Richard Lugg is a Maine neighbor of mine who has a company called HyperMach that is working on hyper-sonic jet engines for aviation and aerospace applications.

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Further, thanks to planned investments by companies like Cisco, 3Com, Lucent, Microsoft, United Technologies, Motorola and Texas Instruments, if Congress approves normal trade with China, expect American and world markets to be flooded with ever higher-tech Chinese goods: broadband routers, telecommunications switches, semiconductors, servers, applications software and aerospace engine parts.

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