Hezbollah has vowed to destroy Israel. Iran, whose president would like to see Israel wiped of "the face of the planet," is seeking nuclear weapons. North Korea apparently already has them. Hugo Chavez is doing his best to recast Latin America in his image and undermine Western-style capitalism and democracy. The world, in a phrase, appears to have learned nothing from all its past conflicts and is going to pot. But, hey, there are other things to worry about. Take, for instance, the international sink and faucet problem. What, you've never heard of it? Impossible. Well, perhaps you've never heard of it, but surely you or someone you know has experienced it.

The entirely uncessary and utterly avoidable problem is this: Across the world ingenious interior designers cannot seem to give people with dirty hands the space they need to comfortably clean them. I have been in more than three dozen countries and I can say that in every single one of them I have found large sinks. Large sinks are a luxory, a nice, if superfluous thing. But for such sinks to be useful, they must not merely be eye candy. After all, a sink's purpose ought to be to

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