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Consider the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation \[ u_t - \Delta u + | \nabla u| ^p = 0 \] in \(\mathbb{R}^N \times (0,\infty)\) with initial data \(u_0(x)\). In previous work [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 130, No. 4, 1103--1111 (2002; Zbl 1001.35007)], some of the authors showed that if \(u_0 \geq 0\) is bounded, continuous and integrable and the positive exponent \(p\) satisfies \(p < N/(N+1)\), the solution vanishes identically after some finite time \(T^*\). In the present paper, this result is strengthened and refined, with the following results: 1. If \(0 < p < 1\) and \(\limsup | x| ^{p/(1-p)}u_0(x) < \infty\), then the solution vanishes identically for \(t>T^*\). 2. If this \(\limsup\) is not finite, the solution remains positive for all positive times. 3. Solutions with \(Z^n\)-periodic initial data always stabilize at spatial constants after some finite time, for any \(0 < p < 1\). 4. However, for general non-negative initial data, solutions are not expected to stabilize at spatial constants after finite times. In addition, the paper contains a number of results on the asymptotic behavior of solutions of this problem in \(L^1\) and \(L^\infty\), for \(0 < p < 1+(N+1)^{-1}\). The proofs rely on comparison arguments.