On Monday night, I took a private limo to the HELP Women's Shelter, one of the city's central intake centers for single women.

WSJ: One Night in the HELP Women's Shelter

This was to allow them to qualify for the first intake into the single currency, an achievement many pundits considered impossible given the country's past extravagances.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Its international power arm - which serves utilities, governments, armed forces and major industrial customers with power plants ranging from 10 megawatts to 100 megawatts on a single site - saw order intake below a year earlier.

BBC: Aggreko shares down on profit warning

His lifetime consumption of tobacco is a single puff on a cigarette, his only alcohol intake a glass of champagne once a year.

FORBES: The Centenarian Diet