You know you know What s your history how did Richard and his fellow native activist occupy Alcatraz Island with the goal to bring attention to their cause when we looked at that it was like breaking another treaty you know right in front of our face in this day in ancient and we hear about his untimely death at the 30 I became consciously aware of who I was as a person because of him this coming up on nothing to say. Stay with us nothing much less. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m nor Rahm President Trump made a brief unannounced visit to Afghanistan where he spent Thanksgiving with the troops getting a rousing welcome from a crowded bhagam airfield N.P.R. s Frank or Downey as reports speaking in front of a large u.s. Flag 2 armored combat you know the president told u.s. Forces there was no where he d rather spend Thanksgiving and that the American public was proud we flew 8331 miles to be here tonight for one simple reason to tell you in person that. This Thanksgiving is a s
Way always but to feel this way even just once or twice in a life time is a form of bliss today s poem is Arrow s the contagion by any Kim It teaches me to see the potential for passionate attachment to things like the evening sky and ant frozen and a jar of honey or the sight of another person in thrall to a beautiful idea it makes me want to take better stock of the world around me it makes me want to send more love and more joy into the world for others to sense it fills me with a mischievous excitement to think that love is something we can contract from others something we can choose not to inoculate ourselves against arrows the contagion by any can soft as a clawed painting the yellow sky tonight trees in the parking lot still thick though the air yes has an edge the honey was solid in the jar when I opened it this morning found a single ant frozen in the dunes stunned by sweetness. Can you really die of sweetness hard to say yes though I want to looking up at these clouds that
I don t have a reputation for doing amazing ready meals and I think they are really good and they all say what they do do is very high quality at a price of it it s a high cost generally that all the supermarkets but you all get a pretty top stuff. Changing weather and the impacts of climate change mean serious problems for hedgehogs this year according to a nothing to rescue center Deborah corn runs hedge pigs in Beeston and says milder autumn and winter months allow hedgehogs to have litters of Hogland too close to the cold weather she says that means they sometimes can t survive hibernation hedgehogs around and are preaching and managing to have more than one letter sometimes 2 or 3 letters in one year because they re having them later to helpless and not table to eat enough and those are not able to hyphenate when that cold weather does eventually turn. On the weather some sunshine this afternoon but with a threat of rain highs about 8 Celsius cloudy of a night with shower rain no
So far from the test in the count of rebel of a comparative games that we re playing 3 out of the if it is the case that tests are driven by your socio economic circumstances your family background we have any quality then we ll always have these relative gaps but if it is the case that children like myself like Professor Kennedy who came from a certain background you know we both were solidly middle class but I came from schools where they were not as strong our tests are after 2 tests were not as great but we had a lot of potential in people invested in the US and they kept us on the trajectory of higher mobility and then we were able to thrive and I m more interested in that experience I m actually tired of the narrative of testing because we know the test are innately not fair and yet we keep using it so my thing is how do we keep kids sustained on the trajectory of mobility and overall sustained good well being well you know hopefully through the rest of our of our series this mo
Stocks plunged today for a 2nd straight day the downturn on Wall Street following the announcement by President Trump be plans to impose new trade tariffs against China the Dow was down 280 points today you re listening to n.p.r. Puerto Rico s government remains in crisis with the nominee to succeed outgoing governor Ricardo Rowe sayo headed towards a disputed and uncertain confirmation vote for seo has agreed to step down tomorrow following public protests over a corporation scandal rocking the government of the u.s. Territory but it s not clear who will be in place to take over in addition to anger over profane chats between the young outgoing governor and his staff there s also unhappiness in Puerto Rico over the handling of back to back hurricanes that killed some 3000 people in 2017 who the rebels in Yemen say they fired a ballistic missile against a military parade in the port city of Aden Meanwhile corded suicide bombing separately struck a police station in that city N.P.R. s