Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Challenges in the news - 01/29/2008

(HealthDay News) - It's often a challenge when breast-feeding moms must return to their jobs

World number one Justine Henin had to fight off a determined challenge from second seed Svetlana Kuznetsova to claim her 40th WTA tour title at the Sydney International tournament on Friday.

The move from a longtime family home to a senior living community is unlike any other. Often made amid changing needs and shifting family dynamics, the transition can be challenging for all involved. . Chris Rigby works for Senior Transitions, an agency that assists seniors in finding assisted living communities. She understands the challenges involved better than most.

The United States Supreme Court just announced that it will hear another six cases this term, including a case, Kennedy v. Louisiana, that will test that state's new law that makes child rape a capital offense. The announcement was made just a few days before Monday's oral argument in Baze v. Rees, a serious (and in my view long overdue) challenge to the nation's lethal injection statute and ...

A McDaniel College alumnus has pledged a $5 million challenge gift to the Westminster school's multimillion-dollar fundraising campaign.

DALLAS – Staying at Hawaii would have been the easy choice for June Jones. It was the challenge of rebuilding a tattered football program that led him to take the coaching job at Southern Methodist, which stumbled to a 1-11 record this season.

New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) Grandmaster and National chess champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly will spearhead the Indian challenge at the sixth Parsvnath International Chess tournament Jan 12 to 20 at Modern School Barakhamba Road here.

Indiana's strict law requiring voters to show current photo identification at the polls appears likely to survive a constitutional challenge before the Supreme Court. During oral arguments Wednesday, the Court's conservative majority raised potentially fatal concerns about whether the challengers had standing to sue, and whether the law should be attacked on its face before it takes effect and ...

LANSING, Mich. — A federal appeals court this week revived a challenge to the funding of the No Child Left Behind education law.

WASHINGTON | The Supreme Court appeared Wednesday to split along partisan lines as justices weighed a challenge to the nation's strictest requirement that voters show photo identification before casting a ballot.

The hopes and plans city leaders talked about two years ago are now coming to fruition, so there are great possibilities for Haverhill. But financially the city is in a tougher spot than in 2006, and therein lies the challenge for the city's newly elected officials.

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