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Linda Wertheimer talks to NPR's Nina Totenberg about the investigation of Theodore Kaczynski. Federal agents are continuing their search of his cabin. In addition to bomb-making materials, they have also discovered writings.

NPR's Philip Davis reports on the arrival today of the bodies of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and others killed in a plane crash in Croatia earlier this week. President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and families of the victims were at Dover Air Force Base to receive the bodies.

Daniel speaks with Craig Buck about efforts to rebuild Bosnia's crippled economy. Buck leads a team from the US Agency for International Development. He says the top priorities for his team are creating jobs and rebuilding homes. He believes that economic recovery is essential for maintaining peace in the region.

Howard Berkes retraces the events leading to the arrest of Ted Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber. FBI officials continue to piece together evidence to link Ted Kaczynski to the Unabomber. The piece includes reactions from those who knew him in Lincoln, Montana to previous acquaintances and victims.

Daniel talks with Tom Salp, a former FBI agent who worked in the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy. Salp explains how behavioral and psychological profiles are created and used in the apprehension of suspects.

Daniel talks with Dianna Ortiz, an American nun who says she was raped and tortured in Guatemala in 1989. Sister Dianna is in the eighth day of a vigil in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Park, which is across the street from The White House. She says that the U.S. government has information about her torturers and is keeping a vigil to pressure the U.S. government to release its investigative files on her case, and others like it. The Clinton administration has said that once the Intelligence Oversight Board has reviewed her case, the appropriate information will be made available.

Daniel talks with Timothy Flannery, a mamologist at the Sydney Museum, about the growing popularity of Easter Bilbies in Australia. They are rapidly taking the place of the traditional Easter Bunny because the bunny population has created huge agricultural problems there. Flannery describes the Bilbie as a small animal will silky blueish fur and a friendly demeanor.

Daniel talks with Colin Spencer, author of "The Heretic's Feast, a History of Vegetarianism". Spencer says one of the first great vegetarians on record was Pythagoras, who about 25 hundred years ago, headed a sect which believed in part that human souls can reincarnate into animal forms and therefore animals shouldn't be eaten. Pythagoras was considered to be a very holy man at the time, but in later years European Christians viewed vegetarians as heretics and poked fun at them - a habit which Spencer says persists today.

Commentator Merrill Matthews has a humorous suggested list of warning labels to put on different federal agencies and government offices. Some are hazardous to your health, some are hazardous to your pocketbook and some to the well being of your children.

Robert talks to Seymour Martin Lipset, author of "American Exceptionalism: A Double Edged Sword." (W.W. Norton & Company) Lipset says that many of the characteristics that Alexis de Tocqueville described as uniquely American still exist in our society today and continue to make the United States different from other countries. But Lipset notes these characteristics have a negative side, too.