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Contents: The Man In The Bomb Suit (Iraq has become a repository for just about every weapons system known to man. The situation is literally explosive, with an estimated 10 million mines buried in the dirt, often in populated areas. We patrol Baghdad with ace bomb tech Staff Sergeant Jeffrey S. Sarver of the Army’s 788th Ordance Company, an elite unit that protects troops from improvised explosive devices. Sarver’s distinction: He has disarmed more of them than any man in the war); Sport Stars (The roadster is the ultimate sports car, and those designed in the 1950s and 1960s reached a pinnacle of style and performance that has yet to be matched. Get reverent about the five finest two-seaters ever built); Many Happy Returns (In a 50-year career spent studying financial markets, Wall Street vet Raymond F. Devoe Jr. has survived 18 bubbles. The man knows money, and he has sound advice on how to plan your financial future); Playboy‘s 2005 College Pigskin Preview (Get blitzed with our picks for the top 25 college football teams and the Playboy All America Team, as well as our 2005 Anson Mount Scholar/Athlete winner and an interview with USC coach Pete Carroll on the state of the game) Fiction – The Fisherman And The Jinn (The monotonous daily routine of an old fisherman is broken when he discovers a brass jar with a jinn inside. Should he wish for the end of a disease? World peace? Or how about virility for 200 years? His wish is the jinn’s command…if he can make up his mind in time) The Playboy Forum – Back To The 1930s? (To ride the bus witn underclass America is to be transported to the Depression era, when there was no unemployment insurance or welfare government. Politicians today may be shocked by the backlash to their attempts to privatize Social Security, but that’s because they go first-class and not Greyhound) 20Q – Kurt Busch (This young NASCAR champion has left other drivers in the dust with his skillfun handling and unapologetically agressive behavior on and off the track. We get his wheels spinning about Dale Earnhardt flipping him the bird, the perks of being a champ and why he wears all those caps) Interview – Thomas L. Friedman (A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, this New York Times columnist and best-selling author has established himself as the leading popular commentator on globalization. His latest book, The World Is Flat, describes the technological revolution that has leveled the playing field for India and China to compete with the West. He chats candidly about the war in Iraq, the future of the Middle East and why two countries that are involved in Dell’s supply chain will never wage war with each other) Pictorials – Swedish Blondes (Join the joyride with these Scandinavian sweethearts as they show how Stockholm stacks up); Playmate: Vanessa Hoelshier (Take a trip to wine country with this sun-ripened Georgia peach, easily the sexiest oenophile on the planet); The Slugger’s Wife (Jessica Canseco bursts out of ex-husband Jose’s shadow – and her clothes – to give us a major league flash dance) Notes And News – The World Of Playboy (Hef is named one of the 100 Greatest Americans; the E! reality series The Girls Next Door tails his three girlfriends); Hangin’ With Hef (Tiffany Fallon, Baiu Ling, screen legend Jane Russell and the Entourage guys help keep the party going at the Mansion); Playmate News (Don’t wreck your neck as you crane your head out the car window to take in Lauren Michelle Hill’s sexy new Guess billboard; Erika Eleniak stars as one of the two Ginger temptations on The Real Gilligan’s Island 2) Departments – Playbill; Dear Playboy; After Hours; Mantrack; The Playboy Advisor; Party Jokes; Where And How To Buy; On The Scene; Grapevine; Potpourri Fashion – The New Playboy (What does the 21st century man look like? We asked eight top designers to construct the varied looks of the modern male – a guy who wants clothes to compliment rather than define his sense of individuality) Reviews – Movies (David Croneberg shakes up a rural town in his disturbing A History Of Violence; George Clooney is a CIA terrorist hunter in Syriana); DVDs (Go under the knife with Nip/Tuck; attack the wack with essential blaxploitation classics); Music (Head Diplomat Jim Jones drops hard lyrics on his second LP; Daddy Yankee discusses the music genre reggaeton); Games (Gunslingers grapple with vampires in the supernatural Western Darkwatch; get mean and green with The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction); Books (Bret Easton Ellis’s long-awaited Lunar Park; the hallucinatory, erotic images of Cheyco Leidmann’s Sex Is Blue)
Issue: September 2005
Condition: Very Good