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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: One of the ingredients a successful Broadway show needs is a talented cast. That starts with talented casting directors, the people who can see a Tony-winning star in the making, say, when a performer walks into an audition as a co

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The federal corruption trial of New Jersey's senior senator starts tomorrow. Democrat Bob Menendez faces a dozen charges for his alleged role in a bribery scheme, a scheme involving one of his close friends. The senator denie

美国国家公共电台 NPR Leaving The Past Behind — Or Trying To — In Rushdie's Latest

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The author Salman Rushdie has set his books all over the world. His most famous novels, Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses, take place in India and the U.K., both countries where Rushdie has lived. His new book is mostly se

美国国家公共电台 NPR Coastal Vietnamese Community Leans On Faith, And Each Other, To Rebuild After Harvey

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now let's go to Texas for a few minutes. It might seem like it was a lifetime ago, but it was just two weeks ago that Hurricane Harvey hit Texas. Our reporters have been trying to get to as many places as they can to report o

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Right now in Your Health, we'll examine a different natural phenomenon that's engulfing the northwest of the country. That would be forest fires. It's an unusually bad wildfire season, and for weeks people have been breathing

美国国家公共电台 NPR So Your Kitchen Sponge Is A Bacteria Hotbed. Here's What To Do

DAVID GREENE, HOST: For the first time, scientists have figured out just how many tiny critters are living inside your kitchen sponge. Now, don't fear. NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff says there is something you can do about this. MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF, BYLI

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Not A Textbook Case': Barcelona Attackers' Hometown Wonders How It Bred Terrorists

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: We'll have more on Hurricane Irma in a few minutes. But first, an update on last month's terrorist attacks in and around Barcelona. Spanish police say the suspects don't fit the usual ISIS profile. And this might have been a d

美国国家公共电台 NPR France's Brittany Sees New Wave Of Brits Post-Brexit

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: The view now from another tourist destination has been transformed. The French region of Brittany, the prospect of Britain exiting the European Union has sent a wave of British citizens there in search of, not just a holiday,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Emperor X: 'We Are Much More Than The Sum Of The Diseases And Disabilities We Carry'

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Chad Matheny dropped his pursuit of a master's degree in physics for a career as a musician. Under the name Emperor X, he's released eight albums, a bunch of cassettes. He had one of his songs used in a major motion picture. T

美国国家公共电台 NPR Here's What 2 Big College Systems Think Of The End Of DACA

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: About a quarter of a million DREAMers - young people covered by DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals - are enrolled in college this fall. DACA has permitted about 800,000 of these undocumented immigrants who are brought

美国国家公共电台 NPR Dental Schools Add An Urgent Lesson: Think Twice About Prescribing Opioids

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'OMG' Turns 100

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, news you can use if, say, you're going out to dinner with some particularly erudite friends and you want to impress them, especially if they are people who get annoyed when kids use terms like OMG. You might be sur

美国国家公共电台 NPR Len Wein, Co-Creator Of Wolverine And Storm Comics, Dies At 69

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Comic book writer and editor Len Wein has died. He helped create a lot of famous characters during his nearly 50-year career. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Like Storm, the white-haired X-Man who controls the weather. MCEVERS: Human-plant hy

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'World Without Mind': How Tech Companies Pose An Existential Threat

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: I'm Ari Shapiro with All Tech Considered. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SHAPIRO: Journalist Franklin Foer worries that we're all losing our minds as big tech companies infiltrate every aspect of our lives. In his new book, Foer compares the

美国国家公共电台 NPR Americans' Borrowing Hits Another Record. Time To Worry?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Americans' overall household debt has hit a record high, nearly $13 trillion and rising, which makes people wonder if we've already forgotten the lessons of the bubble of borrowing in the run up to the Great Recession. Here's NPR

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Survivor Cafe' Explores How To Preserve The Legacy Of Horrific Events

'Survivor Cafe' Explores How To Preserve The Legacy Of Horrific Events KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Elizabeth Rosner writes this in her new book, Survivor Cafe. We are all obligated to remember. But the best way to do that when it comes to atrocities and oth

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hillary Clinton Is 'Done,' But Not Going Away

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Hillary Clinton didn't expect to lose the election. She spent the last several months trying to figure out what happened. And those two words - what happened - are the title of her new book out today. NPR's Tamara Keith covered Cli

美国国家公共电台 NPR Air Pollution From Industry Plagues Houston In Harvey's Wake

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: All right, let's circle back to the U.S. and the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. As if the record rainfall and flooding were not enough, many Houston-area residents are now coping with increased air pollution. Houston's petrol

美国国家公共电台 NPR Amid Cancer Treatment, McCain Releases Battle Cry For A Functional Congress

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Arizona Senator John McCain is undergoing treatment for a deadly form of brain cancer, but you'd never know it by watching him work. As the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, McCain is managing the Senate debate on the annua

美国国家公共电台 NPR Paul Knoepfler: What Are The Unintended Consequences Of Human Gene Editing?

GUY RAZ, HOST: OK. So Juan Enriquez is saying that this is all superpromising and exciting, and we could actually eliminate disease. And we could create... PAUL KNOEPFLER: Right. RAZ: ...You know, future humans who are immune from these horrible affl