Now, tell us, Grandfather, cried Henry. We ran all the way home from school. Tell us! shouted Benny, throwing himself down on the grass beside the dog. School is out for the whole summer, and Watch wants to know. Violet and I want to know, too, said

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Scary Rides, Spooky House Return to NY's Coney Island NEW YORK In October, 2012, when Hurricane Sandy slammed the east coast of the United States with powerful winds, sea surges and flooding, it threatened the lives and livelihoods of thousands who l

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Coney Island Amusement Park Still Up and Spinning Coney Island is only half a kilometer wide, but this playground by the sea has been offering giant-sized fun ever since the early 19th century. It's been a Big Apple summertime destination, beginning

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Small Island States Tackle Climate Change Experts from more than 50 small island countries are meeting this week in Mauritius to discuss climate change and food security. The so-called Small Island Developing States are home to more than 50 million p

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Documentaries explore lives in a warmer world Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 14 April 2010 This man ponders his fate as he looks out to Huene, an island in the Carteret bisected by the sea 20 years ago. Related Links Pulitzer Center for Crisis Repo

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A massive ice island has broken off the coast of Greenland. Heat waves, droughts and floods have been wreaking havoc across the globe in recent weeks, and now scientists say a 250 square kilometer island of ice has broken off from a glacier in Greenl

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March 28 marks the 30th anniversary of the United States' worst nuclear accident. The reactor at Three Mile Island in central Pennsylvania experienced a near meltdown. Although not nearly the tragedy of Chernobyl in Ukraine, or Fukushima in Japan, Th

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Museum Exhibit Expands Upon Ellis Island's Story ELLIS ISLAND, NEW YORK Ellis Island in New York Harbor is a major tourist attraction in the area, second only to the Statue of Liberty. Some people come to the island to find information about their an

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's been two weeks since the Oscars, time enough for the film industry to reset from prestige mode to blockbuster. This week, Hollywood's favorite giant ape returns to the screen in Kong: Skull Island, a film that left critic Bo

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Hurricane Maria wiped out Puerto Rico's electrical grid in September. And as we've been reporting, getting the lights back on has been a slow and uneven process. On the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, residents face the prospect of

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What's In That Coffee Cabinet? A Delicious Taste Of Rhode Island History play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0002:27repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update yo

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Rhode Island is about to offer bargain prices on real estate. Of course there is a catch, as Stephanie Leydon from member station WGBH reports, this deal is only for farmers. STEPHANIE LEYDON, BYLINE: Ben Torpey's kneeling in the d

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

NOEL KING, HOST: Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani fled Iran fearing for his safety. He wrote for a pro-Kurdish magazine that was raided by the Iranian military. So he went to Indonesia, and from there, he got on a boat to Australia. He wan

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary strait: a narrow waterway The International Date Line: an imaginary line in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where the time zones on either side are 24 hours apart border: a line that defines the ownership of a region time zon

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 Facts-事实

在没有看到Adam Green的照片时,他的嗓音让我觉得这个人没有40至少也30好几了,磁性的声音尽显成熟男性魅力。可是他的年龄和样貌却让我大跌眼镜(没有贬意),1981生,满头乱发,表情呆滞,那双大眼睛里透出些许灵气。让我不禁想到另一位音乐人en Kweller。提到Adam Gr

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Mohsen: I need to get off this island. Im getting island fever. Ella: Weve only been here two days. Give it a chance. Were here to enjoy a slower pace of life, remember? Mohsen: When you said we were going on an island vacation, I didnt know wed be s

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A tide of plastic waste is contaminating the oceans. And in a congressional hearing, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse named major culprits. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) SHELDON WHITEHOUSE: Over 50 percent of the plastic waste in t

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