ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The movie The Last Word opens with a series of photographs. We see a baby then a little redheaded girl becoming an ingenue and, ultimately, a sprightly woman in her 80s. These are all pictures of Shirley MacLaine. She plays a chara

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Doctor Launches Vision Quest To Help Astronauts' Eyeballs

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: You would expect a trip into space would change a person - their heart, their soul, but their eyeballs? For years, a north Texas doctor has been trying to find out what causes this vision change among astronauts. Her latest researc

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Cross-Dressing Academy Helps Put Men In Touch With 'Femmeselves'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Cross-dressing is still widely misunderstood. Many people who want to do it need a supportive environment in which to experiment. From member station WFUV in New York City, George Bodarky reports that Miss Vera's Finishing School F

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Dip In Global Prices Creates Cocoa Crisis For Ivory Coast's Farmers

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The price of cocoa has collapsed on international markets. That's devastated hundreds of thousands of small farmers in West Africa, which produces most of the world's cocoa. Alex Duval Smith reports from San Pedro in Ivory Coast, t

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美国国家公共电台 NPR How Do You Raise A Feminist Daughter? Chimamanda Adichie Has 15 Suggestions

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A few years ago, Chimamanda Adichie received a message from a childhood friend asking for advice. She wanted to know how to raise her newborn daughter to be a feminist. Now for Adichie, a best-selling author who's also made a nam

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'I Create Worlds': 'Feud' Showrunner Ryan Murphy On Making TV

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Ryan Murphy, the producer behind TV shows like Glee and American Horror Story debuts his latest series Sunday on FX. It is called Feud: Bette And Joan. And it's based on a legendary rivalry in old Hollywood. NPR TV critic Eric Deg

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美国国家公共电台 NPR U.S. Ramps Up Its Fight Against Al-Qaida In Yemen

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In Yemen, the Trump administration has stepped up military action. The U.S. has been bombing al-Qaida targets there this week. The U.S. effort against al-Qaida is just one of three separate conflicts in Yemen, and the country is

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Do Showers Make Oranges Taste Better? NPR Investigates

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Every once in a while here at the show, we read about something that makes us go, what? ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Like eating an orange in the shower. We read about this in VICE. CORNISH: Now, apparently this is a thing. It has its own

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美国国家公共电台 NPR New Orleans' Police Use Of Body Cameras Brings Benefits And New Burdens

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Body cameras have become routine in some police departments. In New Orleans, some say they've had a positive effect on law enforcement culture. But as NPR's Martin Kaste reports, they've also created new burdens. MARTIN KASTE, BYL

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美国国家公共电台 NPR On Both The Left And Right, Trump Is Driving New Political Engagement

DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump often talks about the political movement he inspired. There's also, of course, a movement against him, and NPR's Laura Sydell has been meeting some first-time activists. LAURA SYDELL, BYLINE: Campbell, Calif., a su

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美国国家公共电台 NPR DHS To Help Jewish Community Centers Enhance Security Protocols

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: American Jewish institutions have received more than 120 bomb threats in the last two months. Now the Department of Homeland Security is increasing its support. As NPR's Tovia Smith reports, Jewish community centers have been press

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美国国家公共电台 NPR New York's Met Museum Director Resigns Amid Financial Troubles

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City seemed to be starting this year strong. Tripadvisor called it the number one art museum in the world. Attendance has reached record highs. That happened under the direction of Thoma

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Civilians Flee As Iraqi Army Battles Remaining ISIS Fighters In Mosul

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Next, we report on the lives of people in a war zone, the city of Mosul, once captured by ISIS, now under attack by Iraqi security forces backed by the U.S. Hundreds of thousands of people still live in that city. And NPR's Alice

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Embryo Experiments Reveal Earliest Human Development, But Stir Ethical Debate

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Scientists doing embryo research are facing some sensitive questions over a new generation of scientific experiments, questions like how long should scientists be allowed to keep human embryos alive in their labs to study them? A

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Amid Trump Attacks And Snubs, Zucker's CNN Reclaims Newsy Mission

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump likes to attack the mainstream media whenever he sees an opportunity. And his favorite punching bag is CNN. The network was recently shut out of a White House press briefing, and is often labeled by the president

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Puerto Ricans Reflect On A Century Of (Limited) Citizenship

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Puerto Rico today is marking an important anniversary. It's been a century since President Woodrow Wilson signed a law granting citizenship to people born on the island, but it's a limited form of citizenship. It puts Puerto Rico

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美国国家公共电台 NPR America's 'Complacent Class': How Self-Segregation Is Leading To Stagnation

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: As Americans, we are bound by a collective identity. We see ourselves as independent change makers. We invent things. And we can reinvent ourselves. But that innovation, that desire to keep changing has gone away. That's the cent

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Tiny Fossils Could Be Oldest Evidence Of Life On Earth

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have news this morning about the origin of life. The news is about just how hard it is to find that news. NPR's Rae Ellen Bichell reports. RAE ELLEN BICHELL, BYLINE: Things get hairy when you go looking for the earliest forms

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美国国家公共电台 NPR The Soaring Stock Market And Your Nest Egg

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The stock market has been booming lately. After the Dow crossed 20,000 for the first time in January, it kept surging. It's been above 21,000 this week. NPR's Chris Arnold looks at what's going on and what it means for your retirem

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Big Changes And Major Dilemmas Loom In Next Phase Of ISIS War In Syria

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: U.S. forces are playing a bigger and more direct role in the fighting in Syria. This week they have increased air strikes around the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa. American special operations troops have rappelled out of helicopters a

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