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A 7-year-old boy complaining of jaw pain was found to have 526 teeth inside his mouth, according to the hospital in India where he was treated. The boy was admitted last month in the southern city of Chennai because of swelling and pain near his molars in his lower right jaw. When doctors scanned and x-rayed his mouth, they found a sac embedded in his lower jaw filled with “abnormal teeth,” After discovering the sac, two surgeons removed it from the boy’s mouth. Then Ramani’s team took four to five hours to empty the sac to confirm its contents and...

WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 26 -- US Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) introduced bills on Jan. 21 to repeal Section 526 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA), and to accelerate the domestic manufacturing tax deduction's phase-in and allow oil and gas companies to take advantage of it. Inhofe, who is ranking minority member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said EISA Section 526 prevents the US Department of Defense from buying fuel produced from Canadian tar sands. It also prevents the US Air Force from using coal-to-liquid or natural gas-to-liquid fuels, he indicated, adding that Tinker Air...