美国国家公共电台 NPR Evangelical Writer Kisses An Old Idea Goodbye

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The author of a famed relationship book is rethinking his own advice. Joshua Harris wrote the book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye. More than 20 years ago, it became a bestselling text of the evangelical purity movement. That movement p

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Monumental Push Behind Getting That Package Delivered By Christmas

The Monumental Push Behind Getting That Package Delivered By Christmas DAVID GREENE, HOST: It is crunch time for getting packages delivered in time for Christmas. And companies like FedEx and UPS and the Postal Service and even Amazon are really feel

美国国家公共电台 NPR Deep Seagrass Bed Could Stall Climate Change, If Climate Change Doesn't Kill It First

Deep Seagrass Bed Could Stall Climate Change, If Climate Change Doesn't Kill It First MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Staying on the subject of climate change for a few more minutes, there was another bright spot this past week amid all the dire warnings we hav

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Dark Side Of The Railroad': A Locomotive Engineer's Fraught Legacy With The Rails

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's time now for StoryCorps. Today, a story about the railroad. It comes to us from Barnie Botone in Bismarck, N.D. In 1875, his ancestor, along with dozens of other Native American leaders, was taken by tra

美国国家公共电台 NPR Pediatricians Voice Concerns About Care Following Two 'Needless' Migrant Deaths

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen traveled to the southwest border today. She went to see conditions for herself after two migrant children died this month while in the custody of Customs and Border Protect

美国国家公共电台 NPR China's Lunar Lander To Explore Moon's Far Side

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a new probe in orbit around the moon. And sometime earlier in this new year, it's expected to land on the Moon's far side, the side we never see from Earth. It is a Chinese probe. And as NPR's Joe Palca explains, although

美国国家公共电台 NPR Detroit's Big Comeback: Out Of Bankruptcy, A Rebirth

DAVID GREENE, HOST: OK. The city of Detroit has reached a major milestone. Five years ago, it went bankrupt - was saddled with more than $18 billion in debt. Well, now Detroit is not only out of bankruptcy but is issuing bonds backed by its own credi

美国国家公共电台 NPR Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Is coconut oil a healthy food? - certainly is promoted as one. Survey a broad group of Americans and 72 percent say, yes, coconut oil is healthy. Talk with some nutritionists, and they say, no, it's not. NPR's April Fulton report

美国国家公共电台 NPR When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive

NOEL KING, HOST: All right, the holiday season is winding down. This time of year often feels like it's all about the cute and the cuddly. Take a listen to this clip from Disney's Lady And The Tramp in which the wife, Darling, gets a big-eyed puppy o

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Sen. Orrin Hatch Shaped America's Health Care In Controversial Ways

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The arrival of the new Congress means the retirement of Utah Senator Orrin Hatch. NOEL KING, HOST: Hatch was elected 42 years ago in 1976, when Gerald Ford was president. Presidents have come and gone since then - seven president

美国国家公共电台 NPR Bangladesh PM Wins 3rd Term After Violent Election, Accusations Of Rigging

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: After election day violence that claimed more than a dozen lives, the ruling party in Bangladesh has won another term. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been in power since 2009. And out of 300 seats in Parliament, Hasina's party,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Way Beyond Pluto, An Icy World Is Ready For Its Close-Up

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: To reach the latest news about our solar system, you have to travel out to Pluto, really far from the sun. And then you travel about a billion miles more. That's what a spacecraft has done. And now it's about to get a look at a m

美国国家公共电台 NPR Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother Of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died, At Age 93

LEILA FADEL, HOST: Nancy Grace Roman led a remarkable life. She joined NASA in 1959, not long after it was created, and went on to become the agency's first chief of astronomy and relativity. She was also known as the mother of the Hubble Space Teles

美国国家公共电台 NPR You Can Eat Like Johnny Cash — Thanks To A Cookbook From Country Music's First Family

DON GONYEA, HOST: About 30-plus years ago, I was right out of college. And I got a job as a disc jockey at a country western radio station in Michigan. And I found out that the great Johnny Cash was coming to play the local county fair. So I hung aro

美国国家公共电台 NPR Utah First In The Nation To Lower Its DUI Limit To .05 Percent

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This Sunday in Utah, the legal blood alcohol limit will drop from .08 percent to .05. It's the lowest DUI limit in the country. Nicole Nixon of member station KUER has this report. NICOLE NIXON, BYLINE: A couple blocks on Main Stre

美国国家公共电台 NPR Here Are Martha Stewart's Tips For Hosting A Terrific New Year's Eve

LEILA FADEL, HOST: New Year's Eve is almost here. Time to say goodbye to 2018 and our holiday advice series Help, I'm Hosting, where we asked you for your hosting challenges and dilemmas. It's our final installment, and it's a special one. We've got

美国国家公共电台 NPR In China's Push For High-Tech, Hackers Target Cutting-Edge U.S. Firms

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The U.S. says intellectual property theft by Chinese hackers is growing, and the U.S. will keep naming and shaming suspected cybercriminals. The Chinese are targeting the country's technology - from major corporations, Silicon Vall

美国国家公共电台 NPR FCC Investigates Widespread CenturyLink Outage That Disrupted 911 Service

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A phone and Internet outage has been disrupting 911 services across the country since yesterday, and today the FCC says it's launched an investigation. Montana Public Radio's Eric Whitney reports. ERIC WHITNEY, BYLINE: Louisiana-ba

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' Makes You Choose Your Own Adventure

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The Netflix show Black Mirror has always asked viewers to imagine technology slightly more advanced and more sinister than we have today. Well, this morning Black Mirror dropped an episode that uses a technology most of us haven't

美国国家公共电台 NPR Amid Trade War With U.S., There Are Signs Of Dissent Among China's Economists

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump meets China's leader, Xi Jinping, at the G-20 summit in Argentina tomorrow. The two will, obviously, have a lot to discuss - in particular, the trade war that doesn't seem to have an end in sight. As NPR's Rob Sch