So the Gaullists, temporarily led by the young and ambitious Nicolas Sarkozy, the party's secretary-general, find themselves squeezed between Mr Pasqua's Europhobes, currently attracting 10-12% of the vote, and Mr Bayrou's Euro-federalists with 8-9%, leaving the main Gaullist-Liberal Democratic list with a wretched 17-20%.

ECONOMIST: France

I'd included phones in the rooms, but had forgotten the front desk console and main switchboard system: add twenty-five thousand dollars to the list to allow for that.

FORBES: What Does It Take To Start A Hotel?

Both Kurdish leaders sound happy to join a coalition government in Baghdad, with either the main Islamist-inclined Shia alliance or with a more secular-inclined list headed by the interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi.

ECONOMIST: Iraq's Kurds

High ownership costs are a main reason why only one hybrid--the Toyota Prius--made our list.

FORBES: Vehicles

The Mayo Clinic's two main hospitals in Rochester--Rochester Methodist Hospital (No. 3 on our list) and St.

FORBES

Anyone who listened to the main sessions in Davos could tell you the top two items now on the to-do list for European leaders: fixing the eurozone's financial firewall and finally sealing the deal on Greece.

BBC: Davos 2012: The unfinished and the unmentionable

Breaking those down: Explore is a compiled list of Evernote-suggested recipes, My Cookbook stores clipped recipes from the main Evernote app and around the web, Restaurants lets you discover and bookmark places to eat (you can even make OpenTable reservations) and My Meals is essentially a food journal.

ENGADGET: Evernote Food 2.0 for Android offers revamped UI, more ways to document your dietary obsessions

The initial police charge-sheet last year did not list a single politician, and attempts were made to oust the main investigator.

ECONOMIST: India