Word: hides
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Kkeeping secrets is an inherently suspect activity. Who would keep things secret unless there were something to hide? However, the United States has traditionally believed that exercising one's right to privacy should not incur suspicion, any more than taking the Fifth and refusing to testify should be taken as an admission of guilt. Although the right to privacy is not explicitly protected in the Bill of Rights, the U.S. has long recognized an individual's right to keep things hidden from public view...
...seems to be changing its mind. New techniques of encryption--the making of codes--allow personal computers to encode documents in ways that are difficult or sometimes impossible for the most advanced super computers to crack. These technologies, for the first time in recent memory, allow private individuals to hide their documents from government view. In response, the Clinton Administration has proposed new means of restricting the right to privacy...
...communication makes the administration's argument seem ludicrous. Think how many criminals have communicated by word of mouth: why don't we force everyone to wear a hidden microphone? Apparently, law-abiding citizens would never object to having other people listen to what they say-unless they needed to hide something...
That skinny, broad-shouldered, androgynous specimen on your cover--do you call that a woman [THE SEXES, March 8]? She obviously lacks subcutaneous fat, resulting in protruding neck tendons, bulging veins on forearms and wrists, and mammary glands, if any, that are all too easy to hide. Is that the truth about a woman's body? What an anatomical heresy! The only feminine detail I could discover, as a gynecologist, was the makeup on the eyelashes. PETER J. CARPENTIER, M.D. Antwerp, Belgium...
...Didn't she hide stuff in her panties...