KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Dr. Seuss, the best-selling children's author in the world, finally has his own museum curated in part by his own children. Theodor Seuss Geisel died in 1991. Now his hometown of Springfield, Mass., is letting visitors learn abou

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美国国家公共电台 NPR I Want To Be 'Popular': Psychologist Examines Our Lingering Teenage Selves

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Most of us remember our status in high school. You were either in the, like, theater nerd, yearbook editor, band camp, or you were more in the world of cheerleaders and prom queens and quarterbacks. And we like to think that none

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Let Local People Solve Local Problems,' Memphis Says In Bid To End DOJ Oversight

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Five years ago, the U.S. Justice Department concluded that juvenile courts in Memphis were failing to give children due process. Investigators uncovered significant racial disparities. And they reached a deal with the federal gov

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美国国家公共电台 NPR The Star-Spangled Banner Verse You've Probably Never Heard

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The Star-Spangled Banner will be playing all over the country tonight while fireworks go off. Few people know there are actually four official verses to the song. And even fewer know the one unofficial verse that was written a ha

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美国国家公共电台 NPR It's Not Easy, But Aspen Moves Toward 100 Percent Renewable Energy

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now that President Trump has announced his intention to pull out of the Paris climate accord, more cities around the U.S. are looking to cut their own carbon emissions. Hundreds of American mayors say they're committed to support

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Tillerson Confirms North Korea Missile An ICBM, Calls For Global Action

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: North Korea now claims it can send a nuclear missile anywhere in the world. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: (Speaking Korean). KELLY: That's the way North Koreans heard the news from an anchor on stat

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Playwright Edward Albee's Incomplete Works May Never See The Light Of Day

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has been in the news lately even though he died 10 months ago. His estate has turned down a multiracial production of Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? It has put his contemporary art

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Randall Mann's 'Proprietary' Reinvents Classic San Francisco Poetry

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Randall Mann captures the San Francisco of his youth in his new poetry collection, Proprietary. Our reviewer Tess Taylor says he does it while also reinventing the city for the dot-com age. TESS TAYLOR, BYLINE: Randall Mann's chi

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Architecture Of An Asylum' Tracks History Of U.S. Treatment Of Mental Illness

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Ezra Pound, a major American poet, and John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Reagan - both men had something in common - St. Elizabeths Hospital, where those with mental illness were housed. NPR special correspondent Susa

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Damage From Wayward Weedkiller Keeps Growing

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Farmers in parts of the South are fighting each other over a weed-killing chemical. Some are using it in combination with a new generation of genetically engineered crops. Others are angry because it's blowing in the wind and dam

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Something New For Baby To Chew On: Rocket Science And Quantum Physics

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: How old were you when you learned the basics of physics or rocket science? Or maybe you never did. Well, if there's a toddler in your house, you can refresh your memory or maybe learn something new. As part of our series on k

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美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'The Accomplished Guest,' Baby Boomers Step Back Into The Spotlight

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Ann Beattie has been a voice for her generation, the baby boomers, for 40 years. Her stories were published in The New Yorker regularly and helped pull back the curtain on the love lives, hopes and confusions of the boomers in th

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美国国家公共电台 NPR As First Model 3 Rolls Off The Line, Can Tesla Sustain Momentum?

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Big week this week for electric and hybrid cars. Volvo became the first automaker to commit to making all its models either electric or hybrid after the year 2019. And today, Tesla is rolling a new car off the assembly line,

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Exiting Ethics Chief Walter Shaub Calls Trump White House 'A Disappointment'

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: This week, the director of the Office of Government Ethics resigned. Walter Shaub Jr., who has tangled with the Trump administration over potential conflicts of interest, said, there isn't more I could accomplish. And he took a j

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'GLOW' Co-Creators Explain Why Wrestling Is Like Greek Theater

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: It's time for some '80s. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, GLOW) BETTY GILPIN: (As Liberty Belle) I'd like to call on the power of my three favorite Americans - Ronald Reagan, Larry Bird and Jesus Christ himself. (CHEERING) MCEVERS: This is

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Instagrandma Baddiewinkle Says She's 'Always Been A Rebel'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It is a rare and precious moment to talk to a celebrity who hits as many demographic heights as Baddiewinkle. Ms. Winkle is an Instagram influencer with more than 3 million followers. She made a bedazzled nude body suit look positi

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Grief Hangs Around At Home In 'A Ghost Story'

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The low-budget movie A Ghost Story stars Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. The film, shot for a hundred thousand dollars, was made quickly and in secret just days after Director David Lowery finished the Disney film Pete's Dragon. C

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Mexico And U.S. Team Up To Create Low-Cost Wheelchairs

We hear a lot about political tension between the United States and Mexico, including, of course, controversial deportations and that still unfunded, unbuilt proposed border wall. But examples of binational amity still exist. Reporter Monica Ortiz Ur

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Recruiters Use 'Geofencing' To Target Potential Hires Where They Live And Work

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: We're going to hear about something called geofencing. You might know about it. But if you don't, it's wireless technology that tracks mobile devices entering and exiting a specific area. Up to this point, it's mostly been used b

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Transgender Child Faces Growing Up

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We first heard from a Brooklyn youngster named Q Daily a couple of years ago when he was just finishing third grade. That was his first full school year identifying as a boy. Q is transgender. At the time, he described his feeling

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