The surface at this stage is called a dry valley, and it is no longer deepened because no more streams flow through it.
No virilisation was reported; in particular, no voice deepening or clitoromegaly was noted.
On the contrary, at several reaches no significant deepening or widening was observed although roads/urban sewers and urban areas were identified in their catchment.
A single terrorist incident, they predicted, could explode the truce, prompt swift Israeli reprisals and perhaps provoke a no-holds-barred deepening of the violence.
"There was in the original communique no mention of deepening the single market in services," he said.
Israel, he said, has "no interest in deepening the conflict with Gaza – the absolute opposite is true".
Western governments, while carefully balancing their interests, should lose no time in deepening engagement with promising leaders, including younger ones in government.
The news flashes leave no doubt of deepening unrest — sixteen people, including two policemen, were killed in Xinjiang on Sunday, in a clash that we are unlikely to learn much more about.
It put the warning starkly: "A tightly controlled society in which people only do as they are told, are utterly subservient, and in which there is no freedom of action, will meet a rapid end".Mr Hu did admit a need for "greater political courage and vision", and said the party should "lose no time in deepening reform in key sectors".
