1.   What seems clear to an outsider, however, is that in the Fouassis family survival seemed a precarious business.

2.   And his survival seems near certain unless there is a secret plan to land troops to find and kill him, some Arab officials say.

3.   But the magic of medicine somehow still works in this hospital, where survival seems more luck than expectation.

4.   Defensive survival would seem to depend on when those two step on the field again.