What with all this and his toothache (back molar, swollen jaw) and the malaria, G. is in a bad way.

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The endemic Siberian population had different molar features and a "very unique DNA signature" - that was dated to be almost 900, 000 years old.

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"A man who has not sunk a molar into a fig newton, " Dirksen would announce, his gray-golden ringlets vibrating with emotion, "has let much of life pass him by!"

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You said that he was missing an upper molar.

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But when Lea Rosh gave a speech at the inauguration of Berlin's new Holocaust memorial, she stunned the audience by brandishing a molar she found 17 years ago at Belzec, a Nazi concentration camp, and saying she would set it into one of the memorial's 2, 711 concrete pillars.

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