Pilgrims in Wartime The pianist MISHA DICHTER was born in Shanghai, where his parents were stranded during World War II (they had left Poland through Lithuania before the Nazis marched in).
They are now stranded between worlds, struggling to find new jobs in a country where about one in four people is unemployed, and scorned by those who view working for Westerners as treachery.
Airline staff queued up to go on strike, collapsed travel companies left clients stranded around the world, and holiday bookings wobbled as consumer confidence dipped.
Many commentators have warned these assets will become "stranded" if the world moves to avoid dangerous climate change, and keeps many of the known fossil fuel reserves in the ground.
"He came running right up to me," said Ms. Morris, one of the first people allowed back into their apartments to fetch pets stranded since the World Trade Center attack.
If only for commercial reasons, the players now need to stick to the rules.Even if they do, that might not leave the beleaguered but loaded dictators of the world stranded.
If a widespread outbreak were to occur quickly, business travelers stranded around the world, and the large numbers of employees who are suddenly required to work from home for health reasons, would merely add to the strains on the World Wide Web.
Major floods of ice melt would follow, as well as a giant ash cloud, perhaps similar to the one in 2010 from Eyjafjallajökull, which shut down European air space for a week and left millions of travellers stranded around the world.
There will be so many people like us who are now stranded around the world - how will the airline help them?
The Swiss government was forced to step in and give the airline funding after it ran out of cash and then grounded its planes, leaving thousands of passengers stranded across the world.
In between filming that franchise, Walker's other movies included the festive drama Noel; the diving thriller Into the Blue, alongside Jessica Alba; Eight Below, about an Antarctic husky trainer who has to rescue his stranded dogs; and World War II film Flags of Our Fathers.
