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Fortune/CNN – How companies get employees out of global hotspots

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Los Angeles Times – More for your money: Getting out of a country in crisis

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The Record (NJ) – Is it safe out there? Scoping out trouble spots for travel

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The Addison Independent – Middlebury students evade Egypt turmoil

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The Poughkeepsie Journal – Local student, teacher describe Egypt during turmoil

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The Billings Gazette – Maker of medical kits calls Global Rescue an ‘absolute necessity’

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Petergreenberg.com – Travel Insurance And Egypt: Travel Protection During Civil Unrest

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The Patriot Ledger – Massachusetts companies review protection plans for overseas operations

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Student evacuated from Egypt tells his story to local paper

Marist College student Jeffry Hausner describes his ordeal in Egypt and susbsequent evacuation to the Poughkeepsie Journal:

Marist College student Jeffry Hausner describes his ordeal in Egypt and susbsequent evacuation to the Poughkeepsie Journal:

“We started watching Al Jazeera,” he said. “Then, our text and Internet was shut down.”

Hausner said cell-phone service was spotty. The university announced it was delaying classes shortly after he reached his parents by phone. The family contacted Global Rescue, a private security company that arranged for Hausner to be picked up at the gates of the university the next morning.

From there, they drove through several security checkpoints and on to Alexandria, Egypt, where a 737 plane awaited them.

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Poughkeepsie Journal – Marist student, 20, flees Cairo

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Egypt Update: Global Rescue evacuates 145 people from Alexandria

Global Rescue evacuated 145 people from Alexandria, Egypt, on Tuesday...

Global Rescue evacuated 145 people from Alexandria, Egypt, on Tuesday.  The evacuees included corporate employees, their dependents and 14 students. The groups were taken to the airport in a convoy and transported to Prague, en route to Washington, D.C. aboard a Boeing 737.

On Monday, Global Rescue security teams evacuated 37 students from Middlebury College and another university from Alexandria to Prague. The day before, Global Rescue extracted employees of an American company from Cairo. Security teams collected the Americans and foreign nationals from various points around the capital and then evacuated them via fixed-wing aircraft to Jordan.