21 March 2008: Morning

Poll: New Yorkers like their new governor--didn't you hear about the last one?

What have the superdelegates been doing, anyway? Reading tea leaves and playing wait and see.

In San Diego, parents who object to vaccines meet an unexpected foe: measles.

"This is on the same level of catastrophe as the Challenger disaster." After two decades of searching for an AIDS vaccine, science may be no closer to the goal.

Hoping to learn how humans could re-grow more than just fingertips, scientists gather salamanders.

Yearning for everlasting youth may amount to a "new anorexia." The un-aged hit up the anti-aging market.

In California, Starbucks is ordered to pay back more than $100 million taken from its baristas' tip jars.

Although [he] was often drunk and out of control, he was always a spontaneous liar on any subject that his dizzy brain might extrude. Gore Vidal on the late William F. Buckley.

On the ever-expanding circle of doom among sneakers, bands, and advertising agencies.

Video: Ten-year-old plays a wicked "Carry on My Wayward Son."

And: Will Ferrell and Dave Grohl play a surprisingly affecting "Leather and Lace."

The Chicago Sun-Times gets "punk'd" by the Tribune in a music video contest.

Wishing you a happy Good Friday, Purim, Narouz, Eid Mila an Nabi, Small Holi, and Magha Puja.