It may sound like a crazy idea, but Singapore, a tiny island country whose population would have no place to go in the event of a wide-scale evacuation, is giving buried nukes a closer look.

FORBES: Singapore Considers Underground Nuclear Reactors

And, in terms of scale alone, a department-wide IT initiative in government can dwarf those in the private sector.

FORBES: Technology Adoption Slower, But Certain In Government -- And For Good Reason

It also said that there would be a wide scale evaluation of the impact in the area, with post-mortem examinations of badgers, and detailed investigation of every cattle TB incident.

BBC: A badger

Prosecutors say Mr. Smith and Mr. Halloran tried to bribe Republican officials into giving Mr. Smith a spot on the party's ticket for mayor, in a wide-ranging plot that eventually ensnared half a dozen New York politicians and has raised questions about the scale of corruption in Albany.

WSJ: Politicians Plead Not Guilty

This comes after weeks of spotty polling, in which wide-scale power outages and destruction made it difficult to find a truly random opinion sample.

CNN: Hurricanes complicate election projections

Foreign monitors judged the poll transparent enough to exclude the possibility of rigging on a scale wide enough to put Mr Bouteflika's majority in doubt.

ECONOMIST: An Arab state slouches towards democracy

One picture from that Greenpeace link in particular says it all: a region of tropical Sumatran forest cleared with as much wide-scale devastation as if a tsunami had taken out every last tree.

FORBES: Japan's Unknown Ecological Tragedy

The government is writing into the legislation itself a requirement for it to carry out a wide-scale publicity campaign to ensure that every member of the public and everyone coming to live in Wales is aware that unless they opt out, they will have deemed their consent for their organs to be donated.

BBC: Real life and law making collide