美国国家公共电台 NPR Frankie Cosmos Examines Fear, Fame And Womanhood

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, BEING ALIVE) FRANKIE COSMOS: (Singing) Seven, eight, nine - rest. Being alive - I see you in everything... SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Don't be fooled by the upbeat energy in the music of Frankie Cosmos. Those drums and guitars are paired

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'World Make Way': New Poems Paint Classic Pictures

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Pictures can be poems and vice versa, feelings captured in a phrase, a stroke or an image. Leonardo da Vinci said, painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. Lee Bennett H

美国国家公共电台 NPR Glenda Jackson Stands Tall, On And Off Stage

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A generation after it won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Edward Albee's Three Tall Women makes its Broadway debut. Three women of different generations - one in her 90s, one in her 50s, one in her 20s - are brought together around a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Jon Peede, Trump's Nominee To Lead NEH, Makes His Case On Why Agency Should Exist

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump has chosen a leader for an agency that he tried to eliminate. The White House proposed cutting funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the NEH. Instead, Congress increased NEH funding in the spending

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Hey Mom,' Louie Anderson Has A Laugh With His Leading Lady

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Comedian Louie Anderson would like to introduce you to his mom. LOUIE ANDERSON: My mom, Ora Zella Anderson - I like to always say her name. GREENE: That's beautiful. ANDERSON: Yeah, it's a great name - isn't it? She was very lovel

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Atlanta Seeks To Restore Services, Ransomware Attacks Are On The Rise

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The city of Atlanta is under siege. Many of its online systems were crippled by hackers who were trying to extort tens of thousands of dollars from the city. Cybersecurity experts are warning that the threat to public services may

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Serial' Subject Adnan Syed Deserves A New Trial, Appeals Court Rules

NOEL KING, HOST: OK. If you listen to the hit podcast Serial, you know the name Adnan Syed. The podcast was about his murder conviction in 2000. But an appeals court in Maryland has backed a decision that vacated his conviction, and Syed might be get

美国国家公共电台 NPR K-Pop Stars Red Velvet Set To Perform In Pyongyang This Weekend

DAVID GREENE, HOST: K-pop is popular in much of the world, and it is about to extend its reach into North Korea. One of the genre's hottest acts is performing there this weekend. As NPR's Elise Hu reports, the music may be lighthearted, but the purpo

美国国家公共电台 NPR Chinese Dissident Finds Struggles, Independence In America After Immigrating

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Flushing, the neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., is home to the largest population of Chinese immigrants in any city outside Asia. One of those immigrants is Zhuang Liehong. He arrived in 2014 from a small village in southwestern China

美国国家公共电台 NPR 3 Photographers Who Captured The Undersides Of Life

NOEL KING, HOST: Photographs taken over the course of 50 years are on view in Los Angeles. Three different photographers captured stunning and shocking and provocative images. And then a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art found connections amo

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Ready Player One' Is Full Of '80s Nostalgia And 'Easter Eggs'

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The young adult bestseller Ready Player One is about the search for an Easter egg - not the kind that kids will search for this weekend, Easter egg in the sense of an unexpected bonus feature, the kind found in video games. Filmmak

美国国家公共电台 NPR Time's Running Out For Many Frail, Older People In Puerto Rico

NOEL KING, HOST: Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico more than six months ago, and for people living on tight budgets, the storm's economic aftermath has been an enormous challenge. Reporter Sarah Varney went to the suburb of San Juan and she met a retir

美国国家公共电台 NPR Christian Colleges Are Tangled In Their Own LGBT Policies

DAVID GREENE, HOST: We have reported here before on a conflict between Christian conservatives and supporters of LGBT rights. Religious colleges can be a battleground in that struggle. Many of those schools hold to a belief that marriage is only for

美国国家公共电台 NPR Dept. Of Education Fail: Teachers Lose Grants, Forced To Repay Thousands In Loans

DAVID GREENE, HOST: We have some exclusive reporting from NPR to bring you this morning. For years, the U.S. government has tried to entice promising college students to become teachers in schools that serve lots of low-income families. They've done

美国国家公共电台 NPR Frustrated Supreme Court Looks For A Solution To Partisan Gerrymandering

NOEL KING, HOST: The curtain rises today on Act 2 of extreme partisan gerrymandering, a play in three acts currently onstage at the U.S. Supreme Court. NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg updates the plotline of the biggest legal controv

美国国家公共电台 NPR Solo Karaoke Booths Open In China

NOEL KING, HOST: Good morning. I'm Noel King. There are certain things that are really fun as long as you're really good at them. Karaoke - if you've got a beautiful voice, you probably love it. If you're tone-deaf like me, singing in public is a nig

美国国家公共电台 NPR An Americana Hymnal For The Doomsday Cult Of 'Far Cry 5'

(SOUNDBITE OF DAN ROMER'S NOW THAT THIS OLD WORLD IS ENDING) ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The award-winning composer Dan Romer is best known for scoring TV shows and films like Beasts Of The Southern Wild. Recently his career took a turn from movies to video g

美国国家公共电台 NPR Salvation Army Opens Its First-Ever Supermarket, In Baltimore

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: City leaders in Baltimore estimate that nearly a quarter of people there lack access to healthy food. Many go to mini-marts for groceries where prices can be high and fresh produce scarce. Now the Salvation Army is trying to fill t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Do Women Candidates Have An Advantage In 2018?

NOEL KING, HOST: Voters in the U.S. have not always seen women and men as equals in politics. Research has shown that women running for office have to work extra hard to be seen as likable and to prove their qualifications. But in a year when women a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Under Oath: Sometimes Combative, Often Boastful, Usually Lacking Details

NOEL KING, HOST: President Trump has said that he wants to testify in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. He may also have to testify in two pending lawsuits. Trump has a long history of suing and being sued. And as a result, he's