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Monday, March 20, 2006

You forgot to flush

A snake has been found abandoned in a Sydney Airport women's toilet after a reptile smuggler apparently had a case of cold feet before facing Australian customs.

The one-metre green tree python, pictured, was found by a cleaner in a female toilet in the arrivals concourse yesterday afternoon.

Customs officials have no clues as to the identity of the smuggler but say the incident shows the effectiveness of tight security measures at the airport.

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US Federal Judge Rules James Joyce's Ulysses Not Obscene (1933)

For more than a decade after its debut, James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, was banned in the US. A literary magazine had attempted to publish it in serial form, but the series was cut short after the publishers ran a rather suggestive passage and were convicted of obscenity. When the implicit ban on the book was finally challenged in 1933, Judge John M. Woolsey praised the work for its literary merits and ruled that it was not obscene. How did a publisher force the issue to court? More... Discuss

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