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And while I was pursuing my degree, a new war was raging, and thanks to modern body armor and military vehicles, service members were surviving blast injuries they wouldn't have before.
But part of the reason I found this interesting is, I started noticing that we're very aware of all the species that are going extinct on the planet as a result of human habitation expansion, and no one seems to be paying attention to all the species that are actually living; they're surviving.
It turns out, crows aren't just surviving with human beings; they're actually thriving.
And, kind of as a way of surviving, I would go into my own very personal space, and I would make things.
He landed his helicopter in between some surviving villagers and American soldiers and he trained his machine guns on his fellow Americans, and said, "If you don't stop the killing, I will mow you down."
Anthropologist Joan Silk's work shows that female baboons who have a core of female friends show lower levels of stress via their cortisol levels, they live longer and they have more surviving offspring.
It tolerates poor soil and needs very little water, surviving where nothing else will grow.
The key to surviving a nuclear blast is getting out, and not going into harm's way.
So the DNA is really badly mucked up, whereas if you have a chance of surviving, the DNA isn't so mucked up.
Serious book stores are losing their franchise, nonprofit theaters are surviving primarily by commercializing their repertory, symphony orchestras are diluting their programs, public television is increasing its dependence on reruns of British sitcoms, classical radio stations are dwindling, museums are resorting to blockbuster shows, dance is dying."
For Butler, imagination was not only for planting the seeds of science fiction– but also a strategy for surviving an unjust world on one’s own terms.
I personally think the surviving intelligent life form on earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.
Today, there are six surviving species, and they fall into two groups.
And we now think that a low metabolism may well be key to surviving extinction.
But what beekeepers can do is, if they have one surviving colony, they can split that colony in two.
This is one of the seven surviving Sputniks that was not launched into space.
But above all else, my focus was on surviving.
As we live longer and longer, surviving illnesses and injuries that would have killed our grandparents, even our parents, the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms, spending much of our lives somewhere between the two.
And he thinks that civilization has only a 50 percent chance of surviving this century.
There are few surviving written records about Christophe’s life immediately after the war.
"Surviving the Slammer: Do's and Don'ts."
So individuals with mutations that reduced the length of their tails became more successful at life on land, surviving long enough to pass their short tails on to the next generation.
Soon, Paul is catapulted into the middle of a planetary revolution, where he must prove himself capable of leading— and surviving— on this hostile desert world.
Within hours, the raiders have taken our queen’s entire brood supply to the largest nearby nest— and the queen’s surviving daughters abandon her.
And according to Herodotus, they passed 18 years this way, surviving through a famine, by eating on one day, and playing games on the next.
The surviving bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of Chechnya, was tried, convicted and sentenced to death.
Not all of them die; some of them survive, some more are surviving, but it's really bad news.
And down here, child survival, the percentage of children surviving childhood up to starting school: 60 percent, 70 percent, 80 percent, 90, and almost 100 percent, as we have today in the wealthiest and healthiest countries.
Once Skeleton Man and the surviving platoon leader (or whatever he was--I'm not good on military unit terminology) reached the chemical plant, the movie moved into a zone of impossible nonsense that was almost mesmerizing.
The surviving men are either high prices gigolos in back alley clubs, or crazed lunatics in run down football stadiums plotting to overthrow the 'Lesbian Conspiracy'.
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