Technical issues relating to measures, thresholds, limits and costs of excess will be discussed, in both their material and intellectual dimensions, as well as the importance of interdisciplinarity to better understand and decide.

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The material, so thin it effectively has just two dimensions, was first isolated by two Russian-born scientists, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, at the University of Manchester, work that earned them a Nobel Prize and knighthoods.

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Putting aside for a moment the moral and security dimensions of this matter, I use the term "material" with regard to these non-financial concerns because of the advent of South African apartheid-type divestment campaigns and the prospect of economic sanctions against proliferators or other offenders which could impact adversely on the value of foreign equity and debt holdings (e.g. the Talisman case).

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The physicists state that the material contains multiple universes analogous to our own, but with three, rather than four dimensions.

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