"We now need to know more about how early life conditions can influence the pattern of telomere loss and the relative importance of inherited and environmental factors, " she said.
The study - by the investigative arm of Congress - is intended to help understand the pattern of financial loss in New York so as to try to focus economic reconstruction efforts.
Whatever the models reveal about the pattern, impacts and nature of the loss of rainfall, it is hard to imagine that it will not be bad news of some sort.
In the week surrounding Christmas, the market consolidated even more tightly at the breakout level of the wedge pattern, giving traders an even tighter set of stop-loss parameters to measure their trade against.