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Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Chris Hoffman from Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.)

A new law restricting the number of years families can remain on welfare has taken effect in Ohio, where some 3,800 families will no longer receive monthly checks from the government. Another 1,900 will go off the rolls next month. Bill Cohen from Ohio Public Radio reports that welfare advocates are up in arms about it.

Liane reads copy on the return to the United States yesterday of the bodies of five sailors who died in the attack on the USS Cole last week. Sailors injured in the blast have been flown to a U-S military hospital in Germany, and about 100 investigators from the United States are expected to arrive in Yemen by the end of the weekend in an effort to determine the cause of the explosion.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr considers the future of the Middle East peace process.

An outbreak of the Ebola virus in Uganda has killed 39 people, an infected dozens more. Noah talks to Dr. Matthew Lukwiya, Medical Superintendent for Saint Mary Locar Hospital in the town of Gulu, where a team from the World Health Organization arrived today. Lukwiya says that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organization will be helpful in setting up laboratories to help with early detection of the Ebola virus.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports today, a federal appeals court released the final report of Independent Counsel Robert Ray on the firings of White House travel office employees in 1993. As Ray had announced in a preliminary report, he finds that Hillary Rodham Clinton gave investigators factually inaccurate statements as to her involvement with the firings. But he also says she may not have known they were false because she may not have known the influence she had with officials who made the firing decision.

The newest CD by jazz violinist Regina Carter, Motor City Moments, features compositions by her fellow Detroit natives like vibraphonist Milt Jackson and Marvin Gaye. Carter is garnering recognition for her jazz interpretations of pop-based material. Reuben Jackson has a review. (4:30) Motor City Moments, by Regina Carter is copyright 2000 on the Verve label, catalog # 314 543 927-2, see http://vervemusicgroup.com.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on Palestinians' frustrated hopes for the peace process at Oslo.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Rabbi Jerome Segal, President of the Jewish Peace Lobby and author of the book, "Negotiating Jerusalem." They discuss the origins of the current violence in the Israeli-occupied territories and how it might affect prospects for a Mideast peace agreement.

Host Bob Edwards talks with G-Q magazine's sports columnist Peter Richmond about this season's dominating start for the St. Louis Rams. Last year's number one football team is undefeated so far, with quarterback Kurt Warner proving that he's got staying power.