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NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on the four directors who have led the Federal Bureau of Investigation since J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI's most recent director, Louis Freeh, leaves a bureau clouded by scandal and accusations, but his predecessors didn't have an easy job, either.

Finding free music on the Internet is as easy as it was in Napster's heyday -- and maybe even easier. A random assortment of people nationwide told us what they'd like to find on the Internet, then NPR's Rick Karr finds it with the latest music trading programs.

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports that scientists working in an Ethiopian desert have uncovered a small boxful of bone fragments and teeth that they say may be the oldest human ancestor.

Theaters no longer screen shorts before the features, and some of the Internet sites that many hoped would provide perfectly-suited forums for shorts are now defunct. Yet there is more than one film festival devoted to them. NPR's Howie Movshovitz reports on the future of short films.

NPR's Alex Chadwick continues the National Geographic-NPR Radio Expedition about the Tortugas Ecological Reserve near the Florida Keys. Chadwick talks with the scientists studying coral reef life in the underwater wilderness area, and tries not to get seasick.

We hear suggestions for President Bush's State of the Union address from several All Things Considered commentators including English Teacher Ray Salazar of Hubbard High School, Chicago, about education; Merrill Matthews, a visiting scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas, about health care policy; Cincinnati City Beat Columnist Kathy Y. Wilson, about race relations; and Kurt Campbell, Senior Vice President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, about foreign relations.

What are the most important recorded sounds in American culture? The Library of Congress has a new home for historically and culturally significant sound. What do you think should be included? Sinatra? Dr. King? Join host Neal Conan and guests for the discussion. />/>G >/>ue>/>sts: Sam uel Brylawsky *Director of the Recorded Sound Section in the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded S >/>ound >/> Division Jay Allison *A producer with NPR's Lost and Found Sound *Curator of NPR's Q >/>uest for>/ > Sound Project Steve Smolian *A recording engineer and specialist on preservation of so />und in obso/>lete sound recordings

NPR s Guy Raz is in London, where he reports on what folks across the pond are saying about President Bush's address.

He is a pioneer in the field of medical-imaging technology. In a new book, From Conception to Birth: a Life Unfolds, he collects images of the fetus in every stage of its development. The three-dimensional color visualizations are culled from a variety of medical-image techniques and then reconfigured on the computer. Tsiaras is also a photojournalist and an artist. His previous book is The Death Rituals of Rural Greece. He is also president and CEO of Anatomical Travelogue, Inc.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on the reactivation of the Space Shuttle Children's Trust Fund, which will solicit donations from the public to provide for the 12 children whose parents died in the shuttle Columbia shuttle disaster. The fund was started 17 years ago after the shuttle Challenger explosion. While the federal government provides death benefits to the children of astronauts, the money is only a fraction of what their parents would have earned had they survived. (The Space Shuttle Children's Trust Fund, P.O. Box 34600, Washington, D.C. 20043-4600)