ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Some of this year's best-selling writers are better known for their way with tools than words. They are stars on HGTV, the network that shows us how to buy, sell and fix up our homes. NPR's Lynn Neary looks at their transition from

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

Adopting a Child Scott: Hi, I thought Id stop by to pick up those chairs I wanted to borrow. Roberta: Oh, sure. Here they are. Scott: What are you doing? Roberta: Im looking through the material we got on adoption. Scott: Are you and Robert thinking

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Scott:I think we do. I mean, I think that's why we did $34S billion last year. I think from a customer standpoint,we do get that credit. We don't get that credit from government or insititutions.But how else could you have withstand this onslaught? I

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Jessie heard the locker room door shut, and she heard footsteps in the entryway. She could see someones shadow against the wall. Jessie waited to see who would come around the corner. A moment later, Cathy came in. When she saw Jessie sitting there,

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(113) / 评论(0) 分类 80 The Hockey Mystery

The Aldens spent the next two days searching everywhere in Greenfield for Miss Newcombe. On Monday, as everyone walked to the Greenfield Animal Shelter to help out and pick up supplies, Violet said, Maybe she just didnt come back from the capital aft

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NASA to Study Astronaut on Yearlong Mission in Space NASA研究履行长期航天任务的宇航员 An American astronaut is beginning a year long trip in space. 一名美国宇航员开始了长达一年的太空旅行。 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly

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Scott, who should be fired? 斯科特,谁应该被炒? I'm not the one to throw anybody under the bus. I really don't want to do it. 我不是那种落井下石的人。 Go ahead. 继续,继续。 I really don't want to it.You're forcing me to do

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: And a new study from a group called Common Sense Media reports that teenagers now spend up to nine hours a day on various screen devices. That's probably more than they sleep. We're joined by Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of Common S

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Scott's girlfriend loved pretty dresses. Her favorite store was having a big sale. Scott wanted to surprise her. He went to the sale to buy her a lot of new dresses. The sale was extremely crowded. He waited one hour just to get inside the store! Sco

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Faster! shouted six-year-old Benny Alden. Ill race you to the bottom of the hill! He leaned over and started pedaling his bicycle as fast as his short legs could go down the long hill at the end of Wildwood Road. Hey, said Jessie, Bennys older sister

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This is AP news minute. 1. House republicans have nominated representative Paul Ryan to became the next speaker. Ryan won on secret ballot of the house's 247 republicans. The full house is expected to elect Ryan as speaker on Thursday. 2. A deputy wh

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Iran Ties Nuclear Deal to Ending Sanctions 伊朗称必须取消制裁才会签署核协议 Irans highest leader has demanded that international economic sanctions against his country end as soon as a final agreement is reached on Iran's nuclear deve

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: One of the most horrifying events in a terrible war, the My Lai Massacre, occurred 50 years ago yesterday in Vietnam. The story never would have gotten out had it not been for a U.S. soldier who stood up against his own troops and

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: This year, another inventor, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, would have turned 200 years old. If you're wondering who, he's the Frenchman who beat Thomas Edison in the first recording of sound. Edison's New Jersey lab recently

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Police in South Carolina have released dashcam video of the traffic stop in North Charleston that ended in the shooting death of Walter Scott. The video shows the initial calm exchange between Scott and Officer Michael Slager, then Scott running away

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A 9-year-old boy is saved after his mother leaves him in a locked airless apartment for a week - no food, water or light. He breaks out through a window, and police find him weak and bleeding. They find his mother passed out in a c

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NOEL KING, HOST: President Trump has boasted about the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal. And indeed, some analysts are cautiously optimistic about it. But for many Americans from farmers to factory workers, the biggest news is not what's in the deal

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: When you drive around LA, it's impossible to miss the problem of homelessness. LA County has about 53,000 homeless people. That's more than any other metropolitan area in the U.S. besides New York City. ANNA SCOTT, BYLINE: So you s

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The restaurant was on West 31st Street. They sat down at an outside table. They hadn't eaten there before. A waiter came. He brought two menus. He left. They looked at the menus. Scott saw dried-out food on his menu. He frowned. The waiter returned w

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Senator Cory Booker is the latest Democrat to make it official. (SOUNDBITE OF POLITICAL AD, TOGETHER, AMERICA, WE WILL RISE) CORY BOOKER: Together we will channel our common pain back into our common purpose. Together, America, w

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