Yes, if French and Portuguese uses 98%+ identical written grammar and vocabulary.

So, no.

A famous case was Qian Xuesen. He was one of the fathers of the American rocket and space programs and one of the founders of JPL. McCarthyism was responsible for deporting him and enabling Mainland China to develop a nuclear and space program.

Herman Miller (MLHR) is down about 1% today.

Vancouver's real estate market is nuts.

A friend of mine owns a single family home 2 houses from a fire station, on a major 4-lane boulevard, under the Sky Train, and in a neighborhood known for break-ins.

He just sold for $950,000 to a condo developer.

I've got lots of family in Vancouver and Toronto, and their waits are no worse than mine in Seattle. This article says that 46159 Canadians went abroad (notice it doesn't say which country) for medical care. Out of a country with a population of 33.5 million, that's 0.14% of the population. Sounds like their health care system is an undisputed resounding success to me. The people using Canada as a political talk point are just plain sad. In this age of Google there's just no excuse.

True. In my case, my wife was in excruciating pain from an ulcer in an ER and it was a good 2-hour wait. This was in a highly rated hospital 1.5 miles away from the Microsoft campus close to luxury car dealerships.

GE donates stuff like this for the same reason that Microsoft donates software - market penetration. When those machines reach end-of-life, they're much more likely to buy one from GE as a replacement.

Most 3 series (as well as all other BMWs and other luxury makes) are leased, so payments are indeed around $300/month.

"Real high quality ones from IITs"

Back in the early 2000s, I always chuckle when I come across resumes with "IIT" on it. I swear, 4 out of 5 of those turn out to be from Illinois Institute of Technology.

And plus many are single-child brats with 4 doting servants, uh, grandparents.

The people are already dead. Rather than saying sorry for something you haven't actually done to someone you haven't even done it to ...but we're going to do better."

Except they're still enshrining dead war criminals and not imprisoning ones who are still alive. So they clearly have no intention of doing it better. It's not hard to see why people in East Asia are still so sore about this topic. No one would fault the Simon Wiesenthal Center for "being upset" - and Rommel and Goebbels aren't even posthumously celebrated after death in a grand cathedral in Germany like their peers are in Japan.

The apologies would probably be much more believable and accepted if they had not been housing convicted Class A war criminals in a war hero shrine all this time.

Imagine Goebbels enshrined in the Cathedral of Cologne in the present day.

Finance Minister Taro Aso has come under fire for comments that some listeners interpreted as suggesting Tokyo should look to Nazi Germany as a model in changing its pacifist constitution.

Reference the following article about Japan's newest crop of "Grass Eaters":

http://gaijinchronicles.com/2010/08/31/plight-of-the-grass-eater

Choice quote from the article: "When a guy in the developmental stages sees girls his age swooning over the [sensitive, sissy guy] type, this sets a precedent within his brain â" this is what girls like, and if you want to be what girls like, you have to be like this. It may not even be an active choice, but something that just fires subconsciously in his brain. So the seed has been planted. Granted, Japanese guys have taken this sissy seed and watered and nurtured it into a massive pussy forest, but thatâ(TM)s just the special Japanese skill of taking everything to hardcore extremes."

But to be fair, macho Americans have their own massive crops of sissy men with a large female following.

Starting his trek with Hong Kong was a brilliant move. A US passport holder can go to Hong Kong without a visa (automatically granted for 90 days) and still get high-level diplomatic coverage from the Chinese if international scuffles like these arise.