A mother of twins born 18 months after the death of the biological father lost her Supreme Court appeal Monday, and the children are not eligible for survival benefits under Social Security.

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No benefits for posthumous conception

Call it survival of the slowest: Extraordinarily old, bizarrely low-key bacteria have been found in sediments 100 feet below the sea floor of the Pacific Ocean, far removed from sunlight, fresh nutrients and what humans would consider anything interesting to do. Read full article > >

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Ancient life, potentially millions of years old and barely alive, found beneath ocean floor

QPR manager Mark Hughes says survival rather than revenge is his motivation as he faces former club Man City on Sunday.

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Hughes not motivated by revenge

Early goals from Franco di Santo and Jordi Gomez help Wigan boost their survival hopes with a shock win at Arsenal.

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Arsenal 1-2 Wigan

Gary Caldwell’s winner gives Wigan’s survival hopes a huge boost with a first win at Anfield as Liverpool’s poor run continues.

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Liverpool 1-2 Wigan

The president is framing the 2012 election as a choice between a sense of shared responsibility and a survival-of-the-fittest approach to reshaping the nation’s economy.

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Obama Weaves Well-Versed Theme Into Case for Re-Election

The white supremacists, survivalists and anti-Zionists who have rallied behind Ron Paul’s candidacy have not exactly been warmly welcomed. But he does not disavow their support.

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Ron Paul Disowns Extremists’ Views but Doesn’t Disavow the Support

From the outside, the country is hailed as an example of economic survival, but its citizens say they feel burdened.

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Ireland’s Austerity Hailed as Example of Financial Survival

Many threatened species in developing countries are entirely dependent on agricultural land for their survival, according to scientists.

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Threatened species need farmland

Overall median survival periods for cancer have risen from 12 months to nearly six years since the 1970s, but with little change in some cancers, figures show.

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Cancer survival progress charted

Crackers and a communal pot of cheese, long a tradition of bars in the theater district, is losing a fight for survival against health regulations.

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Sardi’s Stops Free Cheese Pots After Health Department Inspection

At a number of points in its troubled history, the solar company Solyndra faced dire financial problems that threatened its survival. Yet at each crisis, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and officials at his agency failed to take steps that critics say could have limited taxpayer losses when the company collapsed last summer. Read full article > >

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Solyndra: Energy Department failed to sound alarm as solar company sank

Social media has become a necessity in Mexico, with a mission far different from that of the Arab revolutions — here, it is deployed for local survival.

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Mexico Turns to Twitter and Facebook for Information and Survival

The UK ranks as one of the worst countries in the world in terms of survival for patients with pancreatic cancer, a review reveals.

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UK pancreatic cancer care lagging

Geralyn Lucas thought she would be dead by 30. Instead, 16 years after her breast cancer diagnosis, the author and activist is a huge fan of hair dye and Botox. Ironic, she acknowledges, because all she ever wanted was to grow old. Her tween daughter, Skye, was her “miracle child” after chemotherapy threatened Lucas’s fertility. Now the 12-year-old rolls her shadowed eyes and mocks her svelte mother for having “back fat.” “I want to call my next book ‘I Survived Cancer. But Can I Survive My Kids and My Grumpy Husband?’ ” quipped Lucas, 44, who on a recent Sunday was in the back of a New York City cab drinking chilled rosé with a group of girlfriends as we headed to a hipster Brooklyn parlor for celebratory tattoos. Read full article > >

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Author Geralyn Lucas puts a fresh face on cancer survival