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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.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. This week's winner is McKee (Mih-kee) Lee of ansas City, Missouri. He's a philosophy professor at Central Missouri State niversity in Warrensburg, about 50 miles from Kansas City. His public radio tation is KCUR in Kansas City.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on the resolution of a longstanding farm labor battle. The United Farmworkers Union signed a five-year contract this past week with agri-business giant, Bruce Church Incorporated, one of the largest producers of lettuce.

Producer Joe Richman's series of audio diaries from teenagers around the country continues. This month's entry is from 14-year old Ricky Sherman of Buffalo Grove, Illinois. Ricky's dad says God is make believe; his mom is an agnostic. But Ricky thinks the possibility of God is an appealing one. (12:30) CUTAWAY 1C 0:59 1D 6. LANDMARK COLLEGE -- Tatiana Schreiber (tah-CHAH-na SHRY-bur) reports on the only accredited college in the U.S. exclusively serving students with learning disabilities. She attends a recent graduation ceremony to talk with students and teachers.

The presumptive GOP presidential nominee, Sen. Bob Dole, today challenged President Clinton to come out strongly in favor of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution if he is serious about getting rid of the federal deficit. Dole plans on bringing the amendment up on the Senate floor one last time before he retires next week. President Clinton responded that Republicans were hiding behind the amendment to avoid negotiating on specific spending cuts. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

In the second of two reports on Mexican immigrants, NPR's David Welna visits New Rochelle, a wealthy suburb of New York City which has became a favorite destination of young men from the poor town of Cotija (coh-TEE-ha) in central Mexico. A few thousand Mexicans--legal and illegal--live in New Rochelle. They're part of an eastward drift among growing numbers of Mexican immigrants attracted by good wages and little fear of immigration raids. Swamped by the massive illegal population in the southwest, the immigration service doesn't have the resources to focus on places like New Rochelle.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition gardening consultant Ketzel Levine about roses and this weekend's rose festival in her new hometown, Portland, Oregon.

The Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site in Danville, California is making available for the first time the only known recording of O'Neill as he reads from his play 'Long Day's Journey into Night'. Susan talks with park ranger Jean Houts, who conducts daily tours of Tao House - where O'Neill wrote four of his most important plays.

Reporter Amy Bernstein visits the headquarters of a magazine for pre-teen girls called "Girls' Life." The relatively new magazine is the first full-fledged glossy of its kind and has become something of a phenomenon in the publishing world. With over one hundred thousand current subscribers and two to three thousand more pouring in every month, the magazine seems to have found a niche...although advertisers still need to be convinced of its appeal and the buying power of its primary demographic group.

today. He is the first North Korean defector to fly a military plane to the South since February 1983.