Just as important in the quest for a better Manhattan has been the boom in quality and variety of bitters: high-proof liquors with a large concentration of herbs and other natural flavours.

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Such was my introduction to aquavits (or aquavites or akvavits), high-proof liquors that have been made in Scandinavia since at least the 15th Century by distilling fermented potato or grain mash and flavoring it with savory, herbaceous ingredients.

WSJ: Sipping the Spirit of the North | Half Full

Simply preview and share all of your images on the Olympus VR-340's large 3.0-inch, high-resolution LCD for proof that this camera's beauty is more than skin deep.

ENGADGET: Olympus unveils a cavalcade of point and shoot cameras and a PEN lens at CES

Topol says the unpublished results to which Wolfe is pointing don't pass the high bar of clinical proof--even though Celebrex may still pose a heart risk, and Pfizer may not have appropriately disclosed the results.

FORBES: The Celebrex Safety Mirage

Waiting for high levels of scientific and clinical proof before taking action to prevent well-known risks can lead to very high health and economic costs, as was the case with asbestos, leaded petrol and tobacco.

FORBES: Connect

At this point, people sometimes point to the strong-selling Galaxy S3 as proof that Android sells well at high price points.

FORBES: Android, China and Addressable Markets

Foley believes that this is proof that Microsoft is in this business to build a high-quality product and not simply to beat Apple and scare its partners into building better products.

FORBES: Can Microsoft Sell a Few Million Surface Tablets?

This all tallies with the idea of Atom coming to some high volume Android products -- and it's very possible that we'll see proof of that at Computex next week.

ENGADGET

Electronic gadgetry is tricky to use around high explosives of the sort used for bomb triggers, and it is hard to make any monitoring device reliably tamper-proof.

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