11.   Probably the hottest topic of conversation among drivers is the battle to unionize the industry.

12.   Questions about the fairness of class-action settlements that bar further lawsuits are among the hottest legal topics facing business today.

13.   Questions about when stockowners can be forced to abide by those settlements are among the hottest topics in the legal world today.

14.   Roy Bragg, a San Antonio Express-News columnist, writes twice weekly on the Texas Lotto, the hottest topic in Texas.

15.   That is suggested by the numbers on the second hottest topic in the survey, which happens to be a component of the budget controversy.

16.   The case even temporarily usurped the hallowed Cornhuskers football team as the hottest topic in town.

17.   The hottest topic around the Steelers a year ago was whether the defense was in the same class as the ones from the Steel Curtain era.

18.   The list changes and grows daily, Glassner explained, depending on what the media decide is the hottest scare topic of the day.

19.   The owners will meet today in Chicago, and the elimination of two franchises will be the hottest topic.

20.   This flurry of misguided interest has raised the public profile of what is probably the hottest topic among climatologists.