(Scott Duncan) wrote in message om...
The news today about Boeing building the 7E7 and giving the wing to
Japan to build sounds like it was taken directly out of the text of
Micheal Crichton's book Airframe, where some unscrupulous executives
at an ailing aircraft manufacturer give away closely guarded secrets
to turn a quick profit at the cost of future American jobs. Is this
really good news for Boeing...?

Michael Crichton is rabidly anti-Japanese, as his novel "Rising Sun"
amply demonstrates. For further proof of his racism and use of racial
epithets, see his novel "Congo", where he describes Japanese and
Chinese businessmen as "slants" and "chinks".