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...Patent Office has initially rejected Livermore's key patents. Next month the House Science Committee will release a report that, sources tell TIME, will cite more cases of intellectual-property infringement committed by the weapons-making labs as they scrambled to find new raisons d'etre in the post-cold...
...Harvard team also contended that although regional conflicts do exist in the post-Cold War era, the scale is much smaller and there is a lack of technology involved in many conflicts that makes the use of nuclear weapons less likely...
...post-Cold War world there is "no longera strict framework in which situations ofpotential calamity can be worked out," he said...
...guide. Nations are not some natural, organic phenomenon but complex accumulations of strength, alliances and enmities. And the passion for nationhood has swung between eras of consolidation and fragmentation: the single-state world of the Roman Empire; the 500-odd nations of the 1500s Renaissance. In the post-cold war age, people impatient with the map they've inherited appear to be caught in between. A globalized economy is melting down the relevance of nationhood at the same time that the dispossessed's unrealized yearnings to be a state are gaining legitimacy...
...nations of the world must work together to overcome such post-Cold War problems as pollution and scarce natural resources, Robinson said. Developed nations must particularly look to the difficulties of less-developed countries, she said...