We wouldn't tolerate our parks being swamped by human sewage, but beaches are closed a lot in our country.

The stand out piece by Valentino was an over the top beige hat adorned with a feather like wide brim that swamped the models heads.

Consumers are provided with precious little information through schools, libraries, or health campaigns instead, they are swamped with disinformation through advertising. Conditions for children are particularly alarming.

What he says feels right to his followers, because it conforms to their prejudices. And the Internet, having swamped the quality press, feeds and reinforces those prejudices, making it more difficult to distinguish the truth from lies.

Nicolas Sarkozy s election in France has at least something to do with similar feelings. But anxieties about being swamped by foreigners and dominated by outside powers are more acute in smaller countries, whose political elites seem particularly impotent.

In short, the medium term benefits that emerging economies could receive from faster growth in the US are now being swamped by short term risks generated by the capital tsunami, as Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has called it.

And the reason why they have to go underground is that, if you did this experiment on the surface of the Earth, the same experiment would be swamped by signals that could be created by things like cosmic rays, ambient radio activity, even our own bodies. You might not believe it, but even our own bodies are radioactive enough to disturb this experiment.

By the end of the 19th century, however, Germany, with much lower wages levels, had overtaken England in steel production, and was clearly dominant in the new technologies of electrical goods, chemicals, and dyes, as well as in many aspects of fine engineering. But Germany also swamped world s markets with mass consumption goods cheaper musical instruments than the traditional makers in France or Italy could produce, and lithographic prints used for Christmas cards and seaside postcards.