Word: veiled
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...Amazon founder Jeff Bezos isn't done yet. Behind a smothering veil of secrecy, he's setting up a new search company in Palo Alto, Calif., called A9.com "All I can tell you is that we're working on some interesting things that we simply cannot talk about at this point," says Bezos. The scuttlebutt is that A9 will be focused on product search, so it will compete less with Google than with Froogle--a relatively small slice of the search market but potentially the richest. Amazon--which is still glowing from its first profitable nonholiday quarter ever--has been...
Hong Kong's restaurateurs would rather draw a veil over the past 12 months. The effects of SARS on the domestic and tourist markets saw many a steel shutter come down for good. Hundreds of staff were laid off (or worked unpaid). And at the height of the outbreak, going out for a meal was like visiting a clinic: a sober experience of sterile swabs and face masks. The arrival of an international culinary superstar and the continuing emergence of local ones are therefore a much needed boost for the city's recovering dining scene...
...don’t want to seem like some prude who hates or fears sex and the female body. I think it is important to encourage alternative expressions of female empowerment. Wearing a bikini can be liberating. But the same can be said about donning a veil...
...authorities] charge us? They don't charge us with anything, but they make our lives difficult." Norman Ali Khalaf, 41, a chubby man with a goatee, is a biology teacher at the school and head of the local Muslim political party FAKT. His Egyptian wife, Ola, dons neither a veil nor a head scarf. She serves guests sweet Arabic tea and fresh dates from Saudi Arabia. The couple's 5-year-old daughter, Nora, bounces around the room speaking perfect German and watching American cartoons on TV. Khalaf says municipal authorities are exaggerating the problem. He was born in Saarbr...
Halloween was part of the traditional pre-Christian cycle of festivals in many different parts of Europe. The Church tried to tame it in a variety of ways, but the idea that it is a time when the veil between our world and the Otherworld is especially thin and the two can communicate persists. Witches were often accused of participating in sabbats on this date, and certainly modern witches have embraced the occasion as well...