美国国家公共电台 NPR Gabourey Sidibe's Message To The World: 'Mind Your Own Body'

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Do you remember the movie Precious? There were all these big names attached to the film. Oprah was the executive producer. Lee Daniels directed it. But the young woman at the center of the Oscar-nominated movie was far from

美国国家公共电台 NPR Celebrity Chef Tom Colicchio: 'We Can End Hunger In This Country'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you know Tom Colicchio, you probably know him as Top Chef judge, author and restaurant owner. He is also a food activist. Colicchio has just been to Capitol Hill urging Congress to support nutrition programs, especially health

美国国家公共电台 NPR Environmentalists, Coal Companies Rally Around Technology To Clean Up Coal

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And, you know, the debate over coal can really seem like a battle between bitter enemies. You have environmentalists who want to replace coal with cleaner fuels and coal boosters who want to revive the industry. But there really i

美国国家公共电台 NPR Yo-Yo Dieting May Pose Serious Risks For Heart Patients

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Some people call it yo-yo dieting. This is when you gain weight and then you lose it and then you gain it back again, then maybe you lose it. It can be really frustrating, but that is actually not all. There's a recent study in Th

美国国家公共电台 NPR Not All South Koreans Satisfied With Japan's Apology To 'Comfort Women'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The United States considers Japan and South Korea essential allies, especially when it comes to dealing with the threat from North Korea's missile and nuclear program, but one issue dogs relations which goes all the way back to W

美国国家公共电台 NPR New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived In The Americas Far Earlier Than Thought

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Artifacts found in Southern California have puzzled scientists for years. Some now say they are proof that humans lived in the area 130,000 years ago, well before anyone thought. That would make them the oldest evidence of humans i

美国国家公共电台 NPR Legal Issues Remain After Arkansas Executions

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Tonight, in Arkansas, the state plans to execute its final inmate after a string of executions before its lethal injection drugs expire. Attorneys for the condemned men have argued about their innocence, intellectual abilities, m

美国国家公共电台 NPR Overlooked Drug Could Save Thousands Of Moms After Childbirth

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Now promising news for moms-to-be around the world. Doctors say they have found a drug that prevents deaths during childbirth. It could save tens of thousands of lives each year, especially in poor countries. NPR's Michaeleen Dou

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Trump's First 100 Days, A Dramatic Reduction In Immigration

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Nearly a hundred days into his administration, President Trump has drastically reduced the flow of immigration, both legal and illegal, into the U.S. He's been able to accomplish that despite the fact that many of his signature i

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Signs Executive Order On Offshore Drilling And Marine Sanctuaries

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump will sign an executive order tomorrow that aims to expand offshore drilling. The order will essentially try to undo actions taken by his predecessor, Barack Obama, that restricted drilling in the Arctic Pacific and

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Trump And Congress Flip-Flop On Health Care, Insurers Try To Plan Ahead

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Republicans in Congress say they are getting closer to an agreement on health care. House Speaker Paul Ryan said today we're going to go when we have the votes. It's unclear when that might be. Yesterday, lawmakers put forward an a

美国国家公共电台 NPR John Lydon On Anarchy, Politics And 'Mr. Rotten's Songbook'

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美国国家公共电台 NPR An Exoneree Shares His Story Of Wrongful Conviction In 'Anatomy Of Innocence'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In 2007, after decades insisting he was innocent, Jerry Miller of Chicago was finally vindicated. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED MAN: There aren't too many people happier today than Jerry Miller. Hugs abound. (APPLA

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve' Crunches The (Literary) Numbers

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Bear with me because we're going to spend a minute or so talking about statistical analysis, you know, the kind used to analyze data and predict who might win March Madness or an election. But what if we used data to look at liter

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why The Newly Proposed Sepsis Treatment Needs More Study

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The noted astronomer Carl Sagan had a saying. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Last week, a physician made the extraordinary claim that he had an effective treatment for sepsis, sometimes known as blood poisonin

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump's Draft Proposal Makes Tweaks To NAFTA

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump may take a less extreme approach to rewriting NAFTA than his fiery campaign rhetoric suggested. A Trump administration document is circulating on Capitol Hill, and it suggests the White House wants the trade agreeme

美国国家公共电台 NPR Distraction, On Street And Sidewalk, Helps Cause Record Pedestrian Deaths

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It's the oldest form of transportation - walking - and new evidence shows it's getting more dangerous. A new report by the Governors Highway Safety Association shows the number of pedestrians killed in traffic jumped 11 percent las

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Democrats Are Good For Gun Sales': Guess What Happened After Trump's Election

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Donald Trump won the support of the National Rifle Association and many gun owners by opposing any limits to the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. Here he is at the NRA convention last May. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

美国国家公共电台 NPR Two Ways Of Documenting Uncertainty: 'All This Panic' And 'God Knows Where I Am'

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Two documentaries told in two very different ways. First, All This Panic takes a fly-on-the-wall approach with its teenage subjects - no narration. And then God Knows Where I Am teases out its story as if it were a mystery novel.

美国国家公共电台 NPR For Egyptian Collector, No Object's Too Dusty Or Trivial For 'Mosaic Of Our History'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: To Cairo now for a story about another collector and collection. Amgad Naguib gathers ephemera - incidents of daily life like ticket stubs or photographs, letters, even disposable toothbrushes. He says these items tell the real his