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...decided to bring them back because first-run films have such a short lifespan, and people who want to see a movie often don't get the opportunity to for many reasons," said the owner, who refused to be identified...
What allows a club to survive beyond what many have labelled "the average lifespan of 1000 nights"? To a large extent, the answer is determined by the energy and stamina an owner can invest in his creation. For Rudolf the answer is simple: "I do nightlife with passion, for my own entertainment; when I get bored here, I change it." But he adds, "Some change the decor and have the illusion they're changing the club. You have to change the spirit...
...entity with a bounded lifespan, stability, and the ability to reproduce is a struggling agent subject to natural selection, Gould said. "But organisms are not the only things with these properties...
...sense, the play's message is straightforward. The protagonist, a man named Fifty (indicating his lifespan), is rebelling against a his society, a futuristic world in which people's lives are based on their anticipation of death. Each character learns at birth how long he will have to live, but is forbidden from revealing his moment of death to anyone else. Everyone's age is public knowledge, but only an individual knows when his "moment" will occur...
...John R. Murphy, associate professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, said his experiment next month would be safe, citing tight laboratory security and the toxins' short lifespan in the atmosphere as factors working against any diphtheria spread...