For instance, early on it deemed the U.S. stock fall a "crisis," whereas most of China's domestic media did not want to excite people with such hot-button descriptions.
The first of two back-to-back episodes dealt with such hot-button topics as the aforementioned "Air Bud" controversy (Si thought it a better movie than "Bourne") the pitfalls of group-texting, the existence of Si-crobes (Si had fallen ill with "the bird flu") and the love women have for planning fancy parties.
But even more worryingly, dealing with water through such hot and variable weather becomes a nightmare.
And he finds the OU an ideal environment for the type of research he wants to do now, which is looking at technology not just from the point of view of new products, but "how does society cope with it, what's the economic and political ramifications?" So with distance education now such hot news, what's the OU's role, as the grandparent of a revolution?
Gilligan, who resigned from the BBC in January following the publication of the Hutton report, will re-examine the subject that landed himself and the corporation in such hot water with the government - the UK's intelligence services.
Hyman earned a reputation on Capitol Hill for handling such hot issues with skill.
In principle, of course, things could go the other way too, with climate change perhaps creating more such hot spots and increasing the efficiency of the disposal service.
With Iraq strategy a subject of such hot debate, Dr. Jaafari seemed a bit taken aback at the pressures of news coverage in Washington, racing from television interview to speeches to visits with wounded American soldiers, whom he thanked.
Off-key and off-beat, it was hard for me to understand why David Rees would choose to open his album with such a hot mess.
I am still that young gay man who watched his heterosexual friends love, lose, cry and go through the rituals of having a relationship while silently hating them all with such a hot jealousy that I am ashamed to admit it even now.
