11.   Earlier this month, after elections that changed its makeup, the board adopted new science standards that emphasize evolution.

12.   Evolution could lose its leading role in new state science standards when the Kansas Board of Education acts this week.

13.   Four of them are held by board members who voted for the new science standards.

14.   He and a group called the National Committee for Excellence in Science Education are trying to help the Kansas board rewrite its science standards to exclude evolution.

15.   Hill said last week that the Abrams version of the science standards is dead.

16.   In a Republican primary on Tuesday, voters defeated three conservatives who supported the new science standards, in favor of moderates who want evolution to be taught.

17.   In the first board election since then, voters chose instead three moderate Republicans who pledged to return evolution to the science standards.

18.   In the ensuing national and international flap over the science standards, Gamble held fast to her feeling that the state board had overstepped its bounds.

19.   In the new science curriculum standards, evolution is presented as one of five unifying concepts that cut across the scientific disciplines.

20.   It also tied into first-grade science standards, which require lessons about nutrition, she said.