STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: When Hurricane Harvey dumped 50 inches of rain on Houston, the floodwater a drain somewhere. Much of it went to the Houston Ship Channel, and it brought along a lot of contamination. Now scientists are sampling the channel mud to

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Khizr Khan Says His Faith In America Is Stronger Than Ever

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: When Khizr Khan heard of President Trump's awkward phone call with a widow of a fallen soldier, the call where Trump said he knew what he signed up for, Khan had no doubt what to think. What is wrong with that statement? KHIZR KH

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Playboy Features First Transgender Playmate

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: For the first time, Playboy will feature a transgender woman as its Playmate of the Month, including its centerfold. She is 26-year-old French fashion model Ines Rau. Ms. Rau is among a small group of transgender individuals who

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Dan Brown Pits Creationism Against Science In His Latest Novel, 'Origin'

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: And now from the big screen to the page. Author Dan Brown has used his books to challenge people with questions of God and faith all while sending readers on globe-trotting adventures that leave you feeling both dizzy and satisfi

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美国国家公共电台 NPR After 87 Years At The Smithsonian, Bones Of Alaska Natives Returned And Reburied

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: A village in Alaska is one of the latest to rebury human remains that have been studied and stored at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Hundreds of thousands of Native American graves were excavated in the 19th

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Film 'Te Ata' Tells Real Life Story Of Prolific Native American Performer

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: The film Te Ata tells the true story of Mary Thompson Fisher, who is considered one of the greatest Native American performers. And it was produced by the Chickasaw Nation, which started a film production arm to tell its own stor

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Las Vegas Survivor Discusses Life After Shooting

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: Finally today, it's been nearly three weeks since the Las Vegas massacre, and another victim has been laid to rest. Yesterday, families and friends attended the funeral of Las Vegas Metro Police Officer Charleston Hartfield. He w

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Poll: Most Americans Think Their Own Group Faces Discrimination

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: OK. Brakkton's story grows out of a survey that comes from NPR News, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The survey director was Robert Blendon, who says the aim here was to capt

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Fresh Headache For Murdochs: Bill O'Reilly Got Raise After Secret Payout

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Thirty-two million dollars - that's how much money Bill O'Reilly agreed to pay to a colleague at Fox News to keep her allegations of sexual harassment a secret. That was in January, and it just came out in a report over the weekend

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Megan Phelps-Roper: If You're Raised To Hate, Can You Reverse It?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about dialogue and exchange. Because we're living at a time of pretty intense polarization, a lot of people are angry and confused. And we don't understand how

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Robb Willer: How Do We Bridge The Political Divide?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about dialogue and exchange. And we couldn't possibly do a show about dialogue without talking about politics. OK, so, Robb, I think - I have this feeling that

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美国国家公共电台 NPR They Fell In Love For Life, After She Got Over All The Death

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Time now for StoryCorps. Today, a love story that is just ripe for Halloween. Lynne and Greg Houston met 25 years ago. Lynne was working at a restaurant in Buffalo, N.Y. Greg was a mortician at the funeral ho

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Money May Not Shield Prosperous Blacks From Bigotry, Survey Says

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This next story suggests how hard it can be to avoid racial discrimination. The story comes from a new survey of Americans of all races and ethnicities. It's being released this morning by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble For Weedkiller Dicamba

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Monsanto, the pioneer of genetically modified food, likes to say it is rooted in science, but some leading scientists are accusing the company of denying evidence about the risks of its newest weedkilling technology. NPR's Dan Cha

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Water Spinach Farmers Struggle To Recover After Hurricane Harvey

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And I'm Steve Inskeep with the deeper meaning of water spinach. It's a staple food among some Asian-American families - they use them in stir-fries and soups - but it's grown commercially in only a few parts of the United States.

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Amid Opposition Boycott, Kenyans Vote In Re-Run Of Presidential Election

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Going to turn now to Kenya, where it is election day, and already, we are seeing a lot of violence. At least two people are dead, and dozens have been injured. Four counties have now delayed voting until Saturday. Now, there were

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Guess Who Renoir Was In Love With In 'Luncheon Of The Boating Party'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: In 1880, the artist Renoir wrote a friend that he was in a riverside town near Paris painting oarsman. He'd been itching to do it for a long time. I'm not getting any younger, the 41-year-old artist wrote, and didn't want to defer

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美国国家公共电台 NPR How Black Americans See Discrimination

DAVID GREENE, HOST: People of all races in the United States see racial discrimination regularly, but black Americans report it at the highest rates. This is according to a new survey from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H.

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Sen. Flake: GOP Must Stand Against Trump's Behavior 'Or Lose That Chance'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump's White House agrees with Senator Jeff Flake about one thing. The presidential press secretary says she agrees with Flake's decision to quit. The Arizona Republican, a critic of President Trump, announced his depa

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Why You Shouldn't Count On The Promised $4,000 'Raise' From GOP Tax Plan

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There's not yet a bill for the Republican plan to overhaul the tax code. But the White House already has one of its main talking points. This week, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted that American households would get w

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