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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Battlefield weapons have been getting smaller and more powerful as technology has improved. But now the military is trying to figure out whether some modern weapons actually pose a danger to troops. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports tha

美国国家公共电台 NPR Yahoo And AOL Move In Together Under 'Oath,' Verizon's New Digital Arm

DAVID GREENE, HOST: So there's a new brand on the Internet that is going to take over some of the old ones, I mean, I guess old in Internet years at least. Yahoo and AOL are now under an umbrella company called Oath. As NPR's Laura Sydell reports thi

美国国家公共电台 NPR #NPRpoetry Tips: Think About What You Know And Take Advantage Of Twitter Constraints

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: There once was a radio host who liked April Poetry Month the most, she thought it would be neat for others to tweet their rhymes in the form of a post. OK, so you know our director Liz Baker wrote that. Anyway, her creative outpo

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Smart People' Asks Hard Questions About Racism In America

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, some hard questions about racism, questions most of us don't really want to ask. Is that something baked into the fabric of American life, a matter of personal preference? Is it just the crutch of ignorant people?

美国国家公共电台 NPR NPR poetry Comes When You 'Write What You Know'

NPR poetry Comes When You 'Write What You Know' MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. Let's take a poetry break. It's time now for some more of your Twitter poems in honor of National Poetry Month. Here are two that deal with the old saying write what you

美国国家公共电台 NPR GrabYourWallet's Anti-Trump Boycott Looks To Expand Its Reach

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Mass protests may become a fixture of Donald Trump's presidency. Yesterday, activists marched in cities across America to pressure the president to release his tax returns and highlight potential Trump family conflicts o

美国国家公共电台 NPR How A Budget Squeeze Can Lead To Sloppy Science And Even Cheating

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Federal money for science has been shrinking. Under the Trump administration's budget proposal, it could be squeezed even further. And when scientists are under financial pressure, they sometimes cut corners in ways that can hurt u

美国国家公共电台 NPR Outgoing 'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Says 'Being Funny Is Being Awake'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The New Yorker magazine is famous for its cartoons. For 20 years, Bob Mankoff has been the gatekeeper. Next month, he gives up his title as The New Yorker's cartoon editor. Mankoff is a man obsessed with humor. He has written many

美国国家公共电台 NPR Experts Calculate Property Damage Costs Of Being 'Fast And Furious'

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Fast cars, attractive people, a stone face, monotone Vin Diesel - must be the new Fast And Furious movie. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS) VIN DIESEL: (As Dom) I think I found my team. CORNISH: This week, the eighth i

美国国家公共电台 NPR Both The Food And The Music Are Made From Scratch At This Texas Joint

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Out on a lonesome highway in the Texas Hill Country, the night sky is awash with stars, the Angus cattle quietly ruminate, and there is a cafe where food and music are made from scratch. It's a seafood place 90 miles west of A

美国国家公共电台 NPR Woman Returns To Her Slave Cabin Childhood Home In The Smithsonian

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The National Museum of African-American History and Culture here in Washington has many artifacts connected to slavery. For one woman, visiting the museum this week was a literal homecoming. Isabell Meggett Lucas was born and raise

美国国家公共电台 NPR U.S. Health Care Wrestles With The 'Pre-Existing Condition'

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Tuesday is Tax Day, and we're going to zero in on those tax questions dealing with health insurance. Health care reporter Julie Rovner will help us out with that in a few minutes. First, this reminder of why health care factor

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Uninjured Victims Of The Virginia Tech Shootings

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the deadliest campus shooting in American history. Survivors' and victims' families will gather at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg to remember the 32 people who were killed. Many others were injured

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trespass, Jail, Repeat: How One Man Has Spent 575 Days in Jail

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: In Nashua, N.H., Michael Treadwell lives on the streets. He has schizophrenia. And as New Hampshire Public Radio's Emily Corwin reports, when people like him don't get the help they need, local taxpayers can end up with a heft

美国国家公共电台 NPR Movie Review: Richard Gere Plays A Scheming New York Fixer In 'Norman'

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Connections are important, especially in business. Think of the adage it's not so much what you know, it's who you know. A new movie centers on a guy who takes that notion to extremes. It's called Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tr

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Powwow Sweat' Promotes Fitness Through Traditional Dance

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A tribe in northern Idaho is incorporating its culture into its fitness programs. It's an effort to tackle high rates of heart disease and obesity. The program is called Powwow Sweat. Northwest News Network's Emily Schwing report

美国国家公共电台 NPR We Asked People What They Know About Taxes. See If You Know The Answers

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Tomorrow is the deadline for filing your taxes. And this year, NPR wanted to find out how much people actually know about the tax system. We partnered with the Ipsos polling company and asked a set of questions about things like

美国国家公共电台 NPR A 73-Year-Old Is Latest Victim Of Deadly Attacks On Mexican Journalists

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: In the last six weeks, four reporters have been murdered in Mexico. The latest victim was Maximino Rodriguez. He was gunned down in his car on Friday afternoon in La Paz, near the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. As

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Epitome Of New York Cool': Letterman Biographer On Late Night Icon

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: David Letterman hosted late night TV for more than three decades with his own brand of quirky funny, like stupid human tricks, throwing a watermelon off a roof and those daily top 10 lists, such as the top 10 things that sound co

美国国家公共电台 NPR In The 1920s, A Community Conspired To Kill Native Americans For Their Oil Money

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Generations ago, the Osage Indian Nation was forced to move. Not for the first time, white settlers pushed them off their land in the 1800s. The writer David Grann sees in that move the start of an astonishing and tragic story. D