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2: Director of the National Center on Hunger, Poverty and Nutrition at Tufts University, DR. LARRY BROWN. He directed a recent study titled "Statement on Key Welfare Reform Issues: The Empirical Evidence." The study revealed the assumptions behind the Republican "Contract With America" regarding welfare reform to be wrong. He agrees reform is necessary but feels reform must be focused on the right target.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH DR. DAVID LONG, HISTORIAN AND PROFESSOR OF LAW AND HISTORY AT MANATEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN BRADENTON, FLORIDA, ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK "THE JEWEL OF LIBERTY," PUBLISHED BY STACKPOLE BOOKS. THIS WORK ABOUT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1864 IS BEING CALLED THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK WRITTEN ABOUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN MANY YEARS. NPR'S BOB EDWARDS READS FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

Maria Hinojosa reports that law enforcement is increasingly relying on the use of informants to catch people suspected of crimes. The problem is that often those informants have criminal records themselves and have been known to lie to law enforcement about what they've discovered, which, in some instances has meant that innocent people have been dragged through criminal proceedings.

Professor GREGORY HOWARD WILLIAMS. He spent the first ten years of his life believing he was white in segregated Virginia, and that his dark-skinned father was Italian. When his parents marriage ended, his father took him and his brother to Muncie, Indiana, where the boys learned that they were half black. WILLIAMS has written "Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black" (Dutton) about the struggle and repression he faced growing up between the races. Publisher's Weekly calls it "(an) affecting and absorbing story.

2: Record producer PHIL RAMONE. He has been called the "Pope of pop," producing and engineering artists from Bob Dylan to Gloria Estefan, Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand, Paul Simon, Billy Joel and dozens of others. Last year he produced Frank Sinatra's Duets 2. RAMONE has just finished recording a classical album with the Curtis Institute Orchestra(EMI). He also produce the cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's "Passion."

2: Film Writer/Director ATOM EGOYAN (EE-goy-an) has just made a new movie, "Exotica." The movie won the International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival at the 1994 awards. Exotica is considered to be EGOYAN'S breakthrough movie. Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer says when the movie ended, "I sat stunned in the theater...Exotica high on my ten best list."

LETTERS: Liane Hansen reads letters from listeners.

Liane Hansen talks with Paul Lukas, publisher and editor of Beer Frame - The Journal of Inconspicuous Consumption." This self-styled "zine" eals with the scarcely-noticed, often taken-for-granted minutiae of consumer roducts.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that researchers now say the moon, which already affects so much of our lives, actually warms the temperature here on earth. And while earthlings may not notice this slight distinction - scientists have certaintly enjoyed looking into it.

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ECONOMY: SCOTT SIMON AND JOSEPH NOCERA (no-SER-ah), A BUSINESS COLUMNIST FOR GENTLEMEN'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE, TALK ABOUT THE SALARIES OF MANY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, AND HOW THEY REMAIN HIGH WHILE THEIR COMPANIES REPORT LOSES AND LAY OFF WORKERS.

3 : Actor Gary Senise is up for an Oscar for his supporting role in "Forrest Gump."Senise also starred in a film version of "Of Mice and Men."