Make a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door.

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Contrary to the famous saying, if you build a better mouse trap the world will not beat a path to your door.

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Perez played "Mouse Trap" a lot as a kid -- kind of.

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At this annual celebration of DIY culture, of course this would appear: a scaled-up version of "Mouse Trap, " the Hasbro game bent on marbles zigging through a plastic labyrinth.

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Be it a better mouse trap or a newly crafted strategic policy built in an era of deep and painful cuts in military spending, the budget necessities facing all Americans demand a level of frugality not seen during the lifetimes of many of those now in uniform.

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Like a mouse in a glue trap?

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Its role in the game was to trap a plastic mouse.

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