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...precedent for it in the world of athletics. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, in the very same stadium where Semenya won her world title, rumors swirled that 100-meter runners Stella Walsh (nicknamed "Stella the Fella") and her rival Helen Stephens were men. After Stephens took the gold metal, the Olympics committee performed a manual check on her external genitals - and concluded that she was, in fact, a woman. And prior to the 1966 European athletics championships, female competitors were made to walk in so-called nude parades so that a committee could confirm their gender...

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

...positions outside the events that we considered a threat to the event in any way." The Secret Service generally has three layers of protection around the President: an inner circle of agents just steps away; a secure building or arena in which the President is appearing, with restricted admission, metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs; and finally, an outer perimeter with checkpoints. (See the top 10 Secret Service code names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Protesters Bear Arms Against Health-Care Reform | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...Iraqi government is blaming a new alliance of religious extremists and Baathists for the violence, though it is hard to assess that claim at the moment. There is a feeling of disbelief among Iraqis as they see images of twisted metal and bodies on their TV sets. Many had thought that the bad times were finally behind them. The violence dramatically punctuates the fact that Iraq is amid a critical and highly charged political season - one in which the country's instabilities are conflating with the activity of political parties and accompanying militias, creating alliances as they head for elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bombs in Baghdad Make the U.S. an Election Issue | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...human rights groups have protested his sudden return as a setback for Afghan democracy. As a commander of the Uzbek forces of the Northern Alliance, Dostum acquired a reputation for brutality and was accused of war crimes, including the mass suffocation of Taliban prisoners held in metal containers in 2001. He denies the allegations. Dostum had taken refuge in Turkey amid conflict with a rival, but he remains the single most powerful leader of an Uzbek minority that accounts for 9% of Afghanistan's population. (Read a story about what Afghan election result is best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Warlord Who Is Key to Karzai's Victory | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...available in the Eastern Prison helping him fuel his addiction. "It is tough in here any way. But when you're walking round high on drugs it just gets you in more trouble," Lopez says, resting in a sun scorched prison yard after doing chin ups on a rusty metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Think California's Prisons are a Problem? Look at Mexico's | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

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