Word: coding
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...Religion is also a hot topic on the airwaves. In China's eastern Fujian province, a handful of radio programs discuss family values and declining morality among today's youth. But anyone steeped in Christian code words recognizes that the show is little more than a thinly veiled religious sermon?and the authorities either haven't caught on or think the program is too innocuous to shut down. "Loving your neighbor is very important," says one caller to a Xiamen city radio show. "We must all remember that." In Indonesia, where the Muslim majority isn't forced to hide...
...when necessary, use words." ("Be someone's friend, not an Amway salesman," paraphrases one veteran.) But the sometimes clandestine status can breed bad habits. Visa bans turn many Evangelicals, usually straightforward to a fault, into truth stretchers, if only at the customs desk. They use encrypted e-mail and code words or smuggle Bibles. "Some," says a Christian minister in Morocco, "seem to have been inspired by the book of James, verse 007." It is not really their fault, says the leader of one mission, contending, "It should not be dangerous for a person to move to a different country...
...Robert," the days of waiting appeared to be over. For months the globetrotting evangelist had kept a low profile, waiting for his latest chosen mission field, Iraq, to open up. He had lived quietly in a nearby capital, referring to Iraq by a code name. But after Baghdad's liberation, Robert was ready to roll. He planned to enter Iraq with a secular humanitarian team--a kind of traveling tentmaker--but assumed that his workers could come in later on their own, printing up Arabic-language tracts in anticipation. Not all missionaries supported the Iraq war, but Robert identified personally...
Dershowitz chairs the HLS group, called the Committee on Healthy Diversity, which was formed after the Black Law Students Association called for the school to adopt a code to protect students from racial insensitivity...
Harvard, MIT and the Cambridge-based Whitehead Institute announced last Thursday a sweeping new biomedical research center aimed at harnessing the recently-revealed code of the human genome for clinical ends...