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...guess is that the indomitable Simpson case will prevail. After all, it has enjoyed the highest media saturation of any story since the Gulf War, and that affair involved over a half-million good guys, a pretty formidable villain (complete with evil, soup-strainer moustache and ominous-sounding name) and the deaths of more than 100,000 of the bad guy's under-lings. So death for death, the Simpson case is probably the most potent media monopolizer the world has ever known...
Pour the heated water onto the leaves. The tea should be ready for serving in about five minutes. Use a strainer to keep the leaves...
...that bane of parents and teachers alike, the high-IQ underachiever, a school with strong discipline and a challenging academic program. The counselors often telephone a school, describe the student and ask whether he or she sounds desirable enough to justify formal application. "We try to be a strainer," says Parsons, adding: "Year after year, schools have to see and interview dozens of youngsters trooping through their campuses, who will never get in. We can alleviate a lot of heartache. Parents, instead of traveling to a dozen schools, ten of which are not what they need, now deal with...
...Ardagh chalice did not have a paten or strainer with...
...prevent amateur fortune hunters from scouring the ruins before experts from Dublin's National Museum got there, the Irish government invoked the Official Secrets Act and declared a 25-sq.-mi. zone around Killenaule a protected area. The chalice, paten and strainer, when found, were covered with a beaten bronze bowl; experts presume that monks had deliberately hidden them in the bog, probably to protect them from marauding Irishmen or even Vikings...