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Thank you for the helpful advice on how to avoid dangerous and even deadly situations presented in "How to Get Out Alive" [May 2]. Because of reading it, I will be more likely to notice evacuation diagrams, especially on airplanes and in other places that are not familiar...
Office computers may be monitored without your knowledge, so avoid carrying out personal transactions on those machines...
...Avoid the sections of the river that run parallel to the noisy, traffic-clogged autobahn, and stick instead with havens like the flat, unpaved trail that skirts the northern edge of Dillingen, a factory town of roughly 18,000 in Germany's southwest. Despite the proximity of urban development (Munich is just a 45-minute drive away), the area is rich in wildlife. Look out for hungry ducks and other fowl dive-bombing a river teeming with fish, plus the occasional huntsman, struggling to get an overexcited dog to heel...
...twine, a dirt-covered face scabrous with pellagra that looked about fifty years old shrunk back into the shadows of a hood made from grey sackcloth, like a medieval leper," he writes. The woman, who was in fact only 28, had crossed the border in a final effort to avoid starvation. As a prisoner, she would be sent back to North Korea, to face possible torture or even death in a labor camp. Becker bargained with the shopkeeper for her freedom, ultimately paying about $24?"the market price for a North Korean life...
...border against barbarian hordes to the north - and of vital strategic importance to contending armies during the two World Wars - the Danube is now a more lighthearted place. On any given Sunday, whole stretches of it are abuzz with dog walkers and horse riders as well as runners. Avoid the sections of the river that run parallel to the noisy, traffic-clogged autobahn, and stick instead to havens like the flat, unpaved trail that skirts the northern edge of Dillingen, a factory town of roughly 18,000 in Germany's Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...