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“Relative to, say, Kentucky, Europe is a continent full of countries featuring better educated, healthier, longer-lived people, with lower poverty rates and dramatically fewer poor children.”
Matthew Yglesias » Europe: A Continent Full of Lovely Countries 2009
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Yet when I spoke with Beaucastel's proprietor, Marc Perrin, he told me that he thought white Ch â teauneuf-du-Papes, across the board, were longer-lived than the reds.
Ch Lettie Teague 2010
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The data showed that iodine-131, which has a short half-life of eight days, was the most commonly found isotope, with the longer-lived cesium-134 and cesium-137 at lower but still elevated levels.
Japan Discloses Data on Radioactive Water Release Mitsuru Obe 2011
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Relative to, say, Kentucky, Europe is a continent full of countries featuring better educated, healthier, longer-lived people, with lower poverty rates and dramatically fewer poor children.
Matthew Yglesias » Europe: A Continent Full of Lovely Countries 2009
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It has, in the rest of the developed world, given people socialized medicine that, contrary to Republican propaganda, has led to populations that are healthier and longer-lived than ours, at far lower cost than American expenditures on health care.
Jesse Larner: The Tea Party Idea of Freedom Is Anything But Jesse Larner 2010
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He has a subtler and longer-lived role model: Bill Murray, the Maynard G. Krebs of the mid-1970s.
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Still, it strikes me as odd that conservatives seem so convinced that a set of countries whose populations are healthier and longer-lived, and where dramatically fewer children grow up in poverty, is somehow obviously a dystopian nightmare.
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That means the famed pyramid builders of Central America had an even longer-lived civilization than suspected by scholars just a few decades ago.
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The "M" class stars, smaller and longer-lived than our sun, are the most plentiful kind in the universe, and a Nature journal study last month found there may be three times more of the stars filling galaxies throughout the universe than expected.
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But the second phase of the accident, a much longer-lived and potentially more significant story, is now beginning.
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