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North Korean Defector Hopes To See Loved Ones Again But Remains Skeptical MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In South Korea, people are optimistic following last week's historic summit between their leader, President Moon, and North Korea's Kim Jong Un. That's

美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Government Sends Warning To Vaping Companies

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Vaping is often billed as a healthier alternative to cigarettes or a way to help smokers quit. But the manufacturing of flavored vape products has drawn minors to electronic smoking. Colorado Public Radio's John Daley has more on

美国国家公共电台 NPR Questions Raised About Study Of Device To Ease Opioid Withdrawal

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a device on the market that is supposed to help people who are trying to quit opioids. The FDA has allowed the device based on a study, but that study may have serious flaws. Jake Harper from our member station WFYI in In

美国国家公共电台 NPR Questlove Aims To Save Your Brain: 'Creativity Might Be In Jeopardy'

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Our next guest is Ahmir Thompson, also known as Questlove. He's a drummer and a bunch of other things. AHMIR THOMPSON: People know me as a founding member of The Roots. I DJ occasionally. I was a professor at NYU - oh, a televisi

美国国家公共电台 NPR Pentagon's No. 2 Watches The Money — And The Future

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Frozen Food Sales Feel The Heat As Consumers Opt For Fresh

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Call this the freezing out of frozen food - you know, TV dinners, which were a novelty when they first showed up in national supermarkets back in the 1950s. (SOUNDBITE OF AD) UNIDENTIFIED VOICE ACTOR: It's the first and only three

美国国家公共电台 NPR We're Looking For Poems On Teamwork

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: National Poetry Month just ended, but, really, when is it ever not time for a poem? MORNING EDITION is teaming with our contributor and poet Kwame Alexander, and we need your help. We need you to submit a poem made of couplets. D

美国国家公共电台 NPR Real-Time Facial Recognition Is Available, But Will U.S. Police Buy It?

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Police in the U.S. have been using facial recognition software for years, usually after a suspect is caught on camera during a crime. Now real-time facial recognition is on the horizon. In China, authorities are touting a new

美国国家公共电台 NPR Taking The 'Journey' Through Alzheimer's Together

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Now we check in on the Greenes. Pansy is one of the 5.7 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease. She and her husband Winston call her illness part of their journey together. We first met the Greenes in 2013 when they talked abou

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sorry, Kermit — In New TV Reboots, The Future Of Friendship Is Female

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Reboots are all over television right now from Roseanne to Will And Grace. But updating a show that's aimed at children and teenagers often means reworking the friendship between female characters. NPR's Neda Ulaby has more. NEDA U

美国国家公共电台 NPR Ranchers Sour On Trump Administration Over Proposal To Bring Back Grizzly Bears

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Grizzly bears may be on their way back to rural Washington state. The Trump administration is thinking about reintroducing the predators just south of the Canadian border and about 100 miles north of Seattle. And rural farmers an

美国国家公共电台 NPR Bloody-Scepter'd 'Tyrant' Explores Shakespeare's Take On Politics

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Shakespeare wrote great tyrants - Macbeth, the Scott who plots a bloody route to the throne. Richard III, the brother of a king and rudely stamped, in Shakespeare's phrase, who murders his way into power and madness. Coriolanus, th

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sen. McCain's Absence Looms Over Senate

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Republican Senator John McCain has not stepped foot in the Capitol this year. His brain cancer treatment and related health problems have kept him back home in Arizona. NPR congressional correspondent Susan Davis reports McCa

美国国家公共电台 NPR Many Venezuelan Workers Are Leaving The Job, And The Country

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: As Venezuela gets ready to hold its presidential election next Saturday, Nicolas Maduro, the country's authoritarian president, predicts he'll win another six-year term despite chronic food shortages, hyperinflation, widespread une

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Earth's 'Bigger, Older Cousin' Maybe Doesn't Even Exist

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Can A Cocktail Of Vitamins And Steroids Cure A Major Killer In Hospitals?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: NPR has learned that hospitals in Michigan and New York this week started testing an experimental treatment that could tackle one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. More than 700 Americans die every day from sepsis. This

美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Employees Face Cuts To Retirement Benefits And Pay Freezes

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Federal employees can be forgiven for feeling whiplashed by the Trump administration. The president has proclaimed this to be Public Service Recognition Week, acknowledging the nation's civil servants for, quote, their hard w

美国国家公共电台 NPR It's Not Just The Thin Air That's Breathtaking: The Documentary 'Mountain'

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Climb Every Mountain, Rocky Mountain High, Night On Bald Mountain - music and mountains have long been linked in the public imagination. Critic Bob Mondello says a documentary called Mountain finds a new sort of purity in the con

美国国家公共电台 NPR John Kelly On Trump, The Russia Investigation And Separating Immigrant Families

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: General John Kelly is at the center of what is arguably the most turbulent presidential administration in modern times. A decorated four-star Marine Corps general with four decades in the service, he serves as chief of staff in t