LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: It's 1992. Your hair is gelled up, you're sporting high-tops, maybe still listening to Run-DMC on cassette, and that's the setting for a new coming-of-age novel that's also a look at race in America. The book, titled Green, follo

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

A: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is linguist Geoff Nunberg. He's been listening to how Americans debate issues, and there's a particular word he often finds they invoke: sensitivities. GEOFF NUNBERG: It'

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By Challiss McDonough Beirut 30 November 2006 In the aftermath of yet another political assassination in Lebanon, analysts say political and sectarian tensions are at the highest point since the end of the civil war more than 15 years ago. But despi

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 31 August 2006 Political tensions in Thailand have heightened after police said they broke up a bomb plot aimed at Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Polls point to growing skepticism over the allegations - a sign of Mr. Thaksi

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NATO Airstrikes on Libya Intensify NATO planes stepped up their bombing of Tripoli early Tuesday. A series of powerful explosions shook the Libyan capital Tripoli overnight after NATO warplanes carried out close to 20 bombing raids. Witnesses say man

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Polling centers across much of Afghanistan are due to open Saturday for the country's latest round of elections. Nearly 2,500 candidates are vying for 249 seats in Afghanistan's lower house of parliament, or wolesi jirga. Expectations for the vote ar

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You can be amazing 你可以变得很了不起 You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug 你可以将短语转换成为一件武器或者一种药物 You can be the outcast 你可会成为被弃之于不顾的 Or be the backlash of somebody's lac

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By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 07 November 2006 A Vietnamese court is to try seven people, including three U.S. citizens, on charges of terrorism. The accused allegedly plotted to hijack Vietnamese radio frequencies to call for an anti-government uprising

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 20 June 2006 Tensions are rising in the Horn of Africa amid unconfirmed reports that several-hundred Ethiopian troops have crossed the border into Somalia to confront an Islamic group that controls large areas of southern Somal

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Madagascar's newly installed President Andry Rajoelina held his first cabinet meeting and met with the diplomatic corps. It was all part of an attempt to ease the worries of a general population that is traumatized by months of civil unrest. Newly-i

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今天我们要学的词是sensitive。 Sensitive, 是敏感的意思。A sensitive topic, 就是敏感的话题。 Employment experts warn job seekers not to give out sensitive personal information when applying for positions online, 就业问题专家

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Tourism is bringing economic benefits to the Laotian city of Luang Prabang, the spiritual, religious and cultural capital of Laos for centuries. But with commercialism on the rise, some are worried the town is losing its identity. Turists gather out

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 10 January 2007 The Basque separatist group ETA is warning it may launch new terrorist attacks, following its December 30 bombing at a Madrid airport that killed two people. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports the blast has shattere

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 01 March 2006 watch Assessment report How secure is the United States? Who and what threaten Americans, their allies and interests? These and other security-related qu

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There has been wide-ranging debate in Washington and the Middle East recently regarding the possibility of a military attack on Iran's nuclear program. The war of words between the United States, Israel and Iran has escalated and has military and po

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By Meredith Buel Washington 09 June 2006 The U.S. military says it has conducted dozens of raids in Iraq following the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. A military spokesman says the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq initially survived an air

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 11 January 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Iraq will have to demonstrate its ability to deliver more troops to Baghdad and limit the political influence of militia factions before most of the additional U.S. troop

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By Margaret Besheer Nahr El-Bared, Lebanon 02 June 2007 For a second day, the Lebanese Army intensified its shelling of Islamist militants holed-up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. The army is trying to bring the two week-long stand

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By Jim Malone Washington 19 July 2006 The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the Bush administration's plans to use military tribunals to try suspected terrorists is the latest example of how one branch of the U.S. government can check

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By Franz Wild Diouzon, Ivory Coast 20 May 2006 Bangladeshi soldiers at the entrance to the zone of confidence In Ivory Coast, a recent attack in a village along the volatile dividing line between rebe

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