"People don't understand how fragile the existence of a high-performance athlete is," Kirby said.

Since the beginning of life on Earth, around 3.5 billion years ago, the fragile existence has lived in the shadow of annihilation.

THIS morning, the sports world begins putting the pieces of a fragile existence back together.

Attempts to revive the fortunes of this side of the street have been only partly successful, which makes its fragile existence more poignant.

Realizing their fragile existence, immediate efforts were made to protect the herd.

The didn't really know life, and trag- edy, and how fragile existence is.

Yet even the run-of-the-mill live a fragile existence in East New York.

Like the artist himself, the pieces refer ironically to their own fragile existence in the modern world.

Billions of human beings, their existence always fragile, sharing mutual oblivion.

The ozone molecules are very thinly spread within this area but their fragile existence nevertheless serves a vital function to life.