He genuinely likes fixing plumbing messes, for one thing, and despite the worst recession he has seen, 'I'm still excited to get up and go to work every day, ' he says.

The highway is frequently blocked by rockfalls, most of which can be cleared in days, but work was still in progress at Attabad in mid-March 2010.

Motivation can be defined as an impulse to channel energy and action toward a specific goal.

This is designed to channel water underground at high pressure, and will go into natural-gas-drilling equipment.

Lawmakers could, of course, decide that there are other ways than buying up mortgages to unclog credit in financial markets.