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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Time now for a story that forces you to suspend reality - but it's worth it. The story is about a secret Cold War laboratory. A young woman works there. She's one of the janitors who cleans up after the experiments. She can't tal

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The serious radiation leaks at Japan's damaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant have reawakened public fears about radiation sickness. But what if there were a drug that could not only protect people from dangerous levels of radiation exposure b

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By Meredith Buel Washington 23 March 2006 The White House recently released a new national security strategy that reaffirms President Bush's doctrine of preemptive war, but says diplomacy is the stron

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At 75, New Deal's 'Green Towns' Endure In an effort to pull the United States out of the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelts so-called New Deal administration created a bevy of government agencies designed to help Americans r

美国国家公共电台 NPR Counting The Heavy Cost Of Care In The Age Of Opioids

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The declaration of an opioid emergency by President Trump has put the focus on the need for treatment. And now some communities are asking who will pay. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on the rising costs of treating the epidemic. A

美国国家公共电台 NPR New Biography Features Recipes Of Famed Chef And Cookbook Author Paula Wolfert

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: We have a new biography to talk about - a biography with recipes. It's the story of Paula Wolfert. Wolfert lived in Marrakesh for a time and wrote the first major American cookbook from there. It's called Couscous And Other Go

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All this week we're taking a look at the growing significance of freelance work in our economy. Some 32 million Americans now rely on freelance or contract work for their primary income. That's according to an NPR/Marist Poll rel

美国国家公共电台 NPR Anna Deavere Smith Brings One-Woman Play 'Notes From The Field' To HBO

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you are a television fan, then you might know Anna Deavere Smith from her roles as the hippie grandmother on Black-ish, the hospital administrator in Nurse Jackie and the national security adviser on The West Wing. But she's a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Surgeon General Urges More Americans To Carry Opioid Antidote

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The opioid crisis continues to ravage many communities in the U.S., so much so that the U.S. surgeon general says Americans should be as prepared to handle an opioids overdose as they would be to administer CPR. Today, the surgeo

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump has reversed his position on NATO. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I said it was obsolete. It's no longer obsolete. GREENE: He cited efforts by the Alliance to Combat Terrorism as the reas

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Think back to your college days, the good old days when life was easy. Stay up all night partying or even studying? No problem. Eat pizza every night and plow through entire bags of potato chips at one sitting. Hey, no sweat. You were a lean, mean, a

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And finally, let's take a look at how a little white lie is helping a little girl change her eating habits for the better. Someone using the name Mo Yizhi posted online that her nine-year old sister doesnt like eating vegetables. On Monday, the littl

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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