Good Grief.
It is Soooooooooooo exactly like that.
It is flat-out knock-your-socks-off Sully-Your-Pants-with-the-Boot-Kick Real what Fred sees.
In my industry, it is apalling -- A New-Orleans style -- everything washed away with the tide -- phenomenon.
I have never heard it so eloquently put.
http://fredoneverything.net/FOE_Frame_Column.htm
(snip) You think I exaggerate? Ha. Checking the staff of the University of Central Floridas school of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, I discover that most of Mumbai has already moved to America. Shanghai too. There follows an unedited list:
Ranganathan Kumar, Linan An, Quanfang Chen, Ruey-Hung Chen, Larry Chew, Hyoung Jin "Joe" Cho, Louis C. Chow, Kevin R. Coffey, Ted Conway, Vimal Desai, Jiyu Fang, A. Henry Hagedoorn, Olusegun Illegbusi, Roger Johnson, Samar Jyoti Kalita, Jayanta Kapat, Aravinda Kar, Alain Kassab, Christine Klemenz, Alexander Leonessa, Kuo-Chi "Kurt" Lin, Antonio Minardi, Faissal Moslehy, Jamal F. Nayfeh, David Nicholson, Eric L. Petersen, Sudipta Seal, Yongho Sohn, C. "Sury" Suryanarayana, Raj Vaidyanathan, Quan Wang, Fang Xu, Richard Zarda.
If that aint a hotbed of Anglo-Saxon achievement...