• Public colleges have raised tuitions and slashed enrollments in the wake of state funding cuts, depriving the economy of qualified applicants for critical jobs, Catherine Rampell reports in the New York Times.
• A tough job market and gender discrimination are fueling a cosmetic surgery craze in China, reports Jin Zhao at Things You Don’t Know About China. China’s $47.7 billion cosmetic surgery industry is the third-largest in the world, after the U.S. and Brazil; but South Korea still leads the world in cosmetic surgery per capita thanks in part to surgical tourists from China.
• Alyssa Rosenberg of ThinkProgress suggests 10 Women Major Magazines Should be Commissioning.

• Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone on the late right wing media baron Andrew Breitbart, a con man who debased journalism.
• A Los Angeles woman was deported after getting arrested protesting the foreclosure of her home, Colorlines reports.

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