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How much does the average guy make? How much does he save? How fast can he run? How much T-V does he watch? Our figures come from current issue of Men's Health magazine.

NPR's Neal Conan tells the story of Alison Bly, the so-called Dynamite Lady of minor league baseball. As part of his twice-monthly series Play-by-Play Conan watches Bly shoot across the sky as part of the ball park entertainment.

NPR's Brian Naylor takes a look at one of the most important Pennsylvania House races. Patrick Casey's running against an aggressive one-term Republican Representative, Don Sherwood. It's one of the races to watch in the battle for control of the US House.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Steve Goose, the program director of Human Rights Watch, and editor of a report to be released Thursday from the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. It shows progress since the signing of the 1997 international treaty to ban the use, manufacture or trade of anti-personnel mines.

Commentator Martin Bernstein tells how type-A's can survive through this long weekend of baseball-watching on TV.

Sam Eaton of member station KUOW reports on a new kind of pawn shop. In suburban Seattle, the upscale 'Yuppie Pawn Shop' stocks Rolex watches, fine art and even a Mercedes.

Noah Adams watches a game in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament with some of the members of the Bishop McNamara High School girl's basketball team -- at the home of their coach. For the team members, the game is instructive as well as entertaining. They see their future hopes and challenges in the game on TV.

"The Album" is the first Jonas Brothers album in four years.

Watch the jazz-fusion bass guitarist give a stirring performance of "Them Changes."

Daniel speaks with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold about the results of the South Carolina primary today. Bob Dole is the projected winner there, with Pat Buchanon coming in second. This primary is being watched as a potential bellweather of whom voters will choose in other primaries in the South.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says he has no sympathy for journalists who say there was no news at the GOP convention--he says watching the parties speak and meet is part of the democratic process...it is self-government at work.

Presidents, Vice Presidents, Representatives and Senators come and go, but lawyers and lobbyists are the ones who make the wheels turn in Washington. Their offices are also some of the best places to watch the festivities and mingle. Peter Overby spent part of Inauguration Day with some denizens of "Permanent Washington."