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Hopes that the end of the Cold War would revitalize basic research have been disappointed for good reasons, but politicians must restrain their expectations of research — and their impatience.
Wildlife conservation is incompatible with global markets or private ownership. What is needed is a 'tribal' system of management such as that in North America that creates both wealth and jobs while sustaining resources.
The ubiquitous Ising lattice has been used to model competitive ordering forces such as may account for some of the properties of the copper-oxide planes in ceramic superconductors.
