For many of today's star athletes, involvement in sports at a young age provided refuge from problems at home, or opened doors to a college education that would not otherwise have been possible.
Faced with increasingly vocal movements for women's suffrage and labor unions, the Edwardian establishment took refuge in stagy "problem pictures" and elaborate renderings of Greek myths and medieval legends.
Like Baker and Clapton before him, Bruce sought refuge from his problems (but only compounded them) by becoming addicted to heroin, which he first took in 1971.
Often, they are finding them on the edge of cities, in the older suburbs, which long ago ceased being a refuge from urban problems and now tend to look much more like the cities themselves, racially and socioeconomically.
Usually the tree-lined banks of Sandhurst Lake, one of the best carp fishing spots in the UK, are a refuge from the problems of everyday life in troubled economic times.
Mr. O'Keefe repeated his contention that the mission was too risky to the crew because, unlike other shuttle flights, it was not to the International Space Station, which could serve as a refuge if a shuttle problem developed.
They said the baggy fits of Carhartt clothing and relatively gender-neutral looks of skater brands, like Altamont and Wildfang, have provided some refuge from the nagging problem of sizing.
Despite the government fiscal crisis, the problems at Refuge do not appear to be entirely financial.
As long as newspapers remain for-profit enterprises, they will find no refuge from their financial problems.
Bryant is using the court as a refuge from his legal problems, but Malone also sees playing as a safe haven.
