The Boston Globe, November 24th, 1993
NEW ORLEANS -- At 118 years and nine months, a French woman living in Provence is believed to be the world's oldest living human being, a team of French epidemiologists reported here yesterday -- after a quick telephone call to France to make sure she was still alive. By all accounts, Jeanne Calment has had an extraordinary life, though whether she is an example of what gerontologists love to call "successful aging" was a topic of debate here on the last day of a conference of the Gerontological Society of America. Calment, the researchers said, has been remarkably healthy: She barely saw a do...
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