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...Gender disputes in athletics can be very complicated, however. In his paper "Intersex and the Olympic Games," Rob Ritchie, a urological surgeon at Oxford University, notes that in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta - the last Games in which all female athletes were subjected to gender testing - eight female athletes were found to be genetically male. Seven of them had androgen-insensitivity syndrome (AIS), a condition in which a genetic male is resistant to androgens, the male sex hormones that include testosterone. In such cases, the testes never descend from the abdomen and the genitalia may resemble female genitalia...
...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-mortem on Stephens' body in 1980 revealed that she had "ambiguous genitalia." The post-mortem didn't go into specifics, but those genitalia could have been a small penis that was mistaken for an enlarged clitoris, or a small scrotum that resembled labia. (Read "Feeling Betrayed by Marion Jones...
...would discover if, instead of being mesmerized by the sight of Pudong, you were to turn around and look at the solid, early 20th century buildings of the Bund, just behind you. Modernity did not come to China because Deng Xiaoping said it should. As Rana Mitter of Oxford University argues, there had been modernizing streams in Chinese society long before 1978, and had some of them taken a different course, our view of what China represents for the future would be unrecognizable from the standard text. (Just imagine what we would think if China had become a constitutional monarchy...
...Oxford college room of yore - despite the romantic connotations - was very likely to be a cold, damp and creaky affair, with moth-eaten armchairs and rudimentary amenities (picture narrow single beds and a sink and mirror in the corner). These days, though, many have been revamped to include ensuite bathrooms, complimentary toiletries, power showers and Internet access. All are spotlessly clean. (See 10 things to do in London...
...Seven of Oxford's 38 colleges, including Queen's, founded in 1341, and Keble, a neo-Gothic pile built in the late 1800s, offer accommodation to the traveling public. Available rooms are mostly singles or twin share, although Keble offers a few family suites sleeping three. A full English breakfast (or a less gut-busting muesli-and-yoghurt option) is thrown in, and you could very well be enjoying it on trestle tables in a centuries-old, wood-paneled dining hall, under the stern gaze of portraits of college worthies. Afterward, you're free to stroll around your adopted college...