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Denis McQuail is a professor of mass communication at the University of Amsterdam and is a founding editor of the European Journal of Communication. He will analyze media accountability, public opinion and public policy...
Last week, however, investigators from the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research in Amsterdam reported preliminary evidence that transsexuals may be inherently different, after all. Their study of six male-to-female transsexuals showed that a tiny structure deep within a part of the brain that controls sexual function appeared to be more like the type found in women than that found in men. If confirmed, the study seems likely to challenge long-held beliefs about what it takes to make someone a man--or, a woman...
...most transsexuals, there is no question that something deeper is going on. From the time she was a boy of six, Bea Jansen, 46, who lives outside Amsterdam, knew her body did not reflect her true gender. "I felt there was something that didn't fit," she says. "And that something was a penis." Jansen, who plans to donate her brain to Swaab's study when she dies, underwent a sex-change operation five years ago. She speaks for many transsexuals when she describes her transformation as a liberation: "I felt as if I could finally take off a mask...
...final note, it's near impossible to imagine, but for an even more exhilarating experience, try watching Kleiber on Philips video conducting the same symphony, only this time with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam...
...American preoccupations with national landscape found the smallest echo in his work--not the sublime rhetoric of Frederick Church, not the tight-surfaced stillness of the Luminists and certainly not the blunt factuality of Winslow Homer. Whistler was a superb topographical etcher, as his scenes of London, Amsterdam and Venice show; but he cared nothing for realism when aesthetics pointed away from...