You pass laws than essentially make private investments subject to public control. Don't be surprised if there is less investment in infrastructure.

This is the most important reason why cloning of humans is completely unacceptable.

"cloning mammals by nuclear transfer is still highly inefficient, with Dolly the only lamb that survived to adulthood from 277 attempts"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep))

Is the company that does the cloning being open about this aspect of the procedure? If they are trying to pretend that they can evaluate the embryos created by nuclear transfer and only bring the least damaged ones to term, they are making a preposterous claim. The problem of evaluating a DNA sequence for all possible DNA damage is fantastically complicated, probably formally undecidable in the Alan Turning's terminology.

How many copies of these treasured pets are living a few pain-racked days in a laboratory?

Charles Kittel, Herbert Kromer, Thermal Physics
Consise, a small set of problems, at least look at every one

Hans Ohanian, Gravitation and Spacetime
Could prevent you from boggling at Misner, Thorne and Wheeler

Stephane Mallat, A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing
Thorough, a math processor here told us that the demand for rigor could invariably be handled by saying "Lebesgue limit theorem."

Cornelius Lanczos, The Variational Principles of Mechanics (a paperback from Dover books)
Classic introduction to the calculus of variations and analytic mechanics

Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill, The Art of Electronics
The first edition, before they threw in all the microprocessor stuff, is focused on what experimental physicists need to know.

One of the grand old men of analog chip design, Bob Pease, has written a column for years that you can read on the web.
http://www.elecdesign.com/Departments/DepartmentID/6/6.html
http://www.national.com/rap/