: WASHINGTON - For more than 40 years, an elite group of academic scientists
: ... known simply as ``Jason,'' ...
: http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/3252347.htm
This stuff is so sad, so stupid & so unnecessary. The 'execs' do have something valuable to contribute. They would help the 'Jasons' keep one foot in the realm of the possible. The 'Jasons' would help the 'execs' push the state-of-the-art. Everybody wins. And it all could have been avoided if the government had been smart enough to put it to the 'Jasons' as a suggestion, instead of as an order. Now we all lose.