Any state in a border dispute with another can petition directly to the high court under judicial powers defined in Article III of the Constitution, according to Joseph Zimmerman, a political-science professor at the UniversityatAlbany, StateUniversityofNewYork, and the author of several books on interstate disputes.
But the politics of all of these measures is tricky and the stakes are high, said Alan Lizotte, dean and professor at the School of Criminal Justice at the StateUniversityofNewYorkatAlbany.
According to Pradeep Haldar, vice president of clean energy programs at the College of Nanoscale Science at the UniversityofAlbany in NewYorkState, nanotechnology can be viewed along two lines: evolutionary science and revolutionary science.