11.   After the quake, Northridge Meadows Apartments managers Pat and Tony Mekenski fled across the desert to Las Vegas.

12.   But the strife is rarely localized, often sending refugees fleeing across borders and threatening to flame ethnic tensions nearby.

13.   During the Bosnia war, bears were seen fleeing across the border to seek refuge in the mountains of Serbia, which were peaceful at that time.

14.   Fleeing across the frontier near his birthplace to neighboring Czechoslovakia, he earned a hand-to-mouth living as a writer in Prague.

15.   Government troops that did not rally to the rebel side pillaged Kisangani before fleeing across the Zaire River and heading into the northern hinterlands, according to Western diplomats.

16.   He added that other Uighurs have fled across the border to Afghanistan to avoid religious repression.

17.   He said because of the longtime problem of criminals fleeing across the Rio Grande to escape arrest, he wanted a toll-free number that would work in Mexico.

18.   Hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled across the border to Guinea, adding a dollop of Christianity to the heavily Muslim city.

19.   It has harbored al-Qaida operatives fleeing across its border from Afghanistan.

20.   Ladders are sometimes used by people fleeing across the border, but this one was apparently intended to lure the soldiers to the area.