She also lost a boot in a bog near Taw Green in Dartmoor but managed to escape and rescued it later with help of a local farmer.

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But then they are still trying to escape from the effects of a near meltdown of the financial system.

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"You realize the name of the game is to escape pollution and live near a green space, " said Amy Wood, an American ex-pat who has been living in Asia for seven years.

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Two men had a lucky escape in the morning, when snow gave way beneath them near the Fiacaill Buttress in the Coire an t-Sneachda area.

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Coal ash is captured before it can escape at a smoke stack into the air, it's channeled into ponds near the river and contained there by earthen dikes.

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At risk is the life of Rifqa Bary, the seventeen-year-old girl who fled to Florida in July to escape her family and the virulent Muslim community near Columbus, Ohio of which they have been a part since immigrating from Sri Lanka.

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