"These chemicals have been shown to affect the foraging behaviour of bees and damage bee brain function, " said Rachel Sharp, the chief executive officer of Wildlife Trusts Wales.

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We have no details yet on how the use of these rare in-game artifacts and abilities will affect the actual calculations of healing, damage, spells, etc. during combat against other players.

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The dilemma for America and Britain is that damage caused by bombing is likely to affect Iraq's oil exports, thereby affecting the amount of food and medicine that can be bought with the proceeds.

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It can adversely affect forests and crops, and is also linked with damage to plankton, the microscopic creatures at the bottom of the marine food chain.

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So spinal damage, a common cause of paralysis, does not affect these nerves.

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While the incident could damage Berlusconi's image abroad, Foot doubted it would affect his popularity in Italy.

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But if you've smoked, and then stopped there is irreversible damage, which combined with age-related decline can significantly affect their quality of life.

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Multiple factors could affect revenue loss, including the amount of finished goods inventory available, extent of the damage to the building and the equipment, the length of time for operations to resume back to full production.

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