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Contents: The Singularity (It’s 2010. Where are our hovercars and cybernetic immortality? We’ll check with Boeing on the cars, but in the meantime Carl Zimmer charts the progress scientists have made toward understanding intelligence, both human and artificial); The Man Who Conned The Pentagon (Meet the guy who used 9/11 and Al Jazeera to scam millions from taxpayers); The Kate Moss Effect (Will Self reflects on the “rexy” dynamo); A Cut Above (Your barber misses you); Giuseppe Petrosino And The Black Hand (James Dalessandro brings the original cops-and-mobsters story to life); Cars Of The Year 2010 (When the going gets tough, the auto industry gets going – fast. Ken Gross picks the best rides); Future Of New York (Plague, holy war and exodus); Cuba Libre (Travel to Havana with Aaron Sigmond before the embargo lifts and fanny packers ruin the place); Of Love And Money (Toni Bentley ponders who’s more powerful; the one on top or the one getting paid?); The New Modern Art (Michelangelo had the Sistine Chapel; Banksy has the boulevard) Interview – Sean Combs (Diddy opens up to Jermaine Hall about success, porn and life after death) 20Q – Guy Fieri (David Hochman grills the food dude) Fiction – Animal Rescue (Bob’s got a face only a stray dog could love) Pictorials – The Notorious Tara Reid (The American cutie is all grown and ready for her close-up); The Year In Sex (Celeb twits, a stupid human trick and (we hope) the last of Jon and Kate); Playing Hard To Get (Video-game goddesses convert our pages into a true fantasyland); Playmate: Jaime Faith Edmondson (The former cop, Dolphins cheerleader and Amazing Racer is Miss January); Playmate: Heather Ray Young (Miss February makes us rethink our perception of “mountain woman”); Why We Love The ’60s (Swing back to everyone’s favorite decade with our groovy homage); Playmate Review (A look back at the fine 2009) Cartoons – Kliban’s World It’s a sexy, freaky place) Fashion – Scotland Yard Style (David Bailey snaps stately Victorian threads worn by the likes of Sherlock Holmes; consider it the Houndstooth of the Baskervilles) News And Notes – World Of Playboy (Benedikt Taschen stops by the Mansion to personally deliver the first set of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy; the new Girls Next Door present at the Fox Reality Channel Really Awards; Heidi Montag helps launch the new Stander energy drink at PMW); Hangin’ With Hef (The Man mingles with the Prince of Monaco; the Shannon twins celebrate their 20th birthday and their one-year anniversary of dating Hef); Playmate News (Say hello to the Playboy Playmate Dancers; pollster Frank Lutz learns a thing or two from our Centerfolds; Pamela Anderson keeps the skies safe from fur) Departments – Playbill; Dear Playboy; After Hours; Reviews; Mantrack; Playboy Advisor; Party Jokes; Grapevine The Playboy Forum – Decoding The Veil (Before we encourage all Muslim women to burn their burka, Malise Ruthven suggests we examine the most powerful piece of clothing on the planet. To Westerners it symbolizes women’s oppression. But have we asked Islamic women how they feel?)
Issue: January – February 2010
Condition: Very Good