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 t in recent years, lowerlevel NASA scientists have increasingly complained that they are being squeezed too hard, and that the agency's work is suffering. Then last year, failures began mounting: Two Mars probes were lost, shuttle flights were delayed, and the Hubble Space Telescope was forced to temporarily shut down, among other letdowns.NASA management ordered up a series of reviews. In general, they have pointed to a loss of talent, poor oversight of contractors, and costcutting as major reasons for the agency's troubles. The Mars Climate Orbiter review board said that the simple failure to convert measurements into metric units misdirected the craft and likely sent it skipping into space last September. NASA should have caught the mistake, said the report.Even now, NASA may be operating on the edge of high, unacceptable risk on some projects, said the study.The reports paint a picture of an agency that is not so much badly managed as thinly managed, says space policy expert John Pike of the Federation of Ame
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 's league misunderstood the nature of the fan base for women's soccer. Soccer is one of the prime success stories of Title IX  the law that guaranteed sexual equality in school sports. Throughout suburbia, girls (and their parents) have taken to soccer  not only because females can play it well, but because its skills aren't based on how big you are. The swarms of boys and girls who take the field together in suburban leagues each Saturday morning would shock the more macho European or South American soccer fan.In fact, this custom has become so rooted in modern American life that soccer mom is a fixed political term for describing the whole middleclass niche of suburbanites who are culturally liberal and economically conservative. According to the truism, these swing voters drive SUVs or station wagons as they cart their kids around to school, various lessons, and, of course, to soccer practice.Yet, these soccer families love watching one another play soccer  not necessarily watching strangers play it. It takes
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