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From: Daniel Reeves <dreeves &AElig umich.edu>
Subject: Re: mind the gap
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>> NASA, as a government agency, has the freedom to set goals 10 or 20 
>> years in the future. Would this be possible for a publicly-traded 
>> company? I would say no.
>
> Yahoo has a world-class research lab in which scientists are paid to write 
> academic papers.  That's pretty long-term thinking.

Oh, and the founder/CEO has no salary, only stock.


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