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  "textContent": "Long before novocaine, a Neanderthal in Siberia apparently sat still while someone drilled into a screaming molar with a stone tool. That's the scenario sketched by scientists studying a 59,000-year-old tooth from Chagyrskaya Cave, described Wednesday in PLOS One . The molar bears a clean, circular hole and microscopic V-shaped...",
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