When the two men reached the wet part of the track halfway around the lap, Hamilton slid off, handing the lead back to Raikkonen, who almost immediately lost it again by sliding off himself.

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The Falcons trailed 17-0 at one stage before battling back to a 29-27 victory and Bates believes the wet conditions played their part in the struggle.

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She said the loss of traditional grassland and wet summers were a large part of the problem.

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Ynys Hir has other areas of salt marsh and is also home to wet grassland and woodland - part of which is said to date back to the 17th Century.

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Its president Edmund King acknowledged that panic buying - as well as wet weather - may have played a part in the April-June fall.

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But the question of when and whether this part of Mars was once wet is likely to be kicked around at scientific meetings for years.

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Women should be aware that a wet T-shirt competition is an unofficial part of the day.

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And now Ike, this storm is likely to follow a very similar course to Gustav, again running over the Isle of Youth that was barren soil virtually, and the western part of the nation where they grow this very fine tobacco that got wet.

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Doctors at the Washington University School of Medicine investigated the role of macrophages, a part of the immune system, in the transition from the dry to the wet form of the disease.

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