Among few sources of insight into the Andean's philosophy of life and death are the textiles of ancient Peru, textiles that survived because of burial with the dead in a region where rainfall totals less than a half-inch annually.
For every "zombie" firm that survives because of government assistance, several innovative start-ups don't get the chance to be born.
No L. hongkongensis was recovered from the homogenized tissues of zebrafish that survived because the bacteria have been cleared by the host's immune system over time.
The world is full of bad regimes that survive just because they hurt others more than they hurt themselves.
Those that survive today exist because they turned out to be useful.
Often, the independent movie theaters that survive do so because they fill a particular niche, offering arts or independent films, for example, Mrs. Gordon said.
Currently, fMRI studies only report significant results (regions that survive the statistical threshold), because one cannot list all regions or voxels tested.
Folklorists call them "friend of a friend" stories and argue that they survive because they offer us lessons and morals that are often tied to concerns about our transition to a modern, depersonalized society.
The fact that we are prepared to do these things to non-human animals is therefore a sign of "speciesism", a prejudice that survives because it is convenient for the dominant group - in this case, not whites or males, but all humans.
It's quite profound, really; a devastatingly beautiful goddess posed in stark, poignant contrast against Sandy's relatively minor debris – a time-weary juxtaposition, but one that survives because it just makes you think so goddamn much.
