More than once Rockwell fled to Paris to try art for art's sake.

ECONOMIST: Exile on Main Street | The

Happily, to judge from the swarms of users who fled MySpace once Facebook started to catch on.

FORBES: Why Facebook Won

High rates of foreclosure in bubble states have freed workers to leave for more promising markets, including the once too-expensive cities from which such migrants previously fled.

ECONOMIST: House prices and mobility

They found that, over the course of the breeding season, deserting the nest once eggs had been laid boosted the number of descendants produced by the bird that fled.

ECONOMIST: Evolutionary biology

More than 400, 000 Ivorians have fled their homes, three-quarters of them from Abidjan, the country's once shinily prosperous commercial capital, most of them in the past few weeks.

ECONOMIST: Chaotic C?te d'Ivoire