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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: All this month, we've been hearing about the lives of teenage girls from around the world. Some of them say they dream of coming to the United States, where they believe their lives would be better. Our next story is about a girl w

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Members of Congress and a number of governors have said they oppose the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States. And they oppose President Obama's plan to welcome 10,000 Syrians. In Canada, the newly elected liberal go

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Got Back Pain? Try Yoga Or Massage Before Reaching For The Pills

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Lower back pain - yeah, you know who you are. You're not alone, though. Most of us will suffer from lower back pain sometime in our lives. And when it happens, many of us will reach for pain medication. But new guidelines from th

美国国家公共电台 NPR How One Boy's Fight With Epilepsy Led To The First Marijuana-Derived Pharmaceutical

NOEL KING, HOST: The first medication derived from marijuana could be in pharmacies as early as this fall. The FDA recently approved it to treat two rare types of epilepsy. KQED's Lesley McClurg has the story of one family's quest to get this drug. L

美国国家公共电台 NPR Meet The Internet Researchers Unmasking Russian Assassins

AILSA CHANG, HOST: It turns out that the two Russian operatives behind the U.K. nerve agent attacks had their identities blown by a team of Internet researchers. NPR's Geoff Brumfiel has this story of who they are and how they did it. GEOFF BRUMFIEL,

【英语语言学习】系统漏洞

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Millions of computers and networks are at risk after a security flaw, which is being called Shellshock, was found last week. Now this is not a virus. It's a bug - a mistake in code. And it turns out, it's actually been around

【英语语言学习】节目收听率

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: NBC has had a terrible ratings period, but the news here is not so much the network's decline as the primary language spoken on a network that passed NBC. NPR's Mandalit del Barco has more on TV's February sweeps, starting with t

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: The days after the end of Daylight Saving Time can be a bit confusing. Your cell phone probably adjusted automatically, but maybe the clock in your car did not leading to brief panic. Am I late for work? In the first of an occasio

【英语语言学习】犹太文化

LYNN NEARY, HOST: Today, 27 European countries are marking what is called the European Day of Jewish Culture. The initiative is aimed at opening the doors of Jewish communities, heritage cites and culture to the non-Jewish world and also to deepen Je

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Panama Canal was built almost 100 years ago and is now undergoing a major expansion. The waterway will be widened, making room for bigger ships, and that means more cargo and more revenue. The expansion promises big rewards f

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Three hundred years ago, the rock of Gibraltar, rising dramatically out of the Spanish coastline, became a British territory. This has never sat well with Spain. And now recent disputes over the territorial waters around Gibralta

【英语语言学习】躺着的雕像

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a new religious statue in the town of Davidson, N.C., that's unlike anything you might see in a church. It depicts Jesus as a vagrant sleeping on a park bench. A few residents have complained, but most find the statue spi

【英语语言学习】万维网

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: These days, there's very little you can't find on the World Wide Web, but we have a story now about one important piece of the Web's own history that has gone missing, and no search engine will find it. NPR's Geoff Brumfiel repor

【英语语言学习】社交网络现状

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: You know, as I host this program, I'm on a social media platform - Twitter, as a matter of fact. There is no group that takes that new social media platform more than teenagers, and that's exactly what worries a lot of parents. Dan

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This is also a landmark date in Tunisia, where the Arab Spring began. Three years ago today, Tunisia's long-time ruler stepped down in the face of a popular uprising. His departure sparked both celebration and uncertainty. A nati

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some other news. Ecuador has abandoned what seemed like a creative way to preserve the environment. The government proposed not to drill for oil in some untouched parts of the Amazon rainforest, but in exchange for its restraint

【英语语言学习】为什么有的人会超重

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Many young scientists are having a difficult time getting their careers going, and the reason is often funding - a lack of it. The National Institutes of Health agrees this is a problem, so it established the New Innovator Award.