Scientists confirm that burying beetles coat their young’s food with an antibacterial substance to guarantee their survival.

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Insects make food germ-free

Scientists confirm that burying beetles coat their young’s food with an antibacterial substance to guarantee their survival.

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Insects make food germ-free

Struggling to bridge two cultural identities can be a gruesome process and a life- long struggle. As a female Arab-American, I fear the day when I may find myself caught in an ultimatum between my Arab and American cultures. Perhaps that is why I initially wanted to deny the truth behind the title of Dalel Khalil’s self-published book “From Veils to Thongs: An Arab Chick’s Survival Guide to Balancing One’s Ethnic Identity in America.” The title, though a bit long-winded, is perfectly descriptive and sure to grab the attention of many Arab-American girls (It is also a rather clever way to attract boys who are drawn to the book’s provocative title and picture).

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An Extreme Balancing Act: Guidance from a Master

Days into my tenure as mayor of Chicago, with my focus on keeping our city’s streets safe, our schools strong and our finances stabilized, I expected my attention to be in the Midwest, not in the Middle East. But as an American and the son of an Israeli immigrant, I have a deep, abiding commitment to the survival, security and success of the state of Israel. I am among the many who know that the Israeli people yearn for peace. They have taken risks for peace in spite of dangers. They will again, when they have a viable partner in the process and a region that recognizes a Jewish state of Israel with secure and defensible borders. Read full article > >

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Obama’s commitment to Israel

ASKEWVILLE, N.C. — A tornado-spewing storm system that killed at least 45 people across half the country unleashed its worst fury on North Carolina, where homes broke apart, trees snapped and livestock were swept into the air. Residents in the capital city and rural hamlets alike on Sunday mourned the dead, marveled at their own survival and began to clean up devastated neighborhoods.

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NC worst hit by powerful storm that spun off twisters from Okla. to Va., killing at least 45

A mother and daughter tell their amazing tale of Holocaust survival

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Born in death camp

As a 28-year-old reporter about to cover Africa in 2002, I was sent to rural Virginia to attend hostile-environment training, where former British Royal Marines taught journalists such survival techniques as how to filter your own urine if you are dehydrated in a desert and how to drag a wounded 200-pound colleague through a field studded with land mines.

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A Post reporter shares her perspective on hazards for female journalists abroad

The survival rate for bowel cancer surgery varies widely between hospitals in England, a study in the journal Gut shows.

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Bowel cancer op survival rates ‘vary’

After decades of glamour, the Women’s Club of Hollywood now finds itself torn by lawsuits and a struggle for power that threatens its survival.

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A Fixture of Hollywood’s Past, Now Tarnished by Internal Strife

Here’s a classic case of survival of the fittest: While roughly 98 percent of the population needs at least seven to nine hours of sleep a night to maintain good mental and physical health, roughly 2 percent of the population needs just a few hours-and…

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Are You Among the Sleepless Elite?

The Syrian is attempting a new survival tactic in this Arab Spring.

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Bashar al-Assad stages his own coup

Wolves are dealt a blow to their hopes of Premier League survival with the news that top scorer Kevin Doyle could miss the rest of the season.

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Wolves rocked by injury to Doyle

Elizabeth Taylor was a survivor, and it was that survival that helped separate her from many other old Hollywood stars.

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Critic’s Notebook: Movies, Men, Melodramas: A Lust for Life

Survival from ovarian cancer has almost doubled over the last 30 years, figures from England show.

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Ovarian cancer survival doubles

As he desperately tries to squash a popular rebellion, Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi is banking on the loyalty of a close circle of relatives and security officials whose personal fates depend on his survival, according to U.S. officials and analysts.

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Fate of Gaddafi inner circle also at stake