The point is a vital barrier protecting the deep water channels along which shipping travels to the Humber ports.
When Sandy hit, water rushed in from the bay and a network of water channels, flooding hundreds of homes south of the Belt Parkway.
Peering through his telescope on the roof of the Palazzo di Brera, in Milan, Schiaparelli had seen what looked like oceans, continents, and water channels swim into view.
Instead, differences in composition between warm-water and cold-water ion channels were the result of a phenomenon called RNA editing, in which special enzymes alter the structure of the RNA messenger, and thus of the final protein.
The top layer contains hundreds of control channels through which pressurized water is pumped.
The milestone generated chatter at water coolers and on business news channels.
The two researchers suspected that the channels found in warm-water species would not work well in the freezing temperatures that their polar cousins endure.
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But mindful of a barrage of criticism following last year's festival, festival organiser Michael Eavis - who has announced the festival will continue for a further five years - has spent the last six months working on new drainage channels to siphon off excess water.
He said the floodwater had deposited a bank of soil in the channels they had built to take water away from the turbine and back into the River Rea.
In the case of myelin, the water in healthy tissue flows along well-defined channels.
The Aswan high dam, for example, is often cited as a cautionary example, a quixotic construction that now reduces the mighty Nile to a dribble before it trickles to the sea, leaving behind an explosion of water hyacinth, outbreaks of bilharzia, polluted irrigation channels and a build-up of sediment inland that would otherwise compensate for coastal erosion from Egypt to Lebanon.
But many of the necessary irrigation channels were themselves destroyed in the tsunami, while the water sources that feed them may also have been contaminated.
"We could have perhaps helped to divert the water and put in sand bags to protect the cricket square and the drainage channels we have dug over the years on the rugby pitches, " he said.
Now scientists peering below the surface have uncovered the first evidence of underground channels apparently created by flooding a finding that's expected to further illuminate the role of water in Mars' history.
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