1.   After a last minute compromise with Gov. Gray Davis, the Legislature voted Wednesday to insert California into the emotionally charged national debate over racial profiling.

2.   But a highly charged debate over how to run the census has reached the Supreme Court.

3.   But this year, the public has witnessed the gradual deterioration of that relationship, often played out through emotionally charged debates over school policy.

4.   Companies that run schools for dropouts are a little talked-about segment of the highly charged national debate over privatizing public schools.

5.   Contemporary debates, as most emotionally charged debates, press the positions to extremes.

6.   He introduced his ideas in the context of the highly charged debate on global warming.

7.   In the highly charged debate over human cloning, experts cite deformities and deaths in cloned animals as evidence that making genetic replicas of people would be dangerous.

8.   It is expected to also get involved in a highly charged similar debate now under way in New York state.

9.   It is meant as a moderating influence in the charged debate over gun rights.

10.   The governor will be wading into an emotionally charged debate, one that has become a polarized part of the national political scene.