So the great star battleship was forced to ride an orbit to nowhere, its crew and civilian refugees struggling desperately to stay alive.

One of the best pieces here is an excerpt from "Men in the Sun," a riveting novella about Palestinian refugees struggling to cross the desert undetected.

Of the population of 20 million, nearly two million are recently returned refugees struggling to find a way to survive their first winter back.

The relentless sun sears the parched red soil, turning rivers into dry sand and leaving thorn trees, withered cactuses and weary refugees struggling to survive.

He and Dinky embraced briefly, then raised their hands and joined the southward flow of Breakers, who would soon lose their status as VTPs and become just one more bunch of refugees struggling to survive in a dark and poisoned land.

Foreign correspondents accompanying them described painful scenes of ill-fed and poorly clothed refugees struggling to escape reprisals that they believe await them for their monthlong, and apparently unsuccessful, uprising against Mr. Hussein.

Enough to think of the stream of refugees struggling to break into the fortunate zones of Europe, and recall that the Roman empire collapsed in the West because of the relatively deprived struggling to get in, not out.

After scrutinizing your photographs of thousands of refugees struggling to find a home in Western Europe, I was struck by the fact that only two of them were female.

Candidates fan fear of terrorists into hatred of all Chechens, including refugees struggling to get out of the war zone.