Word: concealer
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That will take some doing. Across China's capital last week, officials went to extraordinary lengths to conceal SARS patients from WHO inspectors. A doctor at the No. 309 People's Liberation Army Hospital says 46 patients were pulled out of their beds and moved to a hotel on the hospital grounds just before the WHO team got there. At the No. 302 People's Liberation Army Hospital, where two wards had been filled to capacity, only a handful of the ailing were on site for the WHO visit...
...Like their big-city counterparts, provincial doctors have also succumbed to political pressure to conceal information about the dangers of the virus. At a secret meeting last Wednesday overheard by a TIME reporter, Dr. Zhang Hanwei, the director of the Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital in Taiyuan, began his speech by berating the 40 or so embattled doctors gathered before him. Other regions afflicted by SARS were reporting only a 4% mortality rate. But Shanxi, then with an official tally of 82 cases and 7 deaths, was reporting an 8.5% death rate. "The government is very unsatisfied with these numbers...
...Tunnels and sewers conceal Iraqi soldiers and arms...
Bookstores are a luxury, really, that everyone has the right and the ability to enjoy. Browsing the aisles, scanning the myriad titles, running admiring fingers over the colorful glossy covers that conceal treasures of literature and poetry and Romance for Dummies, turning the pages of a crisp New Yorker and lounging in the cafe with a latte and a brand-new copy of The Secret History—these are the essences of a luxury that most of us (sadly, unfortunately, tragically) never take advantage of. There’s something infinitely tempting and tantalizing about a new book?...
...preregistration to senior gift volunteers, and it was presented to the Faculty on Tuesday as the main motivation for preregistration. “The primary goal is to improve instruction,” Wolcowitz told the Faculty. But just as a company’s slogan can aim to conceal its greatest weakness, Wolcowitz’s claim that undergraduates are the reason for preregistration rang hollow to many of the faculty in attendance Tuesday...