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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: In Your Health on this Monday, we report on the dilemma at the heart of the opioid crisis. Many of the addictive drugs that ruin or end lives are also helpful to people with severe pain, so doctors have to strike a balance. We ha

美国国家公共电台 NPR Brain Scientists Look Beyond Opioids To Conquer Pain

DAVID GREENE, HOST: This question of how to find that balance when you have patients in pain and doctors who are fearing addiction is coming up this week as the Society for Neuroscience holds its meetings here in Washington, D.C. And NPR's Jon Hamilt

美国国家公共电台 NPR Separated First By War, Then Sickness, 2 WWII Veterans Are Laid To Rest Together

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The love story between Isabell and Preble Staver came quietly to an end last month. The couple was together for more than seven decades. The Stavers were two of the hundreds of World War II veterans who are dying each day. NPR's S

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Lifetime Of Finding Peace, Purpose And Voice In The Pages Of Comics

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And sometimes being part of a fan community means finding a welcoming group of like-minded people. Other times, fellow fans may not be so nice. Like, maybe you don't want to be in a comic club with Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Book On 'Bunk' For Our Post-Truth Times

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's no secret that America is going through a post-truth or fake news moment. There are people in this country who continue to believe that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an inside job. F

美国国家公共电台 NPR New Exhibit Shows Off Special Effects Pioneer Ray Harryhausen's Lasting Works

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to spend the next few minutes hearing about two unusual stories about the film industry. Long before CGI and digital animation, creatures like those in Clash Of The Titans came alive through the world of stop-motion m

美国国家公共电台 NPR In New Film, 'My Friend Dahmer' Author Portrays Serial Killer As Sympathetic Outcast

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Here's that second story we promised you. There's a new movie out this weekend, and it's a biopic with an interesting backstory of its own. Remember the serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer? Between 1978 and 1991, he murdered 17 people

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump: Putin Again Denied Interfering In Election And 'I Really Believe' He Means It

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to start the hour today in Vietnam, where President Trump is spending the day at a summit with Asia-Pacific leaders, and he's preparing for a meeting with the Vietnamese president. During his visit, Trump signed a pro

美国国家公共电台 NPR After Fires, California Wine Country Wants Tourists Back

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The fires that ravaged parts of Northern California came during peak tourist season for the wineries in the area. Now that the fires are out, Sonoma County wineries and restaurants are open but feeling an economic hit. From membe

美国国家公共电台 NPR Author Explores A Dark History Through A Magical Story In 'Rise Of The Jumbies'

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Writer Tracey Baptiste was born in Trinidad where she grew up on fairy tales and the spoken folktales of the island, stories about creatures called jumbies. Two years ago, she wrote her own Caribbean folktale for middle sch

美国国家公共电台 NPR Instagram Crowds May Be Ruining Nature

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: You scroll through your friend's Instagram feed and see the most beautiful spot and think, I want to go there. It's natural, right? And so you do. Turns out that you are part of the problem, according to Brent Knepper. In t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Standing Up In The World Of Stand-Up: When 'Open Secrets' Finally Go Public

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: In the past few weeks, we have heard stories of sexual harassment in just about every industry from Hollywood to politics to journalism, including here at NPR. The senior vice president of news resigned after harassment allegatio

美国国家公共电台 NPR GOP Tax Cuts Expected To Push Up Nation's Debt

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: One thing the House and Senate tax proposals have in common is that over the next 10 years, they are both likely to add $1.5 trillion to the national debt. The Congressional Budget Office has confirmed the House version would do

美国国家公共电台 NPR With Shiny Pink And Camo, Casket Designer Honors Texas Shooting Victims

With Shiny Pink And Camo, Casket Designer Honors Texas Shooting Victims KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: As they remember the dead, the people in and around Sutherland Springs are taking care of each other. Laura Morales made sandwiches for people. Ronald Morris

美国国家公共电台 NPR Julia Roberts Is Mom In 'Wonder,' And In Life

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When Julia Roberts read the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio, she knew she wanted to star in its adaptation. So she called her agent. And as luck would have it, the producer on the project had worked with her on Pretty Woman. Wo

美国国家公共电台 NPR Dre Urhahn: How Can Public Art Projects Transform Rough Neighborhoods?

GUY RAZ, HOST: So can you tell me about the - how the favela painting project started. Like, did you guys just go to Rio and - you know, to sort of check them out? DRE URHAHN: No, it was actually different. Jeroen - he had won a competition to make a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Benjamin Zander: How Does Music Transform Us?

GUY RAZ, HOST: When can you remember a time when you played music for somebody, and it had a profound change on what was going on around around them? BENJAMIN ZANDER: It's hard for me to remember a time when I played music when it didn't have that ef

美国国家公共电台 NPR Magda Sayeg: What's The Emotional Power Behind ＂Yarn Bombing＂?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today - ideas about the subtle power of art to transform the way each of us sees the world. MAGDA SAYEG: I say something similar to that. I always say, like, art won't solv

美国国家公共电台 NPR EL Seed: Can The Beauty Of Arabic Calligraphy Shift Perspectives?

GUY RAZ, HOST: What are you doing in New York? EL SEED: Actually, I came to meet some people for, like, a future project that's going to happen in 2018. But it's too secret. I can't talk about it. RAZ: Oh, you - come on, little bit - just a... EL SEE

美国国家公共电台 NPR Broadway's 'The Band's Visit' Tells A Story Of Common Ground Between Cultures

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: David Yazbek's mother is Jewish, his father Lebanese. In his newest Broadway musical, The Band Visit, (ph) Mr. Yazbek wanted to write about the meeting of those two cultures. And as Jeff Lunden reports, his show focuses on the comm