These delicate organs are easy to damage and can be subject to infection.

BBC: Re-conditioning lungs for transplant

It's also easy to overlook the damage inflicted on local ecosystems and economies -- a large portion of which are in the developing world -- as a consequence of current industrial-scale agriculture practices.

CNN: Futuristic farm shop grows food in synthetic veg patch

Because the bond program is so much smaller and more obscure, it was relatively easy for it to become collateral damage in the sequester.

FORBES: Sequester Shows Why States Should Be Wary Of Feds' Medicaid Expansion

Vehicle damage reports like CarFax are widely available on the Internet and make it easy to spot cars that have been suffered heavy flood damage, said Ricky Beggs, vice president and managing editor of Black Book, a guide to the wholesale market for used car dealers.

WSJ: What Happens to All Those Swamped Cars?

The surfcentres have a fruit-machine-like appearance with 500mhz computers under an angled-screen front that allows easy access to the keyboard but is designed to prevent damage from beer spillages.

BBC: 'Cyber pubs' log on

Banks have to work out the cost of the damage done by years of easy credit and gorging on complicated financial products (see article).

ECONOMIST: The world economy

"Migrants become easy targets at times of economic difficulty but introducing yet more tough measures to exclude people could damage our prospects for economic recovery, " said IPPR's Tim Finch.

BBC: Citizenship test plans published