February 1, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Der Spiegel: Germany's continued failure to return Nazi-looted property is "a moral disaster."
- After flubbing a Holocaust question on TV, Russian twins visit Auschwitz.
- Author Teddy Wayne records a cover version of a song written by a character in his new novel.
- National Review columnists discuss rap.
- Nussbaum on 30 Rock, which started as a sitcom, but became "a surreal machine capable of commenting on anything."
- Deadline is midnight tonight to apply for our Spring 2013 internship.
- I could have powered through one more week, my love for football battered but sound, were it not for the AFC Conference game.
- A journalist wonders if media efforts to prevent military suicides could be having the opposite effect.
- Between August 2010 and July 2011, 28 New Yorkers fell ill from eating fish infected with a "colorless, odorless, tasteless toxin."
- Simply Orange is anything but: The hyper-engineered orange juice includes 600-plus flavors manipulated by an algorithm.
- Until the 18th century, wine was horrible, but people consumed it because, unlike milk and water, it was sterile.
- The Non-Expert's guide to wine.
