In its early stages, the Catlin survey will move over some of the thickest, longest-lived ice.

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When Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997 at 122 years of age, she was acclaimed as the longest-lived person.

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His longest-lived patient received the heart of a gunshot victim in 1983.

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By contrast, in the same test, the longest-lived ultrabook I've tested, the Lenovo IdeaPad U300s, got nearly five hours, and the MacBook Air almost six hours.

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Once the carrier is commissioned, it will stay in the fleet for 50 years, making it by far the longest-lived class of warships in the modern Navy.

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As a relative newcomer to the wireless arena, the search giant in one bold move got its hands on the unmatched innovation experience of the longest-lived mobile phone company on earth.

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This ultracold experiment is also ultra-fast - the longest lived Rydberg molecule survives for just 18 microseconds.

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"We looked at those people who were the most persistent, most hard-working, most involved, and achieved the most success, and often that was the most stress - those were the people who stayed healthier and lived the longest, " he explains.

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