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Chris Arnold reports on Scott Cook and Tom Proulx (PROO), founders of Intuit, the hugely successful creater of home finance computer software. Ten years ago, the company almost went under, but they manaaged to survive by mortgaging their homes, borrowing from their parents' retirement money, and working very long days. Now, they sell "Quicken," the most popular home finance program in the world.

News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that President Clinton of late has spoken of a streamlined--yet effective--government, and has been developing this theme since his State of the Union speech in January.

JOHN DOUGLAS... author and former FBI unit chief who originated the Unabomber profile talks about the 18-year manhunt for the Unabomber suspect. Douglas has published a new book, "Unabomber: on the trail of America's most wanted serial killer" (Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster). His previous book is, "Mindhunter", a report on the criminal profiling program of the FBI's behavioral science unit.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on the murky ethical questions that can arise during medical research. Palca tells the story of a woman with multiple sclerosis who volunteered to test an experimental drug. She says she was promised a free supply of the medication in exchange for her participation. Medical ethicists say patients should never be made promises like that, and should not enter studies with the expectation that they will benefit personally.

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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.

NPR's Tovia (TOE-vee-uh) Smith reports on a fight in Connecticut and a number of other states over how best to care for mentally retarded adults. A number of states have closed down their mental instituions, favoring instead smaller home based programs. But some in Connecticut defend the state's largest such institution, the Southbury Training School...saying it is not the cold cruel place critics charge it is.

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

Scott talks with geologist Mike Warner of London University's Imperial College. Dr. Warner led a team of British scientists to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula to study a giant crater created by a meteorite that landed on the earth 65 million years ago. It's believed this meteorite may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Scott and Weekend Edition sports commentator Ron Rapoport talk about how some young basketball players are leaving college early, and some bypassing college altogether, to play for the National Basketball Association.

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.