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Kansas is a key flashpoint in this struggle. Back in 1999, a conservative state school board attempted to downplay the importance of Darwinism by removing from the required statewide science curriculum references to dinosaurs, the geological time line and other central tenets of the theory. Evolution, they argued, is "just a theory" and should not be favored over other theories, such as I.D. In the next election, Kansas voters gave moderates an edge on the school board, which promptly dropped the effort to revise the curriculum. In the 2004 election, however, conservatives retook the board, and while a curriculum advisory...
...port city. And the arrival of all these immigrants was basically a volcanic eruption, and the ashes changed the global climate. Irish people poured into the Five Points [section of Lower Manhattan], and they became a large part of this criminal underclass. They were just waiting for this flashpoint of civil riot to express their rights and loot the city...
...great leader of the Nativists, somebody who almost became a folk hero. There were definite changes as it was adapted into a screenplay; it's not entirely specific. But it gives you a feel of what it would be like to be immersed in the Five Points in this flashpoint of history...
...their jeep broke down near the Casbah. It'll be past midnight when Tibon visits the scene; right now he must coordinate the evacuation of the two men, who have leg wounds. But he can't disguise his annoyance that the jeep was alone at such an obviously dangerous flashpoint in the first place, and he issues firm orders to border police commanders not to send their men into Nablus without his knowledge. Tibon strides to an observation point and trains his binoculars on the ambush site. He's ordered retaliation on the area from which the Palestinian shots originated...
Incompatible with laws in Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere mandating employee representation on boards The issue risks becoming a new flashpoint in trade relations between the U.S. and the European Union, already strained by disputes over steel tariffs and tax breaks for American exporters. E.U. Commissioner Frits Bolkestein complained in a letter to sec chairman Harvey L. Pitt on Aug. 29 that "the implementation of some of the provisions of the Act might have undesirable extraterritorial consequences or they might create unnecessary difficulties for European companies." Among his concerns: a new U.S. body that will oversee auditing firms will regulate...