Eric Scheske

> China will crack down on a vast, growing and largely unregulated industry offering leg-lengthening surgery for people who think they are too short, state media have said. > The operation involves breaking the patients' legs and stretching them on a rack, and has led to several cases

> Women dress to impress when they are at their most fertile, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday in a study they say shows that signs of human ovulation may not be as mysterious as some scientists believe. > A study of young college women showed they frequently wore more

Just seen at Drudge: > Actor Mel Gibson is speaking out for the first time about the anti-Semitic comments he made to police when they booked him for drunken driving last summer. > Gibson tells ABC News' Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview that his anti-Semitic statements

Coming Sunday: > Blessed Theodore Guerin (1798- 1858), the French-born founder of the American Sisters of Providence of St. Mary of the Woods; > Blessed Rafael Guizar Valencia (1878 - 1938), the Bishop of Veracruz/Jalapa, Mexico; > Blessed Filippo Smaldone (1848-1923), an Italian diocesan priest and founder of

Two good emails from readers who are bailing me out on a slow post day: > Happy Birthday! Wilhelm Roepke [http://www.mises.org/content/roepke.asp]. Although, most of your "Austrian" friends have forgotten you, and can't find space on their site to remember you.

What to write about today? Pitt and Jolie [http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13546041,00.html]? Naw, though I found it interesting that their bodyguard appears to be a lot older and shorter than the poor photographer that he manhandled. Google's purchase of Youtube [http: