In non-fiction, Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide (Hamish Hamilton) has far more staying power than the ripped-from-his-own-headlines topic might suggest, laying out a powerful and persuasive case for the duty to defend our fast-disappearing privacy.
Another headline topic was social finance.
Keeping our drinking water clean and contaminant-free is a concern of many policy makers and scientists, and it was the headlining topic at the inaugural Environmental Health Summit of the Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative held 10 11 November 2008 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
A year ago I kicked off my new iGCSE physics course by handing out the syllabus and asking two questions: "What do you know already?" followed shortly afterward by "OK, so where shall we start?" After some group discussion we mapped out a rough path through the headline topics, formed some teams and got started.
While police and legal dramas often use ripped-from-the-headlines topics as the basis of episodes, rarely do broadcast networks allow themselves to stray into the middle of heated debates that contain such emotional touchstones for large segments of their audience, if only because another big segment of a network's audience is likely to be on the other side of the debate.
Recent headline topics on the site have ranged from gay rights in Taiwan to U.S. foreign policy.
The foreclosure crisis, women's rights, the immigrant experience and homelessness are the headline topics of these pictures, but they are all also deeply invested in the human dramas underneath.
His new novel is called Old Men in Love, which only headlines the topic that has dominated his fiction for several years.
If Bitly News could segment the top headlines by topic (politics, tech, national, world, sports, entertainment), I'd find it more useful.
Now you can use posts to test headlines and topics you're thinking about writing.
Arrive at events prepared -- skim newspaper headlines for topics of conversation or research attendees beforehand so you can chat about areas of common interest.
