Word: topicalism
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...such poisons when they destroyed chemical weapons at the huge Kamisiyah depot in southern Iraq. But one leading investigator, James Tuite, says the emphasis on Kamisiyah is just the Pentagon's way of denying the scope of the problem. Tuite, who did a ground-breaking Senate study on the topic in 1993, believes soldiers are ill because of widespread allied attacks on Iraq's chemical-weapons factories and depots during the 39-day air war that began Jan. 16, 1991. During that assault, the U.S.-led alliance destroyed 75% of Iraq's chemical-weapons production capability, along with 21 chemical...
...talking major blockbuster here: one of those great social-conscience flicks, like the way you folks at Disney handled genocide in Pocahontas (awesome!) or class struggle in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (way cool!). Only this one is about child labor, which is a hot topic every Christmas when the kids unwrap all these toys labeled "Made in Inner-City Dakar." Here's the treatment...
...masterwork--the best book in his field, and, in my opinion, the best single book on the topic, even though it was written more than 30 years ago," said Byrne Professor of Administrative Law Todd Rakoff...
...issue of racial preferences has been a hot topic in the news lately. Contentious debates have arisen all over the country surrounding policies of affirmative action and quotas. Activists have been forced to defend many long-standing programs against a rising backlash against what some dub as reverse-racism...
...main topic of Heaney's work is the religious strife between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland...