1.  And even after this wretched week for Kobe there are people alive who in an earlier age would surely have been killed by so great an earthquake.

2.  At the same time, the fact that protease inhibitors have helped keep so many people alive is depriving others of benefits.

3.  But medical officials said as time passed the likelihood of finding people alive diminished.

4.  Few people alive, if any, remember that the Cubs and the White Sox played each other in a World Series.

5.  In the fifth century B.C., Confucius questioned the practice of burying people alive alongside the dead in funerary rituals, calling it a waste of human life.

6.  Most people alive today do not remember a world without anti-microbial agents, when the possibility of death lurked in every cough or upset stomach.

7.  Not many people alive do, however.

8.  The FCC estimates two-thirds of the people alive on Earth today have never made a phone call.

9.  The most persistent stories have been of people alive in the ruins.

10.  There are few people alive today who have gotten a better deal from Hollywood than Erin Brockovich.