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...FLASHPOINT NO. 1: ABORTION...
...FLASHPOINT NO. 2: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION...
...hope to Democrats who were beginning to think that President George W. Bush had once again outmaneuvered them by taking the national-security high ground in an election year. The report, called "Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States," is dated April, but became a political flashpoint this week after The New York Times learned of its sensational conclusion that the war in Iraq had the unintended consequence of "breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement...
...certain events that leave their mark on pop culture, there comes a flashpoint when everyone's talking about the same thing. Call it the Bennifer blitz, the Monica moment, the Janet Jackson distraction. Ground down and fed up by news that matters, Americans lock their vision on a movie-star romance, a sex scandal, a Super Bowl oops as tabloid headlines and talk-show hosts exploit and orchestrate the public's evanescent fervor...
...Esalen institute?the 44-year-old spiritual retreat once infamous as a flashpoint of the hippy movement?is offering a spectacular new high. And this time, it has nothing to do with the LSD-inspired antics of past luminary visitors such as Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. Instead, the not-for-profit seminar center?set amid a spectacular 165 acres of California's Big Sur coastline?has thrown open its extensively renovated thermal-spring baths to the public. You need to pay a $20 fee and make an advance reservation...