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An estimated 20,000 children live on the streets of Romania. Some of them live underground in the subways of the capital, Bucharest. In the second part of our series of interviews with documentary filmmakers nominated for an Academy Award this year, Korva Coleman speaks with Edet Belzberg about her movie, Children Underground. The film, which follows five homeless Romanian children, airs on Cinemax in July. (8:30)

On November 14, 1965 they were together at the site of the first and bloodiest major land battle of the Vietnam War, Ia Drang. Moore was in command of the 1st battalion of the 7th Cavalry, and Galloway, then a UPI reporter, accompanied them. Moore and Galloway wrote a book about their experiences in the Ia Drang valley, We Were Soldiers Once... And Young.(Random House) Its been made into a movie, We Were Soldiers, starring Mel Gibson. Galloway has a small part in the film. This interview originally aired on Nov. 11, 1992.

Intrepid Gardening Correspondent, NPR's Ketzel Levine concludes her Armchair Gardener series with stories of waterbed heaters and tomatoes, plastic wrap and forsythia. Listeners tell the lengths they'll go to protect their greenery from winter's chill.

Overalls have clothed Americans at work and play since the 1700s, becoming a national icon in the process. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on the evolution of overalls -- from low-class work clothes to pop fashion -- as part of NPR's Present at the Creation series.

Matthew Omisore died two weeks ago. It's not likely you know that name, but you might remember his story. Matthew was 18 years old and had sold drugs for most of his teenage years. Joe Richman was the producer of the Prison Diaries series that aired on All Things Considered last year and brought us Matthew's story as part of that series.

Director Ridley Scott has received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director for his film Black Hawk Down. The film, based on the best-selling book written by Mark Bowden, is an account of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia, in which 19 U.S. solders and some 1,000 Somalis were killed. Scott also received a nomination for best director last year, for his film Gladiator, which won the Oscar for Best Picture. Scott's other films include Hannibal, Thelma and Louise, Blade Runner and Alien.

At Roosevelt High School in Seattle, teachers are using a new science curriculum called the Inquiry Method to teach biology. It's supposed to inspire curiosity -- sometimes at the expense of memorization of facts. NPR's Robert Smith is spending a whole year following the teachers and students at Roosevelt, and has this report. (6:15)

Journalist David E. Hoffman's new book is called The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia. He profiles a group of men who became leaders in post-soviet Russia, taking over industry, commanding private armies and buying up television stations. Hoffman is the former Moscow Bureau chief for the Washington Post. Now he is based in D.C. as the newspapers Foreign Editor.

Most American scientists are as much administrators, teachers and thinkers as they are experimenters. NPR's Joe Palca has a profile of a young chemical engineer at Northwestern University who hopes to discover new drugs, and how she really goes about it.

U.S. government investigators are working overtime screening potential federal employees at what could be the most unique office space in America: deep inside a Pennsylvania mountain, in the caverns of an abandoned mine. For All Things Considered, NPR's Pam Fessler gets a rare glimpse inside Iron Mountain..