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Wired News: American Passports to Get Chipped  by dmv at  7:04 pm EDT, Oct 21, 2004 |  
] Diplomats and State Department employees will be issued ] the new passports as early as January, while other ] citizens applying for new passports will get the new ] version starting in the spring.  So if you're going to get a new passport and don't feel comfortable with this... act now.  |  
  
 
Wired News: American Passports to Get Chipped  by k at 10:52 am EDT, Oct 22, 2004 |  
] "It is actually quite hard to read RFID at a distance," ] said Want. [ Is it? -k]  |  
  
 
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