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New photos show that the convoy is considerably longer than the 17 miles initially reported and heading toward the Ukrainian capital.

A new exhibit celebrates Joseph Cornell, one of the most influential and idiosyncratic American artists of the 20th century. The self-taught artist created small wooden boxes filled with knickknacks he collected in New York junk shops. As David D'Arcy reports, the results were beautiful, almost religious creations that inspired just about every visual artist who followed him.

All this week, All Things Considered and Morning Edition has aired stories about the global journey a T-shirt makes from seed to finished product. Over the months NPR's Planet Money team spent reporting the series, they tackled questions about trade, work and clothes play in the global economy.

He is currently senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace where he is on leave from his position as Newsweek magazine's chief diplomatic correspondent. He is also director of American University's Crimes of War Project. Gutman won the Pulitzer prize in 1993 for his coverage of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he provided the first documented reports of concentration camps. He is co-editor of the book, Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know and is author of A Witness to Genocide: The 1993 Pulitzer Prize Winning Dispatches on Ethnic Cleansing of Bosnia and Banana Diplomacy: The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua, 1981-1987.

Twenty-five years ago this week, China invaded Vietnam. But the border war between the two ended quickly, with the Chinese retreating after heavy losses. In a series exploring China's relations with its neighbors, NPR's Michael Sullivan reports the two are gradually strengthening their cultural and economic ties.

A tiny insect called the froghopper, or spittle bug, leapt over the flea as nature's most powerful jumper. A new study says that the spittle bug can leap more than two feet in the air. That's more than twice as high as the flea, and the equivalent of a man jumping over the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with NPR's Michele Kelemen about Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld denial today that he had kept Congress and the American people in the dark about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners under U.S. control. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, he vowed to take all steps neccessary to bring those who committed the abuse to justice. General Peter Pace, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff defended the pace of the investigation, saying it had to be reviewed independently at many levels of the chain of command.

During the first few months of the Iraq war, field historians armed with digital recorders conducted hundred of interviews with U.S. Marines, often fresh off the battlefield. The raw recordings offer a stirring, intimate look of the triumphs and failures on the road to Baghdad. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.

Flipping a coin may not be the fairest way to settle disputes. A team of mathematicians claims to have proven that if you start with a coin on your thumb, heads up, flip it and catch it in your hand, it's more likely to land heads up than tails. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

During his life, New York's Jack Smith was popular among artists, but never a financial success. He died broke, and his friends say the saved his work from the dump. But, as David D'Arcy reports, the art world has now caught up with Smith, and a legal battle looms over who owns his work.