Just a decade ago, GIST patients lived for only a year and a half, and there was little doctors could do.

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And the man who has to confront these challenges is a 76-year-old who has lived for decades with just one lung, having suffered a respiratory disease in his youth.

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But that reprieve will be short-lived, not just because it only got a one-year extension but also because those supporting the sector are starting to diverge.

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Public records show that Todashev - who was reportedly a mixed-martial arts fighter - lived in Watertown, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, last year.

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Almost 29 million people lived in internal displacement in 2012, with 6.5 million newly displaced just in the past year, a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council suggests.

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"I don't know why they don't just get Jet Skis, " said Tracy Korbel, a 46-year-old Texas native, who has lived in Minnesota for a dozen years.

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