Challenges In The News Today

A Global Health Challenge
- (PBS Ad)

The next epidemic could be a plane ride away. As the world gets smaller, we need to get smarter. That’s why PBS is bringing you one of the largest health and education initiatives of our time: a groundbreaking effort to make the world a healthier place for all of us.

Spark a change of global proportions.

DO-IT-YOURSELF DIVA
- (LA Times Home, January 26, 2006)

Hollywood Regency’s theatrical mix of modern furniture, ornate antiques and glamorous patterns can be hard to putt off, especially in a family home. Novice Cristi Conaway was up to the challenge.

Sports Challenges

Challenge to NHL union struck down
- (USA Today, January 24, 2006)

The U.S. Department of Labor dealt a blow to a group of dissident players, dismissing their challenge of the NHL Players Association.

Euphoric Seattle Now Faces Super Challenge
-(LA Times Sports – january 24, 2006)

Automotive Challenges

KEYES 2006 CHALLENGE
- (LA Times Ad)

We’re out to sell 2006 vehicles in January and we’ll do whatever it takes!

XL a strange fit amid auto layoffs
- (Daily News – January 26, 2006)

Now, the Big Three face the challenge of squaring their costly sponsorship roles with the downbeat news of losses and employee layoffs. “This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities,” said Kevin Smith, a spokesman for General Motor Corp.’s Cadillace division, “It’s a time to scream to the clouds that we’re here and we’ve go great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?”

EPA Calls for End to Releases of Chemical in Teflon Process
- (LA Times – January 26, 2006)

“With its announcement today, the EPA is challenging an entire industry to err on the side of precaution and public safety and invent new ways of doing business,” said Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook.

Dalton Ross: I Will Survive
- (Entertainment Weekly – February 3, 2006)

Personally, I blame it all on Janu. Last year on Survivor: Palau, the Las Vegas showgirl was the first person eliminated in an immunity challenge and as a result was banished to an island where she had to fend for herself for a night.

AOL Challenge

... it is always a bit of a challenge when sending attachments to AOL.

Up to the Challenge
- (Cover, Advance For Nurses magazine – January 23, 2006)

Cover Story: Challenges of Rural Nursing

Pioneers Memorial Hospital promotes crosstraining, variety of responsibilities to meet seasonal staffing challenges.

Although literature regarding rural nursing challenges and advantages is sparse, one can easily find vague facts or factual generalizations.It is personal and there is variety for anyone up to the challenge of rual nursing.

Feng Shui Challenge
- (Wall Street Journal Home & Family – January 26, 2006)

Feng shui, an ancient Chinese art that traces back thousands of years, is meant to improve your life by arranging your home in a harmonious way. In the U.S., the art form has become a niche area of the booming interior-design industry.

Feng shui experts charge a fee ranging from 30 cents to one dollar per square foot or a flat fee.

A feng shui expert divides the home into eight or nine areas, where each zone represents a specific part of life; such as, health, romance, career or finances. The rooms are tweaked to direct good energy, or chi, into proper parts of the home, with particular attention to the main entrance, the bed, stove and work or office area. In addition, each room should have a balance between the five elements: earth, water, fire, wood and metal.