Manga uproar: The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Scholastic Inc. is pulling Shonen Jump from its list of books sold at school book fairs across the country. The comic had been bought by a fifth-grader at Hillcrest Intermediate School, where the principal was "stunned" by the content which, the article explains, included mild profanity, violence, a swastika, a female character "who asks readers to pick up the next issue to see which 'hot guy' would be the next to die," and cigarette smoking:

"This is a fifth- and sixth-grade building. These are 10- and 11-year-olds. It's against what we're teaching. It's against our DARE (Drug Awareness Resistance Education) and the St. Vincent College prevention program."