Take, for example, the story of 51-year-old Chinese manSun Jifa, who lost both of his arms in an explosion and built his own bionic hands out of scrap metal.
Named after the Aesop fable in which the sun persuades a man to take off his coat after the North Wind fails to do so, the policy sought to engage the North.
According to Britain's biggest selling newspaper, The Sun, the man it urged millions of Britons to vote for at the last election is threatening to destroy the country's economy by taking it into the single European currency.