The playground mice were able to remember the shock test far better than the mice in other cages.

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The next hitch-hikers she plans to subject to a shock test are bacterial spores, which some have proposed arrived on Earth via comets to jump-start evolution.

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That's led to a case of sticker shock for test takers, nonprofits and states.

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The Swedish insurance company Folksam found it performed at least three times better than 12 conventional helmets in a test for shock absorbency.

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In accordance with Casio's own standard with reference to the US MIL-STD-810F Method 516.5-Shock, the camera passed a test in which it was dropped from a height of 2.13 meters (7 feet) onto lauan plywood at 26 different angles.

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But the inclusion of players such as Ashley Giles, who had missed more than a year of Test cricket because of injury, came as a shock to Cooley.

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We do know that Microsoft has been working on IPTV stuff for years now (they already offer a set-top box-based system that's being test marketed by a handful of telcos around the world), so it wouldn't be a shock to see them try and leverage the Xbox 360 as a platform.

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