February 4, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- It was a lovely photograph, but there is a sense of privacy in a moment like that, and they didn't ask.
- How the ancient Greeks viewed weapons.
- Hemingway probably never wrote the six-word story "for sale, baby shoes, never worn."
- British jails identify food distributor that supplied halal-labeled products containing pork DNA.
- Archeologists discover the skeleton of Richard III, killed in battle in 1485, beneath a Leicester parking lot.
- A teacher introduces her students to Macbeth.
- Children's author and folklorist Diane Wolkstein, once New York City's official storyteller, dies at 70.
- In Muck City, Fla., where nearly half the young men have felony convictions, football is more than religion—it's salvation.
- With a cocktail of drugs, a 45-foot bus, and many willing clients, Jason Burke is determined to find the ultimate hangover cure.
- What to do when you find $175K worth of marijuana in your backyard.
- Longtime Bowie producer Tony Visconti on recording the new album, and how, despite Fripp, they kept it a secret.
- La Scala bans music critic for using "his articles not as moments of reflection but as weapons."
- Photographer Thierry Cohen depicts the night skies over New York and other cities if they shut off the lights.
- A writer recalls the vivid hallucinations as she struggled to contain her macular degeneration.
- Boasting the body of a man half his age, a 74-year-old doctor credits testosterone with saving his physique.
- The entire run of Omni magazine, from 1978 to 1995, is now available online.
