But this would not necessarily exclude the possibility that life or the remnants of past life persist below ground, where conditions could be more benign.
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Colonial Williamsburg prides itself on bringing the past to life, and we are soon interrupted by tourists streaming into the room, taking a tour.
And once a few seemingly dry facts have been established - a date and place of birth, for instance - the web can help bring the past to life.
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In the past 100 years, the human life span has increased 65%, to 78 years.
All were distinguished by sets, costumes and colour photography that brought the past vividly to life.
So the following year, with a tip of the hat to his past life sparring over corporate assets, Pinault prevailed in a vicious battle with the Guggenheim Foundation to take over the nearly 40, 000-square-foot Punta della Dogana.
Half of patients with the condition do not survive past the first week of life, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Maybe the passing years warp our memory, but doesn't it seem to you that the personalities who dominated Asian political life in the past were greater than those around today?
And the impetus is coming not so much from billions of public spending, which kept the economy on life support for the past two years, but from private investment.
Yet the idea runs deep, in British life of the past half-century, that a true toff must be hushed and slightly ill at ease with his own toffery.
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This is the biggest change in America's religious life in the past 40 years.
But despite several recent high profile appearances, the duke has taken a step back from public life in the past year.
Malaika founder Kristen Kenney has a pretty good day job (she is an interactive correspondent for Fox Sports and covered the 2012 London Olympics), but much of the past three years of her life have been devoted to building the nonprofit.
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The Baby Boomers are well past the heavy drinking stage of life, and Generation Y (made up of current 20-somethings and early 30-somethings) tends to prefer flavored cocktails over beer.
Having worked in the media (in a past life) I know that Mr. Noer's article dabbled on the side of the negative news that brings readers and attention.
In the mezzanine, commuters will walk past life-size images of New Yorkers from the 1940s.
At the time, there was considerable uncertainty among demographers and actuaries about whether or not the substantial increase in life expectancy seen in the past couple of decades would continue or start to tail off.
Because of this, it seems to me that in the past decade or so, the half-life of our memories has become artificially extended.
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During the past twenty years, the notion that early life exposures may have a profound influence on health in childhood and beyond has gained increasing acceptance among scientists.
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So, somewhere along the line between now and November, I've got to make a decision about what is more important for me to make a decision based on the stances that I advocate in the past or for the first time in my life I'm going to contradict myself and just throw everything out the one that I advocated and believed in.
While Chicago landmarked the building, there is no hint of its past life - no plaque marking the spot or jazz tchotchkes for sale.
The group studied so-called "C3" plants, the most prevalent type of plant life on Earth for the past 400 million years.
But while the divisions and disputes may be part of life here, the common past uncovered by science is a precious reminder of just how much the Lebanese share.
Robert Downey Jr. urged the crowd at the American Cinematheque award ceremony to forgive the embattled actor and move past the ugliness that has plagued his personal life and career in recent years.
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On Wednesday, Eric Berg of Barclays Capital said reiterated his view that the steep drop in life insurers' share prices over the past two weeks does not point to a looming solvency problem in the industry.
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