Scottish poet Robert Burns, ploughing his field, accidentally destroyed the nest that a mouse had carefully prepared in anticipation of winter. Reflecting, Burns left us the well-known phrase “best-laid plans”: You saw the fields laid bare and empty, and weary winter coming fast,And cozy here, beneath the blast, you thought to dwell,Till crash! The cruel plough passed out through your cell.But Mouse, you are not alone in proving foresight may be vain:The best-laid schemes of mice and men go...