Now we are living in isolation, separated from fellow New Yorkers by a body of water.
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It seemed to be a city on a hill, with unsteady buildings teetering up its sides, a body of water lapping at its base.
The four men died after the Gleision drift mine flooded on 15 September 2011 after a retaining wall holding back a body of water failed.
One could simply drive up to and into a body of water and keep on going, thanks to dual outboard propellers and a (mostly) watertight body.
Stick one end in a body of water near your home and it will upload water purity information to the web via a built-in ZigBee module.
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Airsafe.com, a not-for-profit venture that compiles airline-safety statistics, notes only four cases in which a flight crew intentionally landed a commercial jet into a body of water.
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"A portion of the building was also constructed on land which had been a body of water before and was filled with rubbish, " he told the Associated Press news agency.
When the patient heads to a body of water to try to soothe the fiery pain, the worm deposits more larvae in the water, and the cycle starts over.
Living close to a body of water has its share of real estate perks water views, waterfront properties, private beaches, and personal boat launches are a few top-of-mind examples.
Remaining traces are indistinguishable in a body of water as enormous as the Gulf of Mexico and no different than the trace amounts that naturally seep from the ocean floor.
DC, which has been campaigning for several years for greater protection for sturgeon in the Caspian Sea a body of water that is the source of about 90% of the trade in caviar.
For example, if a person was last seen in a desert, it stands to reason that no one would guess that they would be found in a body of water, he points out.
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Even if the oil never hits the coast in significant quantities, it remains in the Gulf of Mexico, a body of water that cannot be as easily overlooked as Prince William Sound, Alaska.
By chance his brother, a teacher in Alaska, put him in touch with a small law firm that wanted help representing fishers in Cook Inlet, a body of water physically separated from the spill by the Kenai Peninsula.
In the Archtriumph competition for ideas for new crossings on the river Seine, a design firm won third place for its conceptualisation of a trampoline bridge, which is obviously the most fun way to cross a body of water anywhere, ever.
In a separate study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team led by Bethany Ehlmann, from Brown University, analysed sedimentary deposits in two deltas within Mars' Jezero crater - which once hosted a body of water measuring some 40km (25 miles) across.
The quake off Sumatra happened at around 0800 local time, causing a giant rupture in the sea bed, which set a huge body of water moving at a speed of up to 700kph.
The project calls for the off-white wind turbines in a 25-square-mile area in a shallow part of the sound, a triangular body of water surrounded by Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
But then a photo of him in a much smaller body of water a bathtub surfaced on the Internet Tuesday in what appears to be an ad for Louis Vuitton.
Even measuring the boundary of a static body of water is no mean feat.
Like nuclear power plants, advanced coal power plants can only be sited within about 20 miles of a large body of water to meet cooling needs.
If teens are swimming in a natural body of water like a lake or river, they should use the rule "feet first, first time" to prevent spinal injuries.
However, this year the Namibian department of water affairs announced the discovery of a significant body of underground water - an aquifer dubbed Ohangwena II - that scientists say could supply the north of the country with enough water for centuries.
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Although there are some similarities with the Gulf of Mexico, they argue that the Caspian is a closed body of water and much shallower.
"It is a beautiful body of water, " said Rondi Davies, an Australian-born science teacher living in Harlem who hopes to complete the last stage of her 120-mile swim Monday.
Faster than you could say, "Have your people call my people, " Aquabot was ready to be tossed into the pool, albeit a modest body of water by celebrity standards.
We drove to the "Free Body Culture" property, which involved a body of fresh water, expanses of bedraggled grass richly festooned with goose and duck droppings and a few stunted trees.
If a large body of water once existed on the red planet, the remainder of the water must now either be stored below the surface and in the much smaller south polar cap, or have been lost to space.
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