Adam Davidson What we learned from teetering on the fiscal cliff

Writer Osha Gray Davidson relates that a number of island cultures trace their origins to the sea turtle.

Ms Davidson added 'I gather the staff apparently tried to remove the garments from sale after she had left which is just as well.'

Davidson, Turtle culture , draft unpublished chapter, Fire in the Turtle House The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean, Public Affairs NY, 2001.

Davidson v. Canada, case No. 359 1989, Views adopted 31 March 1993, and Länsman v. Finland case No. 671 995, Views adopted on 30 October 1996.

Ms Davidson, 33, who lives in the Kent town, said 'How disgusting to think someone is going to take home knickers that another person has been wearing and they haven't been cleaned.'

A mother of two, Jenny Davidson, who was in the shop at the time, said after trying on the underwear the mystery woman 'got dressed again and walked out of the store without buying anything.'

It's the end of 2012, and the US political system is tied in knots over next year's fiscal cliff a budget impasse that can only be solved with bipartisan agreement. Adam Davidson, cohost of Planet Money, shares surprising data that shows how it might just be solved.