The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

O, old Incontinent, dost not thou shame

The biological role of SPO in adult saliva is considered to be the breakdown of H 2 O 2 produced by dental microflora, simultaneously protecting teeth and producing antibacterial hypothiocyanate from thiocyanate; it has been demonstrated that the major form of enzymatic H 2 O 2 consumption in normal human tracheal secretions is due to SPO [43 ].

I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.