NYT Magazine | A Sunken WWII Warship and a Quest Funded By a Microsoft Cofounder

Inside the epic hunt to find the U.S.S. Wasp. View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Friday, March 15, 2019 [NYTimes.com »]( [The Epic Hunt for a Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier]( By ED CAESAR [A World War II helmet found by the Petrel, a high-tech research vessel, at the bottom of the Pacific.]( A World War II helmet found by the Petrel, a high-tech research vessel, at the bottom of the Pacific. David Maurice Smith for The New York Times In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. For decades, the families of the dead wondered where in the lightless depths of the ocean the ship could possibly be. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it. [[Read the story now.]( The Ethicist [Is It O.K. for a Chinese Restaurant to Favor Chinese Patrons?]( By KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH Illustration by Tomi Um “At a Chinatown restaurant we go to for lunch, there is a “lunch menu” and a “dinner menu.” Whenever a Chinese person comes in, he or she is automatically given the lunch menu. When a non-Chinese person comes in, he or she is usually given the dinner menu. The dinner menu is considerably more expensive and does not have the low-cost luncheon choices. We know this, and so we always ask for the lunch menu, which they bring without a problem. However, a majority of other non-Chinese (usually foreign tourists) who come in do not know about the lunch menu and spend more than they need to. I am always tempted to tell them to ask for the lunch menu. Would that be an ethically sound decision? Or should I just butt out?” [Read the Ethicist’s response here.]( [A Dating Show Made for the Age of Apps]( By LAUREN OYLER Netflix’s “Dating Around” mimics the low-stakes horror of Tinder and the rest. More from the Magazine:  [The U.S.S. Wasp: Torpedoed, Scuttled, Sunk and Now Found]( By JOHN ISMAY Seventy-six years ago, the aircraft carrier was crippled by Japanese torpedoes. A team of researchers just tracked it down, 14,000 feet below sea level. Here’s how. [Spinach-and-cilantro soup with tahini and lemon.]( Paola & Murray for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Angharad Bailey. [A Spinach Soup Fit for a Cleanse]( By SAMIN NOSRAT Despite being born of restrictions, this soup tastes of abundance.  [Poem: PREY]( By ADA LIMON AND RITA DOVE Whenever bad news arrives, grief swoops down to saturate the decisive moment with significance — suddenly, we’ve never been able to see more clearly. [Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, right, leaving the Fort Bragg Courtroom Facility after a sentencing hearing in October 2017.]( Andrew Craft/The Fayetteville Observer, via Associated Press [When It Comes to Bowe Bergdahl, ‘We All Really Failed’]( By LAUREN KATZENBERG Matt Farwell, an Army veteran and author of “American Cipher,” has a lot to say about the war in Afghanistan and the way the country treated Bergdahl. Stay in touch:  Follow us on Twitter ([@NYTmag](  Appreciated this email? Forward it to a friend and help us grow. Loved a story? Hated it? Write us a letter at [magazine@nytimes.com](mailto:newsletters@nytimes.com?subject=Newsletter%20Feedback%20NYT%20Magazine). Did a friend forward this to you? [Sign up here to get the magazine newsletter](  Check us out on[ Instagram]( where you’ll find photography from our archives, behind-the-scenes snippets from photo shoots, interviews on how we design our covers and outtakes that don’t make it into the issue. We’ve got more newsletters! You might like At War.  Learn more about the experiences and costs of war. [Sign up for the At War newsletter]( to receive stories about conflict from Times reporters and outside voices.  FOLLOW NYTimes [Twitter] [@nytmag]( Get more [NYTimes.com newsletters »]( | Get unlimited access to NYTimes.com and our NYTimes apps. [Subscribe »]( ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's The New York Times Magazine newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( | [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Change Your Email]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Contact]( | [Advertise]( Copyright 2019 The New York Times Company 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018