According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

The object of the game is to move the smiley face over the preset board, in doing so removing the green squares and ending up at the exit […]

Rather than leading the world in glamour and style, the majority of continentals seem to have been left behind in an era when proto-mullets, moonwalk loafers and white socks were right up there with Pac Man and rollerblades.

Irwin's friend Chris White reflected on a friendship that began in 1975. . . . Full of beans, full of life, gung-ho, fearless, tenacious at anything he attempted.