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Susan Rice sought the name of at least one Trump official in an intelligence report in the months between Election Day and Donald Trump’s inauguration, writes The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.

Small tumours concealed in the adrenal gland are “unmasked” in early‪#‎pregnancy‬, when a sudden surge of hormones fires them into life, leading to raised ‪#‎bloodpressure‬ and causing risk to patients.

New research leaves tumours with nowhere to hide

Hidden tumours that cause potentially fatal high blood pressure but lurk undetected in the body until pregnancy have been discovered by a Cambridge medical team.

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Viktor Orban, Hungary’s combative prime minister, has long revelled in the image of a maverick defending his country’s national interests from the overmighty European Union. Now, as Hungary finds itself on the frontline of Europe’s evolving migration crisis, Mr Orban has found a new way to stick it to the bureaucrats of Brussels: by enforcing their law to the letter http://econ.st/1hKxejV

Europe is finally confronting the migrant crisis

VIKTOR ORBAN, Hungary’s combative prime minister, has long revelled in the image of a maverick defending his country’s national interests from the overmighty...

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In China, Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattering Google

China's shanzhai山寨 enthusiasts are at it again, using imitation to pay tribute to Google.

Chinese Data Mask Depth of Slowdown, Executives Say

By KEITH BRADSHER

Corporate executives and economists say officials in some Chinese cities and provinces are falsifying statistics to mask the extent of the downturn.

Wall St. Helped Greece to Mask Debt Fueling Europe’s Crisis
By LOUISE STORY, LANDON THOMAS Jr. and NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
Wall Street did not create Europe’s debt problem, but bankers enabled Greece and others to borrow beyond their means, in deals that were perfectly legal.

Model Liskula Cohen sues Google over blogger's 'skank' comment
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USABY JOSE MARTINEZ A Vogue model is suing Google in an attempt to unmask the blogger who trashed her as a "skank" and an "old hag" on a Web site devoted to ...



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Gorgon

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Gorgon, carved marble mask of the early 6th century ; in the Acropolis Museum, Athens (credit: Alinari/Art Resource, New York)

One of three monsters in Greek mythology, the most famous of which was Medusa. According to Hesiod, the three Gorgons were daughters of the sea god Phorcys. Another tradition held that they were created by the earth goddess, Gaea, to aid her sons, the Titans, in their struggle with the gods. Classical art depicts them as winged females with snakes for hair.

simony (SY-muh-nee, SIM-)

noun: Profiting from holy things, especially buying and selling of holy positions and pardons.

Etymology
After Simon Magus, Samaritan sorcerer in Bible, who wanted to buy spiritual powers -- the ability of transferring the "Holy Spirit" by putting hands on someone -- from Peter.

Usage
"A related theme -- the preacher or moraliser unmasked -- has been richly illustrated in recent years by examples from real life: a string of corrupt American televangelists, self-appointed 'men of God', who revelled in greed, lust and simony, the very things they were thought to be railing against." — Gilchrist; The Economist (London, UK); Nov 19, 1994.

ˈrɛv(ə)l/
verb

past tense: revelled; past participle: revelled

1. enjoy oneself in a lively and noisy way, especially with drinking and dancing.

   "a night of drunken revelling"

   • gain great pleasure from (a situation).

     "Bill said he was secretly revelling in his new-found fame"

skank
n.

1. A rhythmic dance performed to reggae or ska music, characterized by bending forward, raising the knees, and extending the hands.
2. Disgusting or vulgar matter; filth.
3. One who is disgustingly foul or filthy and often considered sexually promiscuous. Used especially of a woman or girl.

intr.v., skanked, skank·ing, skanks.
To dance the skank.

[Of Jamaican origin.]

skanky skank'y adj.


hag

1. An old woman considered ugly or frightful.
2. 1. A witch; a sorceress.
   2. Obsolete. A female demon.
3. A hagfish.

[Middle English hagge, perhaps short for Old English hægtesse, witch.]

mask
v., masked, mask·ing, masks. v.tr.

1. To cover with a decorative or protective mask.
2. To make indistinct or blurred to the senses: spices that mask the strong flavor of the meat.
3. To cover in order to conceal, protect, or disguise. See synonyms at disguise.
4. To block the view of: Undergrowth masked the entrance to the cave.
5. To cover (a part of a photographic film) by the application of an opaque border.
6. Chemistry. To prevent (an atom or a group of atoms) from taking part in a normal reaction.

un·mask (ŭn-măsk')

v., -masked, -mask·ing, -masks. v.tr.

1. To remove a mask from.
2. To disclose the true character of; expose.

v.intr.
To remove one's mask.