Word: flee
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...this be for real? My colleagues warn me against irrational exuberance. Some things have improved since the surge, they say, but many of Baghdad's dangers remain. Since I was here last, one of our Iraqi staffers has had to flee the country after receiving death threats. Two others have moved their families out, into Jordan and Syria, for their protection. Sami, who is driving me from the airport, tells me that Iraqis who are going to the airport still carry giant suitcases, stuffed to bursting point, a telltale sign they are not planning to return. My flight...
...monks from three large monasteries on the outskirts of the city, Drepung, Sera and Ganden, attempted to enter Lhasa to commemorate an uprising against Chinese rule in 1959 that was ruthlessly suppressed with hundreds of protesters reportedly killed. The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was forced to flee Lhasa for refuge in India, where he has lived in exile ever since. (Chinese troops occupied Tibet in 1949 when the Communists finally claimed victory in the country's prolonged civil...
...Gulf, they in turn feed excess growth of algae. When algae dies and decomposes, the process sucks much of the oxygen out of the water. A sea without oxygen is little different from the surface of the moon - nothing can live there. Fish and other sea life flee, or suffocate. That's the Gulf's dead zone, and last year it reached 7,915 sq. mi (20,500 sq. km) - nearly the size of the New Jersey. Worse, the dead zone is getting bigger, with last year's bloom the third largest in history...
...Street and Massachusetts Avenue. Officers approached the individuals who then abruptly walked away. One of the individuals then began screaming that they had a gun while clenching their fist and throwing their arms up in the air. Officers report the individual’s actions caused several people to flee the area in fear. Officers then placed the David C. Barton under arrest...
...Officers dispatched to Maxwell Dworkin Building to a report that an individual that was known to have an active no trespass warning for all of Harvard University property was inside of the building. Officers arrived and located the individual. Once the individual observed the officers they attempted to flee the area. After a brief struggle, David R. Scrima, 47, was then placed under arrest...