2015년 3월 9일 월요일

Injured Workers Suffer As 'Reforms' Limit Workers' Compensation Benefits Plus 9 More Stories

Your NPR stories for March 4, 2015
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News
Injured Workers Suffer As 'Reforms' Limit Workers' Compensation Benefits
Over the past decade, states have slashed workers' compensation benefits, denying injured workers help when they need it most and shifting the costs of workplace accidents to taxpayers.
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Round 2: Health Care Law Faces The Supreme Court Again
In King v. Burwell, Obamacare's opponents are challenging the ACA again, this time contending that a section of the law doesn't authorize subsidies to make mandated insurance affordable in 34 states.
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Born In 1898: World's Oldest Living Person Celebrates Birthday
Misao Okawa of Japan is now 117. She has reigned as the world's oldest living person since 2013, when Guinness World Records certified that she was 115.
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What's A Patient To Do When Hospital Ratings Disagree?
Many people check up on hospitals before they check in as patients. But there's a catch. A hospital that gets lauded by one group can be panned by another.
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Boston Marathon Bombing Trial Begins For Dzokhar Tsarnaev
Opening statements begin in Boston on Wednesday, in a capital trial that's expected to last several months. It took nearly two months to seat a jury to try the case.
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Music
Rapper Jin Tries To Stretch His '15 Minutes' Of Fame
In 2004, Jin was one of the first Asian-Americans to drop a major label rap album. One controversial song, "Learn Chinese," raised eyebrows. A decade later, he's trying to rephrase the message.
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Watch A Film From Mali: The Day Before The Music Died
The Last Song Before the War presents the glorious sounds of the 2011 Festival in the Desert, held shortly before Islamic extremists took over the region and banned music.
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Latitudes: Stream The Film 'The Last Song Before The War'
Watch a great music documentary that wasn't supposed to be about music. All too quickly, this chronicle of Mali's Festival in the Desert became a memento of vanished joy.
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Debate About French Muslim Identity Plays Out In Hip-Hop
As part of our stories about Muslims in Western Europe, commentator Hisham Aidi, author of the book Rebel Music, talks about how music factors into the cultural differences between French Muslims.
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Music Review: 'Soyo' By Dom La Nena
Dom La Nena is a singer and cellist from Brazil. But the 24-year-old artist draws inspiration from her travels around the world and sings in four different languages on her sophomore album, Soyo.
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