Word: concealer
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...technological shifts haven’t quite produced a harmonious global village. The ancient Greeks branded as “barbarians” those whose languages sounded to them like “bar bar bar” gibberish, and to many Westerners, foreign scripts still seem to conceal nasty secrets, and spoken gutturals and trills provoke suspicion. In this environment of information whose instant availability is not matched by intelligibility, translators have become some of the most powerful people in our societies, seeming to carry news of secrets being told behind our backs. The more individual streams of information...
...minds of most kids, anxious ones would rather skip the camp than risk embarrassment. Some extremely anxious children worry incessantly about things beyond their control, such as earthquakes, nuclear war and sars, inflating in their minds the danger to themselves and their families. Worse, sufferers feel compelled to conceal their fears from everyone and often grow into depressed teens. "Anxious children are too rarely brought to us," says clinical psychologist Dr. Paula Barrett, director of Pathways Health and Research Centre in Brisbane, "so we've started going to them...
During the third week of stinging testimony by government witnesses, the Martha Stewart case reached a dramatic high point with the emotional testimony of her longtime secretary, Ann Armstrong. The feds accuse Stewart of conspiring with her stockbroker (and co-defendant) Peter Bacanovic to conceal her dumping of ImClone Systems stock in December 2001 after getting an inside tip. Her secretary burst into sobs before recounting how Stewart doctored a phone message from Bacanovic that Armstrong had taken--implying an attempted cover-up. According to the government, Stewart lied when she later denied knowledge of the phone-log entries...
...detect the cell guns and other "improvised explosive devices," such as fake calculators, cameras, laptops and PDAs. To speed your next security check, you may want to leave some of those gadgets behind, along with your tool kit. Says a senior U.S. law-enforcement official: "Even a screwdriver could conceal a shotgun shell in a hollowed-out handle...
...story not just of one unfortunate girl but of a nation besieged by autocratic theocracy. The film roams Kabul's streets for vignettes of the regime's depredations. When a Taliban inspector arrives at a hospital where a female doctor is treating an old man, the doctor must conceal herself by quickly donning a burqa and claiming she is the wife of her patient...