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LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The plotline in CW's Jane The Virgin is just a little bit complicated. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, JANE THE VIRGIN) ANTHONY MENDEZ: (As narrator) All right, here we go. As you know, Jane was accidentally artificially insemina

美国国家公共电台 NPR PHOTOS: The Creamy, Sculpted Dunes Of White Sands National Monument

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico is a huge expanse of pure, white sand dunes that form a shifting, spectacular landscape. Here's NPR's Melissa Block with the latest in her series Our Land on a place l

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Mountain Lion Kitten Is Found, Leading To Excitement And Concern

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: OK, now for some cute but worrying science from the animal world. The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area posted a photo earlier this week that is insanely adorable. It's of a newly found mountain lion kitten

美国国家公共电台 NPR Episode 763: BOTUS

ALEX GOLDMARK, HOST: We've been working on this episode for a long while. We had it ready to go. And then, like the rest of the world, we got news that President Trump had ordered missile strikes in Syria. Today's show is in part about responding to

美国国家公共电台 NPR Congressional Leaders Urge Trump Administration For Broader Syria Strategy

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: We start this hour with reaction to President Trump's decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian airbase. That happened last night in response to an apparent chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on civilians

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Shots Fired' Creators Want To 'Challenge Your Perspective' On Police Shootings

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to close things out today by hearing about a new program that opens with a scene all too familiar from the nightly news - a young man is dead in the street, shot by a police officer who thought he saw a weapon. It tur

美国国家公共电台 NPR Listeners Create #NPRpoetry Using Prominent Political Themes

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now we're going to get some more of your Twitter poetry submissions. All this month, we're inviting you to send us your original poems of 140 characters or less. This week - quite a few have had what I suppose you could call poli

美国国家公共电台 NPR The British At 'Their Finest': How A Nation Kept Calm And Carried On

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The aging British matinee idol thinks he's been given too small a role as the uncle of twin sisters. The American who's supposed to play a hero is as dull as a stick. But a young woman in the script department has an idea that migh

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Body-Switching Teen Romance Anime Disaster Flick With 'Your Name.' On It

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Let's take a break from the news and go to the movies. For the first two months of this year, a teen romance called Your Name was the biggest film of 2017, bigger even than Lego Batman. It's a Japanese anime film that made more t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Pork Tacos Topped With Fries: Fuel For Mexico's Diabetes Epidemic

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Global diabetes rates have been increasing dramatically over the past 20 years. In Mexico, 14 percent of adults now suffer from diabetes. It is, in fact, the leading cause of death there, and it's having a huge impact on Mexico's h

美国国家公共电台 NPR During World War I, U.S. Government Propaganda Erased German Culture

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: This week marks the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I, a conflict that shattered empires and cost millions of lives. Here's something else it did on the American home front. It made us a less German country - culturally.

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Real-Life Tax Scam: This Is What IRS Phone Fraud Sounds Like

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Tax season is here. The filing deadline is next Monday. This year, tax day is the 18th, not the 15th. And when tax season heats up, so does scam season. NPR recently received a recording - a real-life phone call between a woman in

美国国家公共电台 NPR Michigan's Tart Cherry Orchards Struggle To Cope With Erratic Spring Weather

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: So far this year, cold weather has frozen blueberries in the south. Rains have drowned lettuce in California. And in Michigan where tart cherries are big business, growers are preparing for a long battle with extreme weather. Pet

美国国家公共电台 NPR Venezuela's Bread Wars: With Food Scarce, Government Accuses Bakers Of Hoarding

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to Venezuela, where an economic crisis has brought thousands of people to the streets. The demonstrations have been growing since the country's supreme court tried to nullify the Congress there. Food and medicine are in short

美国国家公共电台 NPR Esra'a: Would You Speak Up ... Even If It's Dangerous?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today ideas about Speaking Up. Can you introduce yourself please? ESRA'A: Yeah. So my name is Esra'a, and I am from Bahrain. RAZ: Esra'a asked us not to use her last name b

美国国家公共电台 NPR James Hansen: What Makes A Scientist Take A Stand?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, Speaking Up, ideas about what it takes and when you know it's time to say something. JAMES HANSEN: As the ocean gets warmer that melts the ice shelves that come out

美国国家公共电台 NPR Clint Smith: What Do We Risk If We Don't Speak Up?

GUY RAZ, HOST: On the show today, Speaking Up. We're talking about when people choose to speak up and what happens if they don't. So when Clint Smith was a high school teacher, he wanted the students to understand the importance of speaking up and th

美国国家公共电台 NPR Dalia Mogahed: How Does Speaking Up Change Minds?

GUY RAZ, HOST: Have you ever experienced hatred or - I mean, have you ever - I don't know. Has anybody ever said something to you because of who you are, because of your faith that has just been so incredibly hurtful? DALIA MOGAHED: Yes (laughter), a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Family, Death And A Road Trip In 'Ashes To Asheville'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Some books can sweep you away in the first sentence. Sarah Dooley's new book Ashes to Asheville begins with a riff that includes sisterhood, death, cute pets and saucy widows. Let's get the author to read it. SARAH DOOLEY: (Reading

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Syria, The News Of U.S. Missile Strike Is Greeted With Ambivalence

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: NPR's Alison Meuse is in Beirut. She's been talking to people in Syria who oppose the Assad regime, and she's been asking them about last night's airstrikes. ALISON MEUSE, BYLINE: The barrage of Tomahawk missiles came as a surpri