Rebuilding A Life Shattered By An Earthquake In China
Editor's Note: NPR's Melissa Block was on a reporting trip to southwest China in May 2008 when a massive earthquake hit, leaving some 90,000 dead or missing. Now, as she wraps up her time hosting All...
View Article重塑因地震而破碎的生活
Editor's note: NPR's Melissa Block was on a reporting trip to southwest China in May 2008 when a massive earthquake hit, leaving some 90,000 dead or missing. Now, as she wraps up her time hosting All...
View ArticleMelissa Block Looks Back On More Than 12 Years Hosting 'All Things Considered'
You don't host All Things Considered without having a list of memorable interview moments with musicians, actors and authors.On her last day as host, NPR's Melissa Block takes a look at some of the...
View ArticleIn Divided Belgium, Some Find That Trauma Unites Them
Turn on the radio in Belgium and you get news of the terrorist attacks in French and in Dutch. Belgium is divided into Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia. There's a German-speaking...
View ArticleA Week Later, No Word On When Brussels Will Reopen The Airport
Belgium officials ran a simulation Tuesday at Brussels' Zaventem Airport to figure out if it can at least partially reopen using new security measures demanded by the government.It's been a week since...
View ArticleBelgium Terrorist Attacks Prompt A Renewed Sectarian Debate
Some Belgians say the terrorist attacks have brought the country together, and that's what the country needs. Others says the bombings show the country needs to split, with one part made of...
View ArticleNashville Singer-Songwriter Guy Clark Dies At 74
Guy Clark, one of Nashville's most renowned singer-songwriters, has died at the age of 74. This profile of Clark originally aired on July 23, 2013, on All Things Considered. Copyright 2016 NPR. To see...
View ArticleA Family Engulfed By Heroin Fights To Keep A Son Alive
Here's how I knew I liked Patti Trabosh.It goes back to the very first time I called her out of the blue to ask whether I might profile her family for a story on opioid addiction. The very first words...
View ArticleProtesters Disrupt Planned Brussels Vigil
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View ArticleIn Divided Belgium, Some Find That Trauma Unites Them
Turn on the radio in Belgium and you get news of the terrorist attacks in French and in Dutch. Belgium is divided into Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia. There's a German-speaking...
View ArticleA Week Later, No Word On When Brussels Will Reopen The Airport
Belgium officials ran a simulation Tuesday at Brussels' Zaventem Airport to figure out if it can at least partially reopen using new security measures demanded by the government.It's been a week since...
View ArticleBelgium Terrorist Attacks Prompt A Renewed Sectarian Debate
Some Belgians say the terrorist attacks have brought the country together, and that's what the country needs. Others says the bombings show the country needs to split, with one part made of...
View ArticleNashville Singer-Songwriter Guy Clark Dies At 74
Guy Clark, one of Nashville's most renowned singer-songwriters, has died at the age of 74. This profile of Clark originally aired on July 23, 2013, on All Things Considered. Copyright 2016 NPR. To see...
View Article'Hamilton' Fans Pilgrimage To Founding Father's Once-Forgotten Grave
Tucked amid the tumult of Lower Manhattan's Financial District, right across from a factory-outlet shoe store promising "probably" the lowest prices in the city, you'll find Alexander Hamilton's grave....
View ArticleA Gifted High Jumper Gets Set To Leap Onto The World Stage
It's already been a big year for high jumper Vashti Cunningham, and it could soon get even bigger. In March, the high school senior from Las Vegas set a world junior record and decided to forgo college...
View ArticleFor Heptathlete Sharon Day-Monroe, It's 7 Events With Just One Goal
Sharon Day-Monroe has been to the Olympics twice, in two different events. She's been the U.S. heptathlon champion three times. And she won four consecutive U.S. indoor pentathlon titles.It's a hugely...
View ArticleIn Women's Water Polo, Americans Aim For A Repeat
Mix swimming and basketball with soccer, toss in some wrestling for good measure, and you have a pretty good description of the exciting, fast-paced sport of water polo.The U.S. women's water polo team...
View ArticleThe U.S. Aims To End Medal Drought In Badminton
It is the world's fastest racquet sport, with speeds up to 250 miles per hour off the racquet.And it may be one of the most misunderstood.Badminton — that staple of backyard picnics and summer camp —...
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