The Fed chief expressed empathy with the challenges of cutting government deficits while trying to promote growth, acknowledging the complex challenge facing policymakers, but renewed his push for Congress to pick up the ball and run with it after the Fed has spent three years trying to grease the wheels of recovery.

FORBES: Bernanke Warns Congress: More Sluggish Job Growth Ahead

Ruts cut by hundreds of years of wagon wheels can be seen in the stone gateways of forts.

BBC: Walking Hadrian��s Wall

Twenty years ago, the wheels of rail privatisation were set in motion.

BBC: Have train fares gone up or down since British Rail?

French adolescents have for years been deprived of the simple pleasure of riding about on four wheels, and if they seem to find an excessive number of military missions for themselves, all of which involve riding down the boulevards and cheering, nobody can blame them.

NPR: Excerpt: 'World War II Writings'

The wheels of Italian justice grind slowly: the trial of his co-defendants took four years from indictment to verdict.

ECONOMIST: An illegitimate fix