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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the 2012 best-selling novel Me Before You, an idealistic, young English woman named Louisa Clark becomes the caretaker of a wealthy businessman left paralyzed from a motorcycle accident. They fall in love. Then tragedy s

美国国家公共电台 NPR U.S. Travel Industry Worries As International Visits Decline

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: More people around the world are traveling for vacation and for business, but fewer are coming to the United States. New data released by the U.S. Travel Association shows that in the first seven months of 2017, there's bee

美国国家公共电台 NPR At One NASA Lab, Art And Science Share The Same Orbit

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: At NPR, our science reporters try to translate big ideas into less nerdy concepts for our audiences. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories, a team of visual strategists is doing something similar. They're creating art proje

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Thank You, America': A Crowdsourced Holiday Poem That's A Blessing To Read

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A few weeks ago, we asked you to share with us what it is about America that you're most thankful for. And you did share. We received over a thousand responses, all very thoughtful, wholehearted, earnest. We gave your responses t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Democrats Won The Suburbs. Now They Have To Hold Them

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Democrats may end up flipping 40 House seats this year. Many of that party's wins in the midterms were in the suburbs. Districts around Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston and Oklahoma City all went blue. So how's that going to transla

美国国家公共电台 NPR Democrats Built A Small-Donor Money Machine. Now, Republicans Want Their Own

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Small donors are one of the big reasons Democrats now control the House of Representatives. The independent digital fundraising platform called ActBlue helped make that happen. Now Republicans want their own version of ActBlue. H

美国国家公共电台 NPR Muslims Are Having A Hollywood Moment

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Something is changing on American television and online streaming services. There are more Muslim characters and more nuanced portrayals of Muslim communities. NPR's Leila Fadel starts this story on set in Los Angeles. LEILA FADE

美国国家公共电台 NPR Doctors Test Bacterial Smear After Cesarean Sections To Bolster Babies' Microbiomes

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some new parents have started giving their newborns what's being called a bacterial baptism. The idea is to try to help their babies develop healthy microbiomes, the collection of friendly bacteria that inhabit everyone's bodies.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Millennials Are No More Liberal On Gun Control Than Elders, Polls Show

SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: In the days since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., there have been calls for more gun control from high school students around the country. There's a lot of polling that indicates young peo

美国国家公共电台 NPR Pediatricians Call For Universal Depression Screening For Teens

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: As any parent of a teenager can tell you, teens can be moody at the best of times. So how can you tell if something more serious is actually going on? The American Academy of Pediatrics is today releasing new guidelines aimed at

美国国家公共电台 NPR China Proposes Lifting Presidential Term Limit

SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: And now to China, where a proposal from the country's ruling party could have implications for years to come. Today, the Communist Party proposed scrapping term limits for presidents. That would mean China's leader Xi Jinping ma

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Young Karl Marx' Looks Inside The Mind Of A Revolutionary

'The Young Karl Marx' Looks Inside The Mind Of A Revolutionary SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: We're now going to discuss a movie about a 19th century revolutionary who'd probably have plenty to say about current times. The Young Karl Marx is a new biopic from

美国国家公共电台 NPR David Bazan Resurrects Pedro The Lion After More Than A Decade

SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: The indie rock band Pedro the Lion is known for its sometimes dreary lyrics that take on internal conflict often filled with religious angst. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, THE FLEECING) PEDRO THE LION: (Singing) Who shall I blame for this

美国国家公共电台 NPR Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood On The Music Of 'Phantom Thread'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Lots of kids dream of growing up to be rock stars, and the British musician Jonny Greenwood was no different. JONNY GREENWOOD: I was obsessed with bands and would always listen to my favorite records with the goal of wondering -

美国国家公共电台 NPR 2020 Census Will Ask White People More About Their Ethnicities

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Census Bureau is making another change to how it asks about race in the U.S. This time it's affecting Caucasians. Those who mark the box for white on the 2020 census will be asked to give more information about what that mean

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Syrian Teen, Forced To Flee 'A Land Of Permanent Goodbyes'

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Atia Abawi is used to looking at war as a journalist. She covered war in Iraq and in Afghanistan, which is the country her own family fled in the early 1980s. But when the stories she wanted to tell pushed up against the limits o

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hanging With '2 Dope Queens' As Popular Podcast Gets HBO Special

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: 2 Dope Queens is a popular podcast that is coming to HBO as a TV show. It's a program where the hosts riff on pop culture, gender, race and comedy. Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson recently caught up with our TV critic, Eric De

美国国家公共电台 NPR Blood Avocados No More: Mexican Farm Town Says It's Kicked Out Cartels

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: On Sunday, when you're sitting around the TV watching the Super Bowl, when you reach for the chips and guacamole, think about this. Americans will eat 104 million pounds of avocados on that day alone. The average American now eat

美国国家公共电台 NPR Visitors Slowly Returning To Virgin Islands After Hurricanes' Destruction

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit the U.S. Virgin Islands so hard. Let's travel there now with NPR's Greg Allen to see how people on the islands are doing. GREG ALLEN, BYLINE: At the beach in Magens Bay, the party is back on. (SOUNDBI

美国国家公共电台 NPR As GOP Mulls 2018 Agenda, Trump Asks Lawmakers To 'Give A Little' On Immigration

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Republican lawmakers were on their way to a retreat yesterday when the train that carried them crashed. The Amtrak train struck a garbage truck. No lawmakers were hurt, but one person was killed. And that was the prelude to a mee