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NOEL KING, HOST: There is an uncomfortable irony at the center of treatment for high blood pressure. High blood pressure itself often doesn't make people feel that bad, but the medicines used to treat it can make people feel lousy, so some people don

美国国家公共电台 NPR Life Above A Library Was Like Living In Neverland

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Imagine what it would be like to grow up living in a library. For much of the 20th century, public libraries built by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie included apartments for the families of custodians. A new play opening i

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Super-Hot Pepper That Sent A Man To The ER

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now the case of the hot pepper and the horrible headache. NPR's Richard Harris took a closer look at this medical curiosity. RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE: A young doctor named Kulothungan Gunasekaran has a knack for finding odd eve

美国国家公共电台 NPR President Trump Pardons 'Scooter' Libby, Former Cheney Chief Of Staff

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump today took the extraordinary step of overruling his Republican predecessor George W. Bush and granting a pardon to Lewis Scooter Libby. He served as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby was convicte

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Attorney Michael Cohen's Secret 3rd Client: Fox News Host Sean Hannity

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in court today in New York City. And we learned that Cohen doesn't just represent the president. A federal judge ordered Cohen's attorney to identify another client as part of a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Cosby Accuser Andrea Constand Says She Takes The Stand 'For Justice'

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Bill Cosby was back in court this week. He is being tried again for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. The first trial last year ended in a deadlocked jury. Six of Cosby's accusers testified a

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

美国国家公共电台 NPR Is Netflix On Its Way To World Domination Of Streaming?

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Netflix blew past Wall Street expectations this week and added close to 7.5 million new subscribers. Its popularity has been leaving rivals Amazon and Hulu in the dust. NPR's Laura Sydell looks at whether the company that made bin

美国国家公共电台 NPR The CIA Introduces Gina Haspel After Her Long Career Undercover

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The nominee to replace Mike Pompeo is his deputy, Gina Haspel. She worked undercover for three decades in some of the CIA's most challenging jobs, but critics are focused on her role in the CIA's waterboarding campaign. In response