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The House and Senate are rushing to finish work on legislation that would let workers keep their health insurance if they lose or change jobs, even if they have a pre-existing medical condition. And HEALTH CARE is a key campaign issue this fall. But Joanne Silberner reports a survey released today indicates that "portability," "Kassabaum-Kennedy," and "medical savings accounts" may not win or lose points for politicians, since most Americans don't quite understand the legislation.

Linda talks to NPR's White House correspondent Mara Liasson about the decision President Clinton is making on whether to sign or veto the welfare reform bill.

as an Olympic event because it doesn't measure up to the new criteria of being television-friendly...

Investigators in Atlanta will want to compare the voice of any suspect with that on the tape of the 911 call that warned of a bomb. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports on how sound spectrography is used to match voices in the lab.

Tape and copy from the funeral for vicitims of the ValuJet plane that crashed in Florida.

Earlier this week, television network representives met at the White House and agreed to a proposal to broadcast three hours of quality T.V. fare for children. Former network correspondent Linda Ellerbee has been producing programs for children for several years. She tells Linda that this agreement is an effort to make television for children better.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistad (MAGG-stadd) reports that President Clinton's national security advisor, Anthony Lake, today held a second day of political and economic talks with Chinese officials. The discussions are designed to stabilize Sino-U-S relations and end months of cross-Pacific bickering.

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NPR's Mike Shuster reports that there has been no serious bloodshed since yesterday's coup in Burundi. The coup has been roundly condemned by the United Nations, the Organization of African Unity and the United States. But so far, no concrete steps have been taken against the country's new leaders.

More Americans are relying on investments to help them buy a house or to pay the college bills...but most investors can't even distinguish between different kinds of mutual funds. As NPR's Elaine Korry reports, that makes for a rich climate for rogue brokers...and it makes it important for investors to investigate the person who's handling their money.

President Clinton announced a program today that will track the origins of guns confiscated from teenaged criminals. The 17-city effort will collect serial numbers and other information on the guns and feed that into a computer system run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The network should improve law enforcement's chances of finding out who is selling guns to juveniles. NPR's John Nielsen reports that the President has high hopes for the program, but some analysts don't see it making much of a dent in crime.

John McChesney says Japan is slowly emerging from its long recession and confronting a big hurdle that many believe could hobble progress... a society that stifles individual creativity by cultivating conformity.