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Jon Stewart's Daily Show too has seemed even more energized in the Obama era. Stewart's great discovery, of course, was that political satire in the 2000s no longer requires actual jokes. All that's needed is merely to present the hypocrisy and pomposity of political leaders in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy in the Obama Age: The Joking Gets Hard | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

Because gender and its relationship to athletic advantage can be such a complex matter, the International Olympic Committee and the IAAF now use a comprehensive evaluation by a panel of specialists to determine whether an athlete can compete as a woman. The IAAF's evaluation of Semenya will include an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Female Track Star a Man? No Simple Answer | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

Season 3 picks up several months after Season 2 ended, in spring 1963. Don Draper (Jon Hamm), an ad executive who changed his identity to hide his poor background, has returned to his wife Betty (January Jones), who's taken him back after a string of infidelities. Yet in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad Men: The Pauses That Refresh | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

Over the past six weeks at Disney World, a 21-year-old monorail driver, a 47-year-old actor portraying pirate Captain Jack Sparrow's henchman "Mack" and a 30-year-old stuntman practicing for the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular died in on-the-job accidents. Nothing links the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mourning Death at the Magic Kingdom | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

But Dr. Rob Ritchie, a urological surgeon at Oxford University and the author of "Intersex and the Olympic Games," a recent article in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, says that determining someone's sex is not so simple, and that external genitalia can be misleading. A post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could This Women's World Champ Be a Man? | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

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