The survival of the Howard family in Protestant England dating from Henry VIII is regarded by historians as an example of tenacity and by many Catholics as miraculous.
Such a national tragedy could even put in question the physical survival of Mr. Karzai and his family.
But these letters, she says, are more than a family's chronicle of survival: They document a vast network of Nazi slave labor camps, about which very little has been written even today.
These crops provide a family's best guarantee of survival, but no more than that.
Mr Tung was a shipping tycoon from a Shanghai family who owed his business's survival to the government in Beijing.
He was a speaker, consultant and author of many books on this subject, including Beyond Survival: A guide for the Business Owner and His Family.
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They are offered every possible medical intervention, including quadruple-bypass surgery and dialysis (for Olimpia, a grandmother with a slim chance of survival) and bariatric surgery (for Marta, a younger family member who can't lose a pound on her own).
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) and the Wiwa family have exchanged a series of angry press releases, in a feud which appears to hinge on an invitation to foreign forensic experts to exhume the bodies.
Ms McIntyre said her family was told she had just a 5% chance of survival, but over the following weeks her heart, and other organs, started to recover.
Another study published this week suggests that the more a woman earns relative to her partner, the greater the risk of a family breaking up, whereas higher male earnings increase the chances of its survival.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with her and her family at this critical time, " said Dale Anderson, founder of Project Survival Cat Haven in Dunlap.
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