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Attorney Spencer Sheehan has sued over not enough strawberries, little or no actual vanilla and how much lime constitutes "a hint of lime" in chips. Companies often pay to make these lawsuits go away.

Hip Hop artist Sean "Puffy" Combs is on trial in New York on charges of gun possession and bribery. The charges stem from a shootout at a nightclub at the end of December 1999. Noah talks with Bob Meadows, correspondent for People Magazine, about the trial.

At a briefing Wednesday, District Attorney for Santa Fe County Mary Carmack-Altwies said it's too early for any charges in the investigation into the Rust film shooting that left cinematographer dead.

A new study shows that two-thirds of parents aren't ready to get their younger kids vaccinated when they're eligible. Like parents did with older kids, many say they're taking a wait-and-see approach.

Thomas Gainsborough's 18th century painting Blue Boy inspired 21st century painter Kehinde Wiley, and they're being shown across from each other at the Huntington Art Museum near Los Angeles.

Alan Cheuse reviews The Collected Stories, of Arthur C. Clarke, which contains more than 60 years of Clarke's short fiction. (2:00) The Collected Stories by Arthur C. Clarke is published by Tor Books.

In Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art has mounted an ad campaign on billboards around the city. The billboards are, in effect, labels for the settings in which they're located. Imagine the city as if it were a painting, and you'll get the idea. NPR's Andy Bowers reports.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Rudy Penner, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and co-author of Updating America's Social Contract, about how realistic the federal budget projections -- and therefore the Bush plans for tax cuts -- are. Penner was Director of the United States Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987, and Chief Economist of the White House Office of Management and Budget under President Gerald Ford. (5:00) Updating America's Social Contract, co-authored by Rudy Penner, is published by W.W. Norton, July 2000.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports that the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is experiencing a vast increase in killings by local police. Many of the dead are found to have been shot in the back.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Linda Wertheimer about today's testimony in the trial of four men accused of conspiring to blow up the U.S. embassies in east Africa in 1998.