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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In Saudi Arabia, there are rules about how to interact with people of the opposite sex, which can make dating sort of hard or impossible. That could be changing, though. Here's NPR's Jackie Northam. JACKIE NORTHAM, BYLINE: The Wh

美国国家公共电台 NPR From Chaos To Calm: A Life Changed By Ketamine

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of the country's biggest pharmaceutical companies, Johnson Johnson, is working on a new drug for depression. It's based on ketamine. Ketamine is a common anesthetic. It's also a popular party drug known as Special K. But doct

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Everything Is A Disaster': Guatemala's Fuego Volcano Erupts, Killing At Least 62

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A volcano in Guatemala erupted Sunday, sending ash, lava and deadly gases down a mountainside near the capital. More than 20 people died. Hundreds are injured, and officials fear casualty numbers will rise. NPR's Scott Neuman has

美国国家公共电台 NPR Iowa Democrats Want Back Control Of The State, Starting With The Governor

NOEL KING, HOST: All right. We're going to go now to Iowa. High stakes there for Democrats who will go to the polls tomorrow to pick a candidate to run against the state's Republican governor. Iowa Public Radio's Clay Masters reports the candidates a

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Longtime Israeli-Palestinian Friendship Falls Apart

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There are times when we can connect surprisingly deeply with someone and then never see them again - a missed connection. Eight years ago, when I was a correspondent in the Middle East, I did a story about two people - an I

美国国家公共电台 NPR With The Rise Of Legal Weed, Drug Education Moves From 'Don't' to 'Delay'

With The Rise Of Legal Weed, Drug Education Moves From 'Don't' to 'Delay' LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: California entered the brave, new world of marijuana legalization in 2018. And it's impossible to ignore. There are new dispensaries opening, even bi

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Graduates In Santa Fe And Parkland Look Ahead, A Look Back On Activism This Year

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And on Sunday, surviving seniors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., will get their diplomas. So now we want to take a look back on what's happened in the nearly four months since the shooting at that schoo

美国国家公共电台 NPR Flooding And Rising Seas Threaten America's Oldest Farmland

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Farming is a big part of the economy on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. But the land there is sinking, and as the climate warms, sea levels are rising. NPR's Jennifer Ludden spoke with farmers determined to hold on. JENNIFER LUDDEN,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Former First Lady Barbara Bush Dies At 92

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Former first lady Barbara Bush has died. She was 92 years old and had suffered from heart problems. Mrs. Bush opted to discontinue medical treatment over the weekend and focus instead on comfort care. That's according to the office

美国国家公共电台 NPR James Comey Says FBI 'Would Be Worse Today' If Not For His Actions

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We've been questioning former FBI Director James Comey. He walked into our studios here last night. Hard to miss him in the lobby, the guy who's 6-foot-8. He wore a jacket but no tie. Comey writes in a new book that as FBI direct

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Notes From A Public Typewriter' Muse On Everything From Cats To Commencement

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Five years ago, a husband and wife opened a bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich. Michael and Hilary Gustafson called it Literati. And, almost on a whim, they did something that would make them famous in the town. MICHAEL GUSTAFSON: We bas

美国国家公共电台 NPR What's It Like To Pose For David Hockney? We Asked The People In His Portraits

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: At the age of 80, the artist David Hockney has put on a show in Los Angeles called 82 Portraits And 1 Still-life, which got NPR's Susan Stamberg thinking about the people who posed for him. SUSAN STAMBERG, BYLINE: The youngest is

美国国家公共电台 NPR An Anti-Immigration Speech Divided Britain 50 Years Ago. It Still Echoes Today

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Fifty years ago today, as the U.S. was reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King, the British politician Enoch Powell delivered an apocalyptic warning to his Conservative Party about the dangers of mass immigration. Pow

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Pokemon Inspired A Citizen Science Project To Monitor Tiny Streams

DAVID GREENE, HOST: It is springtime. And in parched western states, a lot of people are watching closely as snows melt and the rivers rise. Now, satellites can monitor water levels in the biggest rivers, but they do not spot the smaller streams and

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Duke University Won't Honor Freshman Roommate Requests This Fall

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Meeting your college roommate used to be one of the anxieties of the first week of school - but if you'd been paired with B.J. Leiderman, who writes our theme music. But these days, many freshmen meet in advance online and arrange

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'We Came A Long Way': After Prison, A New Chance For A Dad And His Daughter

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: And it's time for StoryCorps this morning. Today a daughter talks with her dad about a confusing time. When 17-year-old Abby Gagliardo was a kid, her dad, Ralph, was sent to prison. He's been out for five year

美国国家公共电台 NPR Novelist Richard Powers Finds New Stories Deep In Old Growth Forests

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Richard Powers likes to explore big ideas in his novels. He has written about artificial intelligence, game theory, genetics, music and a lot of other things. In his latest book, The Overstory, Powers takes on trees and the lives o

美国国家公共电台 NPR Maine Asylum-Seeker Fights For His Right To Poetry

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Next week, high school students from all over the country will meet in Washington, D.C., to recite poems. It's for a national competition called Poetry Out Loud. The state champion from Maine has been barred from the contest becaus

美国国家公共电台 NPR 8 Years After Deepwater Horizon Explosion, Is Another Disaster Waiting To Happen?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Eight years ago today, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 people and led to a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident prompted big changes in how the country regulates offshore drilling. No

美国国家公共电台 NPR Behind 'Ear Hustle,' The Podcast Made In Prison

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A few years ago, Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods started a project - making a podcast about life in prison - for inmates by inmates. NIGEL POOR: Our goal was to do a podcast that would be played on the closed-circuit station inside o