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Luck, then genes can lead to long life

TOKYO -- Jiroemon Kimura, who became the world's oldest man on record last week, can thank a combination of luck early in life and, later, good genes for surviving seven decades longer than most of his peers.

Kimura, a former postman who is 115 years and 250-plus days old, dodged childhood killers such as tuberculosis and pneumonia that kept life expectancy in Japan to 44 years when he was...

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