Like drunken sailors reaching to alamp post for support, Sarkozy and Merkel have reached out to yet another tax as a method of propping up the eurozone system.
But some of our favorite designs are the ones that do social good, like Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun -- a portable solar-powered lamp that's being distributed to people who live without electricity worldwide.
Films and series about Edwardian upper caste manners which portray the genteels uncharitably are boring, like the steady, unending (until one turns the switch off) hum of a fluorescent lamp.