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AILSA CHANG, HOST: A hundred years ago, this country entered the first global war, World War I. That ugly, dirty, agonizing conflict cost millions of lives and changed the world. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is observing the centen

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists have discovered that stored blood loses a life-saving gas. This discovery may explain why a great number of people get sick after receiving stored blood. In recent years, experts have wondere

2006年VOA标准英语-Latinos Urge Solution to Immigration Issue

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 31 May 2006 The debate over illegal immigration in the United States has put the spotlight on Hispanics, who make up most of the people who are in the country illegally. Hispanics are also the largest group of legal im

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Hank And Jim' Highlights The Long Friendship Of 2 Hollywood Legends

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the greatest stars of Hollywood's golden years. A new biography describes their 50-year friendship and dedication to their craft. Each was an actor before he became a star, their biograph

美国国家公共电台 NPR Behold: Susan Stamberg's Special Recipe For Caviar Pie

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Now it's time for the last in our series of holiday recipes from our colleagues here at NPR. We've heard about Christmas breads and Turkey tacos and mofongo and also to you, but the person who started it all joins us now. Susan Sta

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Breaking News' Artists Use Mass Media As Their Medium

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The images that often come from breaking news can be dramatic or brutal or upsetting. And that has provided inspiration for art. In Los Angeles, an exhibit at the Getty Center looks at artists' reactions to mass media, what they

美国国家公共电台 NPR With Chemistry And Care, Conservators Keep Masterpieces Looking Their Best

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: That painting you see on the wall of an art museum is the product of the artist and the times in which he or she lived. It is also the result of today, no matter how old it is, a major museum's conservator's work to keep the art

Paul Stamets:蘑菇拯救世界的6种方法

真菌学者Paul Stamets 列出了真菌菌丝可以拯救世界的6种方法：清洁被污染的土地、生产杀虫剂、治疗天花甚至流感....

英文歌曲：世界上另一个我 Everyone else in the world - Stina Nordenstam

You'll have to stand perfectly still You have to close your eyes And when I am finished I don't believe you can go Everyone else in the world Would love me by now Would love me from day one But not you Everyone else in the world Would love me by now

2006年VOA标准英语-Latinos in US May Become Potent Political

By Bill Rodgers Washington, DC 26 April 2006 watch Latino Power report The U.S. Senate is expected to again take up the issue of immigration reform. Some Hispanic immigrant advocacy groups are plannin

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Architecture Of An Asylum' Tracks History Of U.S. Treatment Of Mental Illness

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Ezra Pound, a major American poet, and John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Reagan - both men had something in common - St. Elizabeths Hospital, where those with mental illness were housed. NPR special correspondent Susa

美国国家公共电台 NPR No Kitten Around: Museum Exhibit Celebrates 'Divine Felines'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. I'm going to fess up. I am not a cat person. But NPR's Susan Stamberg is, which is why she leapt at the opportunity to check out a new exhibition at the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery of Asian art. The exhibition is cal

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Flag Still Flies For Jasper Johns

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. I want you to consider these objects - an American flag, a target and a number. Would you ever think to make paintings of them? Well, the American artist Jasper Johns did that. And now six decades of his work are on vie

美国国家公共电台 NPR 3 Photographers Who Captured The Undersides Of Life

NOEL KING, HOST: Photographs taken over the course of 50 years are on view in Los Angeles. Three different photographers captured stunning and shocking and provocative images. And then a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art found connections amo

美国国家公共电台 NPR Mama Stamberg's Relish Faces Its Toughest Critics: NPR Staffers

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美国国家公共电台 NPR After 75 Years, Here's Looking At You, 'Casablanca'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Here in Southern California, Oscars night is almost here. And a beloved, Oscar-winning classic nears 75 years since its premiere. Casablanca, the World War II romance about the fight for love and glory, brought glory to Warner Bro

2006年VOA标准英语-Bush Aide Urges Latinos to Seek Compromise on I

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 July 2006 White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove says President Bush is seeking fair and comprehensive immigration reform, and Tuesday, the White House official reached out to a major Latino organization that i

2007年VOA标准英语-Doctors Change Diagnosis of American Man with T

By Carol Pearson Washington, D.C. 05 July 2007 An American man who traveled internationally with tuberculosis - despite instructions not to - has a new diagnosis and is not as sick as government doctors initially said he was. As VOA's Carol Pearson r

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Eye To I' Exhibition Celebrates Over A Century Of Self-Portraiture

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: At some point in their lives, many artists spend time painting themselves - self-portraits that express who they are at a particular moment. Washington's National Portrait Gallery is showing over 70 such works. Edward Hopper, at

英文流行歌曲：Something Nice - Stina Nordenstam

Something Nice 这首歌来自于Stina Nordenstam的《She Closed Her Eyes》专辑。 Stina的独特气声很容易让人联想到Rickie Lee Jones和Bjouml;rk。整首歌的曲风以Dream Pop（梦幻流行）为主，轻快的旋律，给人置身于