PRI’s The World: 02/06/2014

The World
The Winter Olympic Games get started in Sochi amid new security warnings – this time involving toothpaste.  
Also, Japan considers using algae to help leach radioactivity from the sea water around Fukushima. 
Plus, the strange tale of a man dubbed "Japan's Beethoven," who, it turns out, hasn't written his own music for the past 20 years. 
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