美国国家公共电台 NPR Otis Redding's 'Unfinished Life' Still Resonates

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's been just about 50 years since Otis Redding died. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, SHAKE) OTIS REDDING: (Singing) Shake - let me hear the whole crowd. Shake - everybody sing it. Shake - a little bit louder, shake... SIMON: Otis Redding ign

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Captain Class' Defines The Greatest Sports Teams Ever Based On One Character

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: There is no better, faster way to start a barstool argument with another sports fan than to trot out a list of the world's greatest teams. That's a line from the new book The Captain Class. The author is Sam Walker, and he se

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hank Azaria Says 'Brockmire' Has Been With Him For Years

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Brockmire is back. Jim Brockmire, the beloved old voice of the Kansas City Royals baseball team, who became one of the first Internet sensations 10 years ago when he shared the shock of a profound personal embarrassment without dro

美国国家公共电台 NPR Amandla Stenberg 'Infiltrates' Teen Romance World In 'Everything, Everything'

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: You may recognize our next guest from her role as Rue in the movie The Hunger Games. Amandla Stenberg made her mark as the smart sidekick to Katniss Everdeen played by Jennifer Lawrence. Stenberg is also making her mark outsi

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Are You Anybody?' Jeffrey Tambor Chronicles A Lifetime In Acting

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Jeffrey Tambor is a star at an age which a lot of other stars have already burned out. He's been a professional working actor since the early '70s. He's done Shakespeare and Avis commercials, Hollywood Squares and La Cage Aux Folle

美国国家公共电台 NPR Smithsonian Solves 150-Year-Old Mystery Death Of Collector And Puts Bones On Display

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Let's turn now to a mystery that has taken scientists more than 150 years to solve. It involves the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and a skeleton. NPR's Scott Greenstone has the story. SCOTT GREENSTONE, BYLINE: In 1852, w

美国国家公共电台 NPR Parade Floats And Altered K-Pop Songs Mark South Korea's Coming Election

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Tensions may be rising over North Korea's nuclear program, but South Korea remains outwardly calm. A presidential election comes next week, and the scene in the capital, Seoul, includes parade floats and K-pop. NPR's Lauren Fraye

美国国家公共电台 NPR FCC Chief Makes Case For Tackling Net Neutrality Violations 'After The Fact'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: So if you like streaming shows on Netflix or Hulu, these next few months may be crucial for you. That is because the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission wants to loosen government oversight of internet service provid

美国国家公共电台 NPR Here Is What's In The House-Approved Health Care Bill

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: President Trump and congressional Republicans celebrated in the White House Rose Garden today after the House narrowly passed health care legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fidget Spinner Emerges As Must-Have Toy Of The Year

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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Why Can't We Own A Roller Coaster?' And Other Queries, Answered By A Dad

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: And it is time now for StoryCorps, giving friends and family the chance to ask each other the questions they have always wanted to ask. Today, we hear from two brothers. ISAIAH FREDERICKS: I am Isaiah D'Angelo

美国国家公共电台 NPR Republicans Scrap Rule For Small-Business Retirement Plans

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Senate Republicans have voted to scrap an Obama-era policy that lets states offer retirement savings plans to millions of small business employees. Here's NPR's Chris Arnold. CHRIS ARNOLD, BYLINE: Many small businesses say that t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fact Check: Are Prosecutors Too Quick To Let The Police Off?

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: In Louisiana, the next move belongs to state prosecutors. They decide whether to file charges in a high-profile police shooting. Federal prosecutors say they will not act against two police officers who shot Alton Sterling. The s

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'I Belonged Nowhere': A Story Of Displacement, From A Novelist Who Knows

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: At the very start of a novel by Hala Alyan, a woman does what seems like a very simple thing. She buys a coffee set - a dozen cups, a coffee pot, a tray. It's a simple thing that becomes painful because she is a Palestinian woman

美国国家公共电台 NPR LA's 14th Factory Offers A Warehouse Full Of Art And 'Otherworldly' Experiences

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Now, NPR arts correspondent Mandalit del Barco is going to take us to a new pop-up art installation in Lincoln Heights. That's a neighborhood here in LA, just east of downtown. And she reports the exhibition by artist Simon Birch

美国国家公共电台 NPR Spit Test May Reveal The Severity Of A Child's Concussion

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Every year, more than 1 million children and adolescents sustain a concussion. The symptoms may vanish in days or last for months. And right now, doctors usually cannot predict how long the recovery will take. That could be chang

美国国家公共电台 NPR Without A Special Visa, Foreign Startup Founders Turn To A Workaround

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Here's one thing we mean when we say that America is a nation of immigrants. Immigration advocates contend that about half of the most lucrative startup businesses in this country were founded by immigrants. But it is complicated

美国国家公共电台 NPR From Ancient Greece, Lessons On The Risk Of A Modern, Accidental War

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: What is the most serious threat to the U.S., a resurgent Russia, Islamic State terrorism, a nuclear Iran? Maybe it's none of the above. It could be something called the Thucydides Trap. NPR national security correspondent Greg My

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Canadian Dairy Farmers Escape The Global Milk Glut

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump has amended several of his positions since inauguration. One thing has remained consistent, though, Trump's belief that the United States is getting a raw deal from international trade agreements. STEVE INSKEEP, H

美国国家公共电台 NPR Peter Navarro: A 'Bricklayer' Of Trump's Protectionist Wall

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump has amended several of his positions since inauguration. One thing has remained consistent, though, Trump's belief that the United States is getting a raw deal from international trade agreements. STEVE INSKEEP, H