1.  As a character in the play says, "Off-camera lives are unverifiable."

2.  As a fierce wind swirled around him, Luqman said life was never easy.

3.  As any world traveler will tell you, life is simpler if you don't have a lot of baggage.

4.  Dertouzos, for his part, sees technology heading inexorably in the direction of the way life should be.

5.  Describing himself as "an old man of 83 suffering from several ailments," he said his life had been a pilgrimage of growth and change.

6.  Cultural life hasn't been a priority _ psychologically or monetarily _ in city politics since Maynard Jackson's first mayoral term in the '70s.

7.  Democracy works best when civic life is strong, when people have a broad sense of community, shared experiences and mutual responsibility.

8.  Despite medicine's advances, life can still be hard _ even unbearable _ for people with epilepsy that's either difficult or impossible to control.

9.  Despite all the ways that our lives are different this day, there is no reason to believe that resolve has changed.

10.  Despite the challenges facing South Africa, the mood there is more optimistic than in the United States where life is seemingly so much better, she said.