• We will release every vulture that's in that trap today and re-bait it in preparations for Tuesday's attempt.

    NPR: NASA Sets New Discovery Launch Date for July 4

  • "It's still called 'trap-shooting' and the targets are called 'clay pigeons, '" he says, running out of breath as his face flushes red.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • At a time when cyber espionage by Russia and China is one of the greatest threats to U.S. national security today, Intel is helping build a billion-dollar honey trap (aka Skolkovo) for U.S. companies in Russia.

    FORBES: Intel's McAfee Deal: A National Security Nightmare

  • Here's an off-the-rack sports car with lateral adhesion in the range of 1 g, a car that hits 60 mph in 4 seconds (the 394-horsepower Carrera S with the dual-clutch PDK gearbox), a car that trips the trap lights in about 12 seconds and decelerates from 60 mph to 0 in about 100 feet.

    WSJ: 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera S Review: A Magnificent First Stab | Rumble Seat by Dan Neil

  • See, what people need to know in this election, when it comes to the people Barack meets, he has a mind like a steel trap -- Warren's seen it. (Laughter.) He might not remember your name, but if he's had a few minutes and a decent conversation, he will never forget your story.

    WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at a Campaign Event

  • Or merely to the trapped animal's unconscious feelings of respect for a well-made trap and a desire not to disappoint the person who went to so much trouble to set it...

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'

  • Blackpool were almost level in the blink of an eye as Phillips sprung Birmingham's offside trap to meet Adam's whipped free-kick but he could only glance his header wastefully wide.

    BBC: Blackpool 1-2 Birmingham

  • Bagehot contemplated playing agent provocateur, trawling Bournemouth's bars to see whether he could trap some befuddled ruddy-faced delegate into some horrific racial slur.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • Dr Bermel's proposed trap is a thin sheet of tungsten (a heat-resistant metal) that has been processed in quite a complicated way.

    ECONOMIST: Solar power

  • Five minutes after the break, Lampard's chipped through-ball found the Frenchman, who beat the offside trap on the left and bore down on goal before rifling his shot past James and into the roof of the net from a tight-angle.

    BBC: Portsmouth 0-5 Chelsea

  • "It's a trap door, " Eric Abraham, Leon's 36-year-old son, told me.

    WSJ: Jeweler Under Siege

  • Lindsay Lohan's youngest fans know her as both the freckle-faced girl from The Parent Trap...and an out-of-control young woman in trouble with the law.

    CNN: Having the sex talk: Is your tween too sexy too soon?

  • But Sackey, one of nine Wasps players named in England manager Martin Johnson's 32-man elite squad, does not expect McGeechan to fall into the trap of selecting on the basis of familiarity.

    BBC: No Wasps bias for Lions - Sackey

  • And Europe's housing markets are caught in an unenviable trap because so many households have variable-rate mortgages.

    ECONOMIST: Finance

  • Bent should have made it 2-0 when he beat the offside trap to collect Gareth Barry's superb throughball, but he slipped after rounding Wiese and fired wide.

    CNN: Terry gives England historic Berlin victory

  • Over the past ten months, and in accelerating numbers in the past few days, over 40 Palestinians have been the victims of Israel's policy of picking off by missile attack, sniper-fire or booby trap people it says orchestrate terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians.

    ECONOMIST: A policy of death | The

  • While some hospital executives have commendably used a hospital chain's large size to standardize best practices, others have fallen into the age-old management trap of detaching themselves from the front lines and becoming dangerously out of touch with their own staff.

    CNN: Is your hospital hurting you?

  • It's a "poverty trap" that works just like the severe marriage penalties for the lower-income classes.

    CNN: Mickelson has a point on taxes

  • "The principle of Universal Credit is sound but our research has found the actual roll-out could unintentionally trap people in poverty and hardship, " the organisation's chief executive Julia Unwin said.

    BBC: Queue outside a Jobcentre Plus

  • It can be a trap when things go well at first, and there's a loss of humility -- but that's my fault for not stopping that.

    FORBES: Creative destruction 101

  • While this helps to contain inflation in an import-dependent economy, further rapid capital inflows could trap Manila in a vise that's increasingly common in developing Asia rapid currency appreciation (which would argue for lower interest rates to deter excess capital inflows) versus mounting asset inflation (which would require higher interest rates).

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Manila Makes the Upgrade

  • Jerome had a chance to equalise when he beat Blackburn's offside trap to latch onto a through ball but he fired wide from the corner of the six-yard box.

    BBC: CHOOSE A SPORT

  • Nuneaton's Gary Jones was denied early on by the Southport offside trap as the visitors struggled to pierce a well-marshalled defence.

    BBC: Southport 1-0 Nuneaton

  • The guru who got a first-term U.S. senator with a middle name of Hussein elected president was pushed yesterday through a trap door into a much different world.

    FORBES: Obama's Cold Heart Might Be A Good Thing

  • It was Cesar to the rescue when he chased out of goal to parry Miller's attempt at a chip, but the in-form Scotland striker ought to have scored after beating the offside trap.

    BBC: Rangers 1-1 Valencia

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