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...White Russians arrived first. The disintegration of their homeland forced many to flee to Harbin, in northern China, and then on to Shanghai. Some, such as Admiral Stark and his sailors, took their battle fleets, sailed south and parked themselves opposite the Bund, commanding attention by their numbers and the size of their guns...
FIGHT, FLIGHT OR FRIGHT The senses become hyperalert, drinking in every detail of the surroundings and looking for potential new threats. Adrenaline shoots to the muscles, preparing the body to fight or flee...
...River watching corpses spin past on the milk-chocolate currents. As the regime starts liquidating all remaining dissenters?his beloved Moe among them?what began as a lyrical coming-of-age tale becomes a dark and gripping story of survival. Pursued by government soldiers, Khoo Thwe and fellow students flee into the jungle to join ethnic insurgents on the Thai-Burma border, enduring both disease and terrifying assaults by the Burmese army. Yet, even as enemy mortars explode nearby, Khoo Thwe pores over his treasured copy of The New Oxford Book of English Verse, an anomalous scene he compares...
...which may have been overfilled by 5 million cu m because of exceptionally heavy winter rains. BURUNDI Rebels Fight On Rebels from the Hutu-dominated National Liberation Forces (NLF) attacked a military position north of Bujumbura, forcing thousands of people living in the northern neighborhoods of the capital to flee their homes as fighting neared and shells slammed into the center of the city. A transitional government, accepted by 17 political parties, was inaugurated last November but Hutu rebels refused to accept it. Recent talks between government and nlf rebels have stalled because of mistrust and disagreements. MADAGASCAR Presidential Battle...
...Thursday morning, the plane from the United Arab Emirates' capital, Abu Dhabi, to Oman's, Muscat, looks like an exodus. Arabs and expats flee the monotony of their oil-rich states for a long weekend in Oman. "Oman is the only interesting country in the gulf," declares a Kuwaiti princess. "All the others are just the same." Compared with the singularly flat and bland desert landscapes of the gulf coast states, Oman's raw, rocky mountains, plunging fjords and ribbons of white sand beaches are a visual buffet to sand-seared eyes...