For 118 days, when the world was reduced to what could be heard and said and done while handcuffed and chained with three other men in a cold, paint-peeling, eternally gloomy, 10-by-12-foot room.

NPR: All Beings Are Interconnected

After days of skiing alone, in extreme cold, these differences disappear and men and women have to deal with the same issues.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The Springboks arrived at the same venue with an under-strength side, starting with three new caps, two more on the bench, plus four other men who had been left out in the cold since choosing to play their club rugby outside South Africa.

BBC: Wales fail to buck losing trend against Boks

On a cold, wet night in January, I met two young Iraqi men in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel, in central Baghdad.

NEWYORKER: Betrayed

The admitted secret agents were eventually flown to Austria, where, in a scene reminiscent of a Cold War spy drama, they were swapped on a Vienna airport tarmac for four men who had been imprisoned in Russia, most on charges of spying for the West.

WSJ: Russian Spy Ring Aimed to Make Children Agents

Like many of the day spas in the area, the men- and women-only treatment rooms offer inexpensive scrubs, steams, saunas, cold and hot pools.

BBC: Ethnic Los Angeles

Young and old, men and women worked from sun up to sun down, through the summer heat and bitterly cold winter.

CNN: The story of Yaojin: Rebuilding a quake village

Worse still, cold air and damp courts take the sting out of his topspin forehand and make him vulnerable, especially against men who have lots of firepower.

WSJ: Rafael Nadal Calls French Open Scheduling 'a Joke'