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What Japanese Americans Lost During WWII Internment
In 1942, shortly after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt ordered the relocation of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention centers. The order grew out of fear that they could become spies. Around 117,000 citizens...
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Helping Teens Budget for the Future
Budgeting, paying bills, and managing bank accounts are all important personal finance skills. One high school in Vermont gave students an opportunity to learn about the world of personal finance in a unique way. A local non-profit group...
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Edible Art Garden
When a vacant lot in Sacramento was up for sale, one neighbor had an idea for what it could become. She envisioned an urban farm, so she bought the lot and invited a local nonprofit group to help turn it into an “edible art garden” after...
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No Easy Access: Food Deserts in D.C. | Let's Talk | NPR
Fast food joints and convenience stores are often the only options for those who live in food deserts, even in Washington, D.C. WAMU highlights one resident’s journey to buy fresh, healthy food. • Read or listen "Where Eating Healthy...
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Dancing To K-pop Is Harder Than It Looks | Elise Tries | NPR
Korean pop, or K-pop, was once limited to East Asia and some of the Korean diaspora around the world. But these days, K-pop and its signature in sync, highly-choreographed dance moves are familiar the world over. Dancing in the K-pop...
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High School Sports Resume
After being canceled during the pandemic, many high school sports are starting up again. This audio story focuses on a high school girls’ tennis team in California where athletes are both nervous and excited to resume play. Listen to...
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Gravity and the Curveball
Throwing a curveball is one of the most difficult pitches in baseball. Bill Lee, a former pitcher for the Red Sox, explains how important it is to consider physics when trying to throw a curveball. Listen to learn how objects travel...
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School Vouchers | Let's Talk | NPR
School vouchers are a controversial issue. NPR Ed correspondent Cory Turner offers a primer on how private school vouchers work and the arguments for and against them. • Read "The Promise and Peril of School Vouchers" at...
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Chop Suey With Beans And Rice: A Mexican-Chinese-American fusion. I NPR Hot Pot
Joaquin "Jocko" Fajardo makes a spicy Mexican version of chop suey, a classic Chinese-American dish. He tells us how his great-aunt learned to make the dish from the Asian employees at her Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles....
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A Short History Of Humans And Germs: Humans Get A Clue | Goats & Soda | NPR
For most of human history, we had a lot of bad ideas about how we were getting sick: angry gods, misaligned planets, stinky fumes. We also had plenty of bad ideas about how to prevent it, like bloodletting, large holes in the head and...
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Billy Collins on How to Write Poetry
If you aren't a poet but want to get started, how would you do that?
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Billy Collins on Writing Poetry No One Sees
How often do you write poems that are never published or seen publicly?
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One 13-Year-Old Boy's Struggle With An Eating Disorder
Anorexia and bulimia, eating disorders once thought to affect only girls and women, affect a growing number of boys and men. Thirteen-year-old Jonathan Noyes is one of an estimated 10 million American males who struggle with eating...
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Texas Wind Power
Get the full story at npr.org: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16658695 Ex-farmer Cliff Ethridge is giving new life to a dying town through the power of wind.
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A Few Things to Know About American Sign Language | NPR
Here are a few things to know about American Sign Language from five people who use it every day. “One thing is, daily, we see that hearing people think that ASL isn’t a language,” D.T. Bruno said in an interview for this video,” but the...