Word: mousetrap
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...wife, Queen Mata'aho, and hand-knitted by the Queen herself; let's have a round of applause for them both! From the Sedgemoor district council in Somerset - how about this? - a ton of peat! A nickel-silvered - oh, this is cute - a nickel-silvered mousetrap in a diamante-jeweled presentation case from West Country Councillor Vernon Gould! One complete bedroom set from Canada! Two additional beds! Three engineering apprenticeships donated by the Greater Manchester Council! Western boots for Charles, Western chaps for Diana, both from Texas and both from Anne Arm strong, the former American ambassador...
...development of the M-l has ruled the Pentagon since the end of World War II. In part, it reflects the Pentagon emphasis on preparing for a war of massed firepower along conventional front lines in Europe. More important, military reformers charge, the Pentagon has fallen into a "goldplated mousetrap" of always holding out for the final, supremely costly "last 10%" in technology that might give a weapon an unconquerable edge in battle. Even some military officers agree with this criticism. Says retiring Major General Volney Warner, chief of U.S. Readiness Command: "We have been captives of technology. There...
Nearly half a century ago, August Dvorak, a professor of statistics at the University of Washington, introduced his Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, which groups and centralizes commonly used letters. Typists who mastered it increased their speed, but it never caught on. Dvorak once mused: "If a man makes a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to his door, but Emerson didn't say how long it would take." It took too long for Dvorak: he died...
...melancholy meditation on adulteries among the middle classes. The West End can play up raunch (Wot' No Pyjamas! and-yes, in its tenth year-No Sex Please- We 're British) as well as tradition (yes, going strong and apparently about to enter the second millennium, The Mousetrap) while also accommodating experiment. A radical theater company has been performing Accidental Death of an Anarchist just off Leicester Square, and the R.S.C. has rented a nearby theater for Educating Rita, a lively comedy in which cultures get crossed like phone wires...
Building a better mousetrap was too prosaic for Boston-born Veterinarian Henry Foster. Instead, he built a better mouse-millions of them. Thirty years ago, Foster, whose degree came from a nonaccredited school in Massachusetts, paid $1,300 for some traps and pens from an abandoned Maryland rat farm, shipped them to Boston and went into business as Charles River Breeding Laboratories, Inc. Today Charles River, located on a 60-acre spread in Wilmington, Mass., is the world's largest supplier of animals for scientific research. In 1979 the firm netted $3 million on sales of $30 million...