Taken together, it feels like we're heading toward a 21st-century version of Shakespeare's Globe: Welcome to the free-for-all!

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"The world is heading for a once-in-a-century economic crisis, " says Ryoji Musha, a strategist for Deutsche Bank in Japan.

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"The world is heading for a once-in-a-century economic crisis, " agrees Ryoji Musha , strategist for Deutsche Bank (nyse: DB - news - people ).

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Transat Jacques Vabre competitors sail in the opposite direction to the coffee trade route of the 19th Century, leaving Le Havre in France and heading for Salvador de Bahia in Brazil.

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Hendry responded with another century break in the ninth and looked to be heading for a comfortable victory as he moved 7-4 ahead.

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Middle-class blacks whose forebears fled the South in mid-century are now leaving Northern cities like New York and heading for Dixie.

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Until then, the No. 1 train will roll through the century-old tunnel as it loops around its last, lower Manhattan stop before heading uptown again.

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From Frenchglen, keep heading south to the still smaller town of Andrews (pop. 0), where a century-old barn outside of town is missing its roof.

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Coram's Fields was part of an 18th-century foundling hospital, while Tooting Bec Common was reputedly a transit camp for soldiers heading off to the Napoleonic Wars.

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