1.   Because Cuban waters are so pristine and because marine life has thrived there, they hold lessons for Americans, Gilmore said.

2.   His personal life is thriving, too.

3.   In these deposits, bacterial life might have thrived.

4.   Just about anywhere there is water, microbial life can thrive.

5.   NASA and many scientists want to know if the sea exists and if alien life thrives in its inky depths.

6.   Neither plan worked out, but two presidential libraries prove that intellectual life can thrive off campus.

7.   Ms. Serje is passionate about recognizing the neighborhoods where real life thrives.

8.   They will be seeking evidence of ancient microbial fossils, primitive organic chemicals, and special habitats such as frozen-over lakes where life might thrive even today.