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Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton may have a clear lead in delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, so both are aggressively courting superdelegates. Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio talks about his role as a superdelegate.

The "magic number" of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination is 2,025. But neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama is close to that number. If that continues, the party's 796 superdelegates may decide the Democratic race.

If you spend hours watching HGTV or checking the value of your neighbors' home online, you may be suffering from "house lust." Although the real estate boom has gone bust, author Dan McGinn says the obsession with homes hasn't faded.

Food is a big part of Cuban playwright Eduardo Machado's life. So much so that he has written a memoir Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home. In his book he talks about life as and exile and how food played an intricate part in forming his earliest memories of Cuba and his life in the U.S.

What business did a young black woman in the Northeast have indulging a fascination with the slave-owning heroine of Gone With the Wind? NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates explains the complicated business of Scarlett fever.

The Grammy-nominated People Take Warning! collects historical songs of murder and disaster during a fertile era for blues and country music: 1913-38. With its cautionary title against the looming industrial age, these musicians took the sensationalism of calamity to song.

Scott Simon talks with Tammy Soong, temporary chair for a Democratic caucus venue in her home city of Reno, Nev., about how Nevada will choose delegates for the 2008 Democratic National Convention during Saturday's caucuses.

In Calef Brown's Flamingos on the Roof, mosquitoes wear tuxedoes, dogs sport plaid suits and thunder is a cafe staple. His new collection of poems and paintings creates a carefree world full of alliteration, frivolity and fun.

"I am coming to you. You will explode in a few minutes." Some are saying that threat, received by U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, may not have come from Iranian ships. David Brown, managing editor at Navy Times, reports that some blame the so-called "Filipino Monkey," a heckler or group of hecklers responsible for renegade radio chatter in the Persian Gulf for the last 25 years.

Across New Hampshire, a surge in support from female voters propelled Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York to a narrow victory in Tuesday's Democratic primary. Women in the small town of Jaffrey reflect on why they cast their ballots for the former first lady.