From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 00:26:50 +0800
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Subject: Seed to clone himself, one way or another [CNN]
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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:

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

>           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 said his wife, Gloria, has agreed to carry an embryo that would
>    be created by combining the nucleus of one of his cells with a donor
>    egg, the newspaper said.

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>    The Chicago scientist has three Harvard degrees, including a Ph.D.,
>    but no medical degree, no money and no institutional backing. He has
>    vowed to produce a pregnancy with a human clone within 2 1/2 years.

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>    Two states, California and Michigan, have outlawed human cloning and
>    dozens of other states are considering bans.
>    
>    A five-year moratorium on cloning is apparently being observed by
>    mainstream scientists, but Congress has failed to act on legislation
>    to outlaw the procedure.
>    
>    Seed has said that if Congress bans cloning, he will move his
>    operation to Tijuana, Mexico.

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