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May 6, 2009 · Melissa Block/NPR ... The Counter Strike laser tag park is based on a shoot-'em-up video game. The battlefield where the two armies face off is a lush garden filled with huge pink peonies and moss ...
- Melissa Block
May 13, 2008 · On the road to Ganxi, in an area hit hard by Monday's earthquake, NPR's Melissa Block talks with a woman who estimates that 5,000 people died in her town, and meets a boy hobbling with a fractured ...
- Melissa Block
NPR's Melissa Block was in China when a major earthquake hit in 2008. As she wraps up her time as host of All Things Considered, she reconnects with a Chinese girl who has overcome great challenges.
Aug 18, 2023 · Courtesy of Melissa Block. Melissa Block reporting in Yingxiu, China, near the epicenter of the devastating May 2008 earthquake. It’s the first Monday morning of Melissa Block’s retirement from NPR, and she’s doing a phone interview. She’s not the one asking the questions this time; even so, it quickly becomes clear who’s in charge.
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May 15, 2009 · China marked the first anniversary of the fatal earthquake that ravaged the Sichuan province. NPR's Melissa Block was reporting in China when disaster struck and returned a year later to see how ...
Jun 30, 2023 · It's Melissa Block, and she is leaving NPR after 38 years. She was an NPR booker and producer and editor and correspondent, and for more than 12 years, she hosted this program. Over those decades, she has brought our listeners stories of joy. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) BLOCK: Watch and listen to how the home plate umpire calls strikes.
Jun 30, 2023 · MELISSA BLOCK, BYLINE: What's left of the World Trade Center is a smoking, smoldering pile of twisted beams and girders with small sections of the building's skin still standing, poking at crazy angles into the sky. KELLY: You know the voice. It's Melissa Block, and she is leaving NPR after 38 years. She was an NPR booker and producer and ...
