It is Friday morning which means it's time again for StoryCorps, in cities across this country the project records interviews between everyday people and today, we hear from Stacy Cooper and Karen Smith. Stacy Cooper was on her own in 1999 when she w

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African Americans Celebrate Kwanzaa 美国非洲裔社区庆宽扎节 奥巴马夫妇致祝福 LOS ANGELES The seven-day festival of Kwanzaa will begin December 26. It is a time when African Americans highlight their heritage. Maulana Karenga, a blac

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I believe in the power of love; I believe that the generation of young people.... I believe it deeply and sincerely; I believe in the importance of passing this knowledge on... I believe that everyone wants to love and be loved; All these add up to

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On May 25th, my aunt Ellie Lyden in Ireland turns 100. I say my aunt, and she is an aunt to me, but she's not really my aunt. When I went back with my grandfather to his ancestral village of Clifden, Ireland in 1986, he was eager to search for his re

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More than 1 billion people count Mandarin as their native language. These sheer numerical dominance plus the fact that China has the world's fastest growing economy has made Mandarin Chinese attractive as a foreign language for more American student

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It's Day to Day from NPR news, I am Alex Chadwick. In basketball, the NBA's second-round playoffs are underway. The defending champion Detroit Pistons, playing at home, easily beat the Indiana Pacers last night 96 to 81. The Pistons and the Pacers

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Alex Chadwick: From NPR News, it is Day to Day. The wonders of modern medicine often do cost us a little something in personal dignity. Think of this word, colonoscopy , if you haven't had the occasion to sample the procedure yet, you will know what

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From NPR News, this is All Things Considered, I am Melissa Block, and I'm Michele Norris. The White House says it's updating its national space policy to meet changing threats. The New York Times reported today that the new policy to be issued as a

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Wolves have been cast as villains in stories -- almost since there have been stories. Jesus warned against them in the Bible; Little Red Riding Hood was tormented by one. They've been favorite symbols of evil from Aesop to Prokofieff. A new document

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Over the weekend, the University of Mississippi rededicated the home of Nobel Prize novelist William Faulkner following a 1.3-million-dollar restoration. Faulkner bought the antebellum house in 1930 and named it Rowan Oak after the qualities of the

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates is explaining his company's position on gay rights legislation. The company has been attacked over its actions on lack of them on a proposal to ban discrimination/ against homosexuals. The bill was before legislature in

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Madeleine Brand: Back now with Day To Day. There will be no formal red light district on the Internet. The group that oversees how Internet addresses are assigned has rejected giving porn websites a .xxx suffix. An unlikely coalition of some adult w

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Renee Montagne: This is Morning Edition from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne. John Ydstie: And I'm John Ydstie. In Your Health this morning, two stories on medical report cards and how people are using them. We look first at efforts to rank hospitals a

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Renee Montagne: This is Morning Edition from NPR News, I'm Renee Montagne. John Ydstie: And I'm John Ydstie. A new study in the Journal of the America Medical Association comes to a conclusion that has surprised even the researchers who conducted it

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Don Gonyea: John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, diplomat, prolific author, Harvard professor, and iconoclast , died yesterday in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 97 years old, born in Canada to a farming family, Galbraith became the country's leading

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Iran Nuclear Talks Will Resume in May With Significant Gaps' 五月伊朗核问题会谈各方分歧巨大 LONDON Negotiators from Iran and the so-called P5+1 - the United States, Russia, China, Britain, and France, plus Germany - wrapped up a round

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C: The Day of the Dead has arrived All Souls Day and All Saints Day! A: Your neighbor is crazy. Why is he screaming that? B: Because today is the first of November the Day of the Dead A: Oh, thats right. B: This is a very special day among many cultu

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By Scott Stearns White House 05 May 2007 President Bush and congressional Democrats are negotiating new funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq after the president vetoed a measure earlier this week because it included a timetable for a troop wi

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