Even so, in the wilder parts of Mexico, the guerrillas' time may not yet be past.

ECONOMIST: Mexico

The roll call so far includes Demi Moore, Madonna, Gene Wilder, Sir Elton John and Michael Douglas.

BBC: Cleese has made a string of recent film cameos

Germany looks wilful partly because Ms Merkel has been so busy taming some of Mr Sarkozy's wilder ideas.

ECONOMIST: Angela Merkel

Pernick and Wilder chart this migration over the past half decade or so by tracking several trends, including public and private sector investment, installed solar and wind capacity and similar signs of scale.

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Yeah, it's a crazy story, and it gets even wilder: Palm says Company C never signed an NDA, so it's more than likely we'll eventually find out who it was.

ENGADGET: HP bought Palm after a five-company bidding war