festival is taking over downtown Chicago. Hometown hero Chance the Rapper is the headliner tonight. He will be grabbing the spotlight. But on the city's North Side, a theater is hosting a

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Behind China's VPN Crackdown, A 'Game Of Cat And Mouse' Continues

DAVID GREENE, HOST: China has constructed the world's most sophisticated system of Internet content control. It's been dubbed not the Great Wall but the great firewall. Now, savvy Internet users can tunnel under that wall using tools known as virtual

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美国国家公共电台 NPR The Brief, Tumultuous Reign Of An Erstwhile Best-Seller

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now a book mystery, not a mystery book. Handbook For Mortals is actually a fantasy paranormal romance. It hit the top of the most recent New York Times young adult best seller list, which seemed odd because not many people had ev

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Disjointed' Is Like Any Workplace Sitcom — With More Pot, Sex And Language

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Chuck Lorre is television's sitcom king. But every single broadcast network turned down his latest sitcom. NPR's Neda Ulaby tells us why. NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: Chuck Lorre's new show starts Friday on Netflix with a huge star, Kathy

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Closeted Teen Struggles To Maintain His Double Life In 'Beach Rats'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: When the film Beach Rats won the best directing prize at Sundance in January, there was snow on the ground. The film's suntanned teenagers are more in sync with the season now. Critic Bob Mondello says one of them is still not comf

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Vijay Iyer On Jazz's 'History Of Defiance,' His Influences And Playing In A Sextet

(SOUNDBITE OF VIJAY IYER SEXTET'S FAR FROM OVER) SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This is the music of Vijay Iyer. He's an acclaimed jazz pianist, MacArthur winner and professor of music at Harvard. This new album, recorded with a six-person band, is called Far Fr

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美国国家公共电台 NPR This Music Teacher Played His Saxophone While In Brain Surgery

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Imagine that you're a musician. (SOUNDBITE OF SAXOPHONE MUSIC) SIEGEL: And imagine that you discover you have a brain tumor right near the part of your brain that's key to playing your instrument. Well, there's a team of doctors

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Government Can Search Inauguration Protest Website Records, With Safeguards

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now a court decision in a case that pits president Trump's Justice Department against a web hosting company whose services were used by anti-Trump activists. The company DreamHost challenged the U.S. government over what it saw a

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Is The Secret To A Healthier Microbiome Hidden In The Hadza Diet?

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The phrase endangered species often refers to charismatic animals like mountain gorillas or polar bears. Well, today scientists are reporting that a whole different type of extinction is happening inside our bodies. NPR's Michaelee

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Jeep: Why This American Icon Could Soon Be Part Of A Chinese Company

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There are few brands more quintessentially American than Jeep. And now it seems possible that a foreign company could purchase Jeep from Fiat-Chrysler, its parent company. At the moment these are just rumors. Those rumors point to

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