"I hugged him close, so he couldn't escape from the car, " she wrote.

CNN: 'Anarchist Soccer Mom' cries out for help

When we couldn't escape from a rough sea, we would take refuge in a cave and pass the night shivering.

BBC: Like the Amalfi coast? Try the Gargano promontory

In this way you create and encourage a "national pool" of capital, from which savers can't escape.

BBC: Business

The story has captured and conveyed a widespread sense that the things that were supposed to get better haven't, and perhaps, more damagingly, that they couldn't: that there is no escape from the past.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

The adage in English soccer is that 40 points guarantees escape from relegation, but usually the EPL isn't that competitive. (Clubs get three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a loss.) Since 1995-96, when the league contracted to 20 teams, a club needed 40 or more points to guarantee an EPL spot just four times.

WSJ: Marseille's Joey Barton Gets Suspended Ban for Insulting Tweets

For those who can't steal from children, avoid recession news or escape their own bleak realities, Marlin Potash, a New York City psychologist of 30 years, was inspired to step into the blogosphere for the first time.

CNN: Online relief for the recession-weary

"All five were ornamental chickens and couldn't get off the ground and the roundabout has no trees with low branches for them to escape from predators, " she said.

BBC: Chicken roundabout: New birds disappear from site