Just OOC, how can you say that Singapore has a greater degree of scientific freedom? I mean, things may be crappy here under W, but the whole point is that W is making our country more like Singapore (i.e., more like a police state) by taking away freedoms and civil rights. (Don't get me wrong, either, I'm not putting down Singapore, just saying that it's not where I'd choose to live). Maybe I'm mistaken about the scientific community in Singapore and it stands apart from the Stazi-like government, but after some conversations with other chemists from Singapore that now live in the US, my guess is that chemists that leave the US don't wind up going to Singapore.