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How NASA got a ‘UFO czar’—and why it matters

he real czars may be long gone, but for decades, the White House has been keeping the honorific alive, appointing a director to oversee a task or issue, and bestowing the title along with it. We’ve had the Ebola czar, the drug czar, the budget czar, the climate czar, and more. On Sept. 14, at a press conference at NASA’s Washington, D.C., headquarters, the space agency gave the

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