Pollutants damage habitats, kill corals or slow their growth and could be linked to outbreaks of attacks from coral-eating crown of thorns starfish.
Reduce that to two and there may be an outbreak of heart attacks.
Rattled by a sudden outbreak of Tory attacks on the constitution, the Blair government is playing down the significance of the whole exercise.
And the second has been thrown into question by a recent outbreak of Protestant attacks on Catholic homes and by rising anti-Catholic violence in advance of the annual season each July when Protestants conduct marches and light bonfires to celebrate victories over Catholics centuries ago.
The boycott, intended to protest Russian anti-gay legislation and a recent outbreak of violent attacks on the country's gay citizens and advocates, was initiated last week when columnist Dan Savage urged readers to "dump Stoli" and other Russian spirits on the Slog, a blog from Seattle-based weekly newspaper The Stranger.
Indeed, such fears were key in provoking the current outbreak of suicidal attacks by young knife-wielding Palestinians.
Refugee camps were established in May last year to house thousands of foreign nationals displaced in an outbreak of xenophobic attacks that claimed up to 60 lives.
At the outbreak of the attack, her crew was distracted by the initial assault on Ford Island and was buzzed by a flight of Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers.
Offers like that probably didn't stream into the offices of Sony Inc., CitiGroup, the CIA, the US Senate, or the International Monetary fund after they'd been attacked in early June's wild outbreak of high-profile attacks.
But unlike most couriers, aid donors operate amid chaos, with rapidly changing constraints (surges of people, outbreaks of disease, attacks by warlords).
France suffered an outbreak of anti-Muslim attacks following the Charlie Hebdo shootings, but such crimes were already on the rise.
