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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 09:10:15 EDT
Subject: Pichugin's lab

Dr. Yuri Pichugin has now been in Michigan for two months, and although we 
have obtained a building for his research laboratory--within walking distance 
of the main CI facility--and have secured most of the equipment he needs, the 
lab itself required considerable modification, which has not yet been 
completed but should be soon.

Needless to say, the research agenda is heavily loaded, the main problem 
being prioritization among the many inviting lines of work. Our first 
priority is to test and evaluate some of the relatively quick and simple 
improvements in procedure that Dr. Pichugin has suggested. We intend to stick 
to our policy of making changes only after direct evaluation, which now will 
be both by independent agencies and by Dr. Pichugin's own methods.

On a personal note, Yuri likes our area of Michigan better than Los Angeles. 
He has a nice apartment in a large apartment complex within walking distance 
of the facilities. There is lots of greenery and park-like areas, squirrels 
and rabbits. He has a bicycle and is learning to drive a car. (Speaking of 
animals, Connie Ettinger planted large expanses of impatiens this year, only 
to see most of them eaten by deer--yes, wild deer in Franklin, a suburb of 
Detroit.)

Everything takes longer than expected, and costs more than expected, as 
expected. But we are moving forward, and the pace should quicken.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
www.cryonics.org  

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