2023年3月9日星期四

defy, covert/undercover, racial disparity, cartography, a political lift. with significant disparities by ethnicity, race.

As progress on heart health stalls, more young adults are at risk

Hypertension, diabetes, obesity are rising among 20- to 44-year-olds, say researchers, with significant disparities by ethnicity, race.

Four Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces fighters take their positions at the defense wall of Gweiran Prison, in Hasakah, northeast Syria.

Daily Comment

ISIS After the American Strike

For an indication of the terrorist group’s future, look to its recent past.

By Dexter Filkins

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on the January jobs report during an event in the State Dining Room of the White House on February 4, 2022, in Washington, D.C. The U.S. economy gained an additional 467,000 new jobs in January despite contending with a severe COVID surge.

Our Columnists

How the Economy Defied Omicron to Add Nearly Half a Million Jobs

More people worked from home, but employers kept hiring, giving the Biden Administration a political lift.

By John Cassidy

A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories

By NEIL MacFARQUHAR

Using both conventional media and covert channels, the Kremlin relies on disinformation to create doubt, fear and discord in Europe and the United States.

Several states have placed restrictions on undercover investigations into cruelty.

Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime

By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.

States are restricting undercover operations by activists in response to exposés that industry groups say have led to unfair scrutiny.

New York’s Undercover Officers Under Strain

Detective Debra Lawson worked as an undercover police officer in the firearms unit.

By AL BAKER and JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN 1:54 PM ET

Undercover officers face the dangers of their assignments among staffing cuts and a racial disparity in their ranks.

Covert policeman 'defied' bosses

An undercover policeman whose actions led to the collapse of a trial of environmental protesters had "defied" management instructions, a report says.

Peruvian Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel for Literature
Defying rumors that the prize would go to a poet, the Nobel committee awarded Mario Vargas Llosa the Nobel for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."

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[形]((限定))秘密の［に行う］, 内密の, （特に）スパイ活動［秘密調査］に従事する

an undercover scheme
陰謀

an undercover police officer
覆面警官

an undercover man ［agent］
秘密捜査［調査］員（産業スパイなど）

go undercover
秘密捜査員になる.

Definition of undercover

adjective

(of a person or their activities) involved in or involving secret work within a community or organization, especially for the purposes of police investigation or espionage:an undercover police operation