live slow, die old

[Victor Steinbok]

It's the headline from The Scientist article on deep-water bacteria.

http://the-scientist.com/2012/05/17/live-slow-die-old/

The headline appears to have been a strategic choice in response to this
line from the text:

> "This adds to the growing evidence that sub-seafloor [microbes]
> survive on remarkably low energy flux and are very different from the
> live-fast-die-young microbes in near surface environments or
> laboratory cultures," said John Parkes from Cardiff University.

Because, for these bacteria,

> They must be at least a thousand years old, but they could be much
> older. "If they grow this slowly and they're still alive, then they're
> also not dying very fast," said Røy.


     VS-)

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