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Slate: The National Center on Sexual Exploitation is behind a successful push to place Hearst’s Cosmopolitan magazine behind blinders in stores owned by two major chains, RiteAid and Delhaize America. Victoria Hearst, granddaughter of Hearst founder William Randolph Hearst, writes in the group’s press release that the stores’ decision will “protect underage children from being exposed to the magazine’s sexually explicit covers.” Hearst hopes the stores will either stop selling Cosmo entirely or forbid the magazine’s sale to anyone under 18.