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Where the Magazines Are So Blue

Julian Sanchez | 1.23.2004 11:14 AM

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A county prosecutor in Alabama has apparently decided that even Playboy, whose claim to fame as a magazine now consists largely of being tamer than many European evening news broadcasts, is nevertheless too raunchy by the standards of his state's hyperstrict obscenity laws.

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