From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>

Hi,

It seems that scientist in general may soon be forced to roam from country to country to practice their work.

Shades of Neuromancer. I am more and more convinced that Gibson's book, and it's social commentary, is right on the mark.

Forwarded message:

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X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9809/07/clone.seed.ap/

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CHICAGO PHYSICIST SAYS HE'LL CLONE HIMSELF WITH WIFE'S HELP

Dr. Richard Seed Richard Seed September 7, 1998 Web posted at: 3:50 a.m. EDT (0750 GMT)

BOSTON (AP) -- A physicist with three Harvard degrees but no medical license said he is ready to begin the first step toward immortality: he will clone himself.

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Seed has said that if Congress bans cloning, he will move his operation to Tijuana, Mexico.

But if the feds pull similar bullshit as with crypto work he'll have to give up US citizenship to do the work. The regs for crypto appear to make it such that even if I live permanently outside the US I can not work on or produce crypto related products even if they are based on non-US technologies. It seems that being a citizen of the US is less and less attractive every day... Albert P. Franco, II