Word: exoduses
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...sheer physics of the weekend's influx may require a mass exodus of Harvard students to compensate. But while many say they wish they were leaving, most will stick it out. "I think it's very common not to leave town but to lie low," says Carsey Yee, resident tutor of Adams House...
...plague deadlier than the bubonic broke out in the Indian city of Surat, killing at least 51 people. Some 400,000 residents jammed trains and buses in a panicked exodus from the polluted industrial city...
...unprecedented riots along the Malecon this August (according to The New Republic, over 500 remain in jail on charges of "rebellion") and the mass exodus that followed it are incredible signs that Castro's power is threatened for the first time in 35 years...
...Cuba reached an agreement that would halt the Cuban exodus, permit at least 20,000 Cubans to enter the U.S. legally each year and allow for the repatriation of "those Cuban refugees who have recently left and wish to return...
...doctor, however, is plotting to escape, not topple Castro. Like the 1980 Mariel boatlift, which carried 125,000 Cubans to Florida, this summer's exodus -- 23,000 so far -- is siphoning off the worst malcontents, relieving some of the pressure on Castro. "People in the U.S. think things here could change rapidly, but I'm sure Fidel will be in power a long time," he says. Cubans are concentrating not on protesting but on building rafts. If necessary, say government sources, Castro is willing to shed 1 million of the island's 11 million people...