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NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that welfare reform is one of the big uncompleted pieces of business from last year. As lawmakers continue to wrestle with an overhaul at the federal level, the states have been making their own changes. 37 states have been granted waivers to set their own rules on who is eligible for assistance. Today, President Clinton gave the states more leeway. In his weekly radio address, he announced any state that wants to, will now be allowed to pay teenage mothers a cash bonus if they stay in school.

NPR's Dan Charles reports that the role of typewriters in th eUNABOMBER probe has highlighted how law enforcement officials study typewriters in their investigations. Forensics experts can identify the unique signature of an individual typewriter. But the advent of computers and printers has undermined this ability.

NPR's Steve Inskeep has been following developments in a race for the congressional seat in Pennsylvania's 15th district, between incumbent Democrat Paul McHale and Republican challenger Bob Kilbanks. The contest is considered a toss-up and the kind of seat both parties say they need to win in order to control the House of Representatives. As in other congressional races, money has a major role. The piece focuses on where both candidates have gotten their money, and how that is affecting the race. (12:30). CUTAWAY 1C 0:59 1D 7. TRIMPIN. German-born, Seattle-based sound sculpturist. He creates assemblages of found and second-hand objects that make interesting musical sounds. Trimpin has earned international acclaim despite the fact that none of his work is in any museum collections anywhere...as soon as an exhibition is over, he dismantles the work and recycles the parts into new works. His works only exist in the memories of those who've seen and heard them. And Trimpin's works are inspired by memories of his childhood. He's created sound for Merce Cunningham's latest work, which is being performed tonight and tomorrow in Seattle. As tedious as all of this sounds, the SOUNDS THEMSELVES are a lot of fun. Deirdre Kennedy reports.

NPR's John Ydstie reports the economy showed signs of renewed strength in the first three months of the year. The Commerce Department says the nation's gross domestic product grew 2.8% in the first quarter, a faster rate of growth than most analysts expected. Healthy levels of cnsumer spending and business investment.

Scott speaks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about how the U-S/NATO mission in Bosnia, so far, is succeeding.

Last Saturday, Washington Mayor Marion Barry, left town last Saturday, on a personal hiatus, he said, to recover from a spiritual and physical breakdown. He says he took "inventory" of himself and found that he needed spiritual healing because he began to see "tell-tale signs of spiritual relapse and physical exhaustion." Where do these code words come from , though? Robert Siegel talks with Washington Post editor Richard Leiby (LIBE-ee) about the incorporation of "reformation and transformation language into DC politics.

In the second of two reports on Mexican immigrants, NPR's David Welna visits New Rochelle, a wealthy suburb of New York City which has became a favorite destination of young men from the poor town of Cotija (coh-TEE-ha) in central Mexico. A few thousand Mexicans--legal and illegal--live in New Rochelle. They're part of an eastward drift among growing numbers of Mexican immigrants attracted by good wages and little fear of immigration raids. Swamped by the massive illegal population in the southwest, the immigration service doesn't have the resources to focus on places like New Rochelle.

NPR's Adam Hochberg joins Strom Thurmond, the South Carolina senator who's going for an unprecedented eighth term. A Republican challenger to the 93 year old says Senator Thurmond is too old to serve.

The Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site in Danville, California is making available for the first time the only known recording of O'Neill as he reads from his play 'Long Day's Journey into Night'. Susan talks with park ranger Jean Houts, who conducts daily tours of Tao House - where O'Neill wrote four of his most important plays.

Bob Mondello says that the new film "Mission: Impossible" doesn't self-destruct, but is only an adequate thriller.