Its survivability stats, printed around the lens, include waterproof to 14 meters (46 feet), shockproof to 2-meter (6.5-foot) drops, crush-proof to 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of force and cold-proof to -10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit).

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Still, our belief is one thing -- cold hard proof is another, and it looks like a group of 12 self-professed "audiophiles" recently couldn't tell the difference between Monster 1000 speaker cables and plain old coat hangers.

ENGADGET: Audiophiles can't tell the difference between Monster Cable and coat hangers

To both Mr Johnson and Mr Khalid, the fact that hostilities have outlasted colonialism as well as the cold war, not to mention many regional reconfigurations, is proof that it has deeper roots than this season's political and economic flashpoints.

ECONOMIST: Sudan

Kandel had the first clues, but the most dramatic proof in understanding just how much CREB influences memory came from Tim Tully and his Cold Spring colleague Jerry Yin.

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