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The flip side is this CNN story on how vanity is on the rise among college students.

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So the death of Toro has inspired all sorts of backbiting and gloating in the Canadian magazine world. The editors of Driven are gloating that their magazine hasn’t gone under and inspired a nice batch of comments over at the Canadian Magazines blog. 

“We’ve always been confident that men want to read about what’s new in fashion, technology, watches and cars. The failure of our primary competitor does not lend credence to the theory that men won’t read about products…only that despite offering a quality publication, Toro failed to assess exactly what men are interested in,” says Driven Editor in Chief Michael La Fave.

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