Dan Rivers is a correspondent with CNN who managed to get inside Myanmar, but when the government found out and started chasing him down, he had to escape.

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However, the fourth time I managed to escape and I started to see the conditions in which people were living and I thought I have got to get back here.

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Malik Solanka, a Bombay-born, Cambridge-educated millionaire, has come to New York to escape a disintegrating marriage and the bouts of uncontrollable fury that have started to afflict him.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

Witnesses spoke of scenes of panic after the fire started, and a stampede as people tried to escape.

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Started in mid-1997, it aims to help the rural poor escape the vicious circle of low income, bad nutrition, poor health and lack of education.

ECONOMIST: Mexico

But the Asian producers started making more SUVs and pickup trucks in their North American factories to escape the duties, and then a rising oil-price led many motorists to abandon these often gas-guzzling vehicles.

ECONOMIST: Ford

Though understandably coy on the subject of monetary policy, Mr Carney did say central banks had to finish what they had started as well, and make sure that the major economies achieved "escape velocity".

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