NOEL KING, HOST: 2017 was a great year for Latino popular culture and the arts. There was the hit song Despacito by Puerto Ricans Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, DESPACITO) LUIS FONSI AND DADDY YANKEE: (Singing) Para que te acuerdes

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

I'm John Berman, in for Anderson Cooper. Welcome to the 360 podcast. Colorado's experiment in legalizing pot. How was working so far? Also, from Antarctica, the rescue on ice. Let's get started. It's been a couple of days of legal recreational pot se

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英语商业新闻-一名妇女从烟草公司获得236亿美元赔偿 A court in the USA has ordered the tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds to pay a woman $23.6 billion in damages. Cynthia Robinson filed a lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds in 2008 and fought f

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BlackBerry is one of the worlds leading smart phone and e-mail devices. It currently enjoys a 20% market share of mobile phone sales, but that is under pressure from Apples iPhone and similar phones. The BlackBerry is developed by the Canadian IT com

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Somalis, Yemenis Face US Prosecution for Khat Khat is chewed in social settings around the Arabian Peninsula and Horn of Africa. It is legal in Somalia and Yemen, and in Britain and the Netherlands, but not in the United States. Khat's green leaves a

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Hemp is a strong, cane-like plant known throughout the world for its durability and versatility. In the US, however, the hemp industry and supporters struggle. The US government worries that citizens might figure out a way to turn durable hemp into i

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Getting started this Monday, it's considered one of the most dangerous drugs in the world. It factors in heavily to the heroin epidemic we've reported on in the U.S. But it's also blamed for deaths in Europe, Africa, and Australia. Fentanyl is a manm

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A: 大家好! 我是王怡茹欢迎来到... B:欢迎来到美语训练班!我是Kat, 我来介绍一下节目内容。今天... A: Kat! Why did you steal my line? 你怎么抢我台词啊? B: Oops!被你发现了。 A: 行吧,你要是愿意,就

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As Robert Palmer sang in the mid 80s, You might as well face it, youre addicted to love. While that may or may not be true depending on who you are, its no secret that addiction is a common phenomenon. 80年代中期的罗伯特帕尔默曾经唱道:

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April 22 is a very important holiday. It's National Jelly Bean Day. Anyone who loves these delicious, flavoursome, colourful little sweets should treat themselves on this day. They should also check and make sure their family and friends are jelly be

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放开我 Release Me Release Me是瑞典女歌手Agnes Carlsson推出的首支国际单曲,同时也作为她第三张个人大碟《Dance Love Pop》中的第二首主打单曲。Release Me于2008年10月24日在瑞典各大电台播放,在2009年

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have some insight this morning into just how much time kids are spending with their eyes locked on the screen of a mobile device. We're not talking about teenagers. The nonprofit Common Sense Media studied children under 8, in

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: For the millions of Americans addicted to opioids like heroin and prescription painkillers, some of the most effective treatments are medications. But addiction treatment is also a business, and an investigation by NPR and Side E

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Research for new painkiller finds inspiration in chili peppers Naomi Seck | Washington, DC 04 May 2010 Inspired by chili peppers, researchers are working toward a painkiller that could stop the brain from registering the presence of pain. Related Lin

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Wendi: OK, Rina, I'd like you to tell me about getting your first tattoo. Rina: When I got my first tattoo I was 22 years old and it was supposed to be a very small, maybe one or two hour piece and it's true what they say. They're very addictive beca

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The World Health Organization calls tobacco the leading cause of preventable death in the world. In December, the WHO launched a campaign against cigarette smoking in Africa, saying a rapidly growing population is creating larger and more accessible

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Victory for the lawyers who took on the big US tobacco companies and won has whet their appetite for more. Now they are challenging the food industry. About ten years ago, Don Barrett and his colleagues forced the tobacco companies to admit they knew

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Is lip balm addictive? That's the question Yael and Don discuss on this Moment of Science. Y: I am a lip balm addict. Sometimes I catch myself applying some of this stuff just ten minutes or so after applying it the last time. I don't even know I'm d

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Jennifer: Hello and welcome to Authentic Real English from BBC Learning English. My name is Jennifer and Li is with me here in the studio. Li: 大家好,我是杨莉。So what have you been doing this morning, Jen? Jennifer: Well, I've been playing

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: We now know that many of the major social media companies hire individuals called attention engineers who borrow principles from Las Vegas casino gambling, among other places, to try to make thes

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