Challenges In The News 04/23/08

As the world’s population and its needs continue to rise, we too must rise to the challenge they present.

You speak in your story about “the challenges of diversity.” A portion of the area’s diversity was certainly conspicuous by its absence.

When disaster hit other areas of our Rotarian world in the past several years, we contributed in the relief efforts; when disaster hit in our own back yard, our members stepped up to the challenge.

The smell, the sounds, the sights, the slowness of it, was extremely challenging for that team.

The challenge Scott is referring to is a US$100 million challenge grant for polio eradication from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which Rotary will match dollar-for-dollar over three years.

Nike wouldn’t disclose the number of members to its Nike+ Web site but has said previously that roughly 1,000 runners sign up daily. In addition to tracking their progress on the site, users can join social-network components where they can, for instance, share workout goals and participate in workout challenges.

He was scheduled to visit the White House today for a Rose Garden endorsement by President Bush. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, calling his GOP campaign “the journey of a lifetime,” dropped his challenge late Tuesday and pledged to work for McCain’s election in the fall.

Republicans are criticizing Democrats for failing to address the long-term fiscal challenges posed by entitlement programs and for assuming expiration of many of the tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003. And, though Republicans generally oppose the so-called paygo rule, they criticized for “gaming” it.

For Howard, the rewards and challenges of performing in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof have provided contrasts to his work on screen. “In film, you don’t get time to rehearse. You’ll have 10 minutes to block something, and you always walk away saying, ‘Damn, I should have tried that.’

Arizona Sen. John McCain claimed the Republican Party’s nomination for president last night (March 5, 2008), vowing to run a respectful campaign based on principles, but now faces a daunting challenge: how to transform his tight-knit, shoestring primary into a machine able to win the presidency. One of the immediate challenges for Sen. McCain will be to figure out how to grow the operation. His campaign is powered by a central brain trust of five close advisers, none of whom is being paid. The campaign is beginning to strategize in which states it will mount challenges, looking to compete in reliably Democratic states including New Jersey, Conneticut and the biggest prize, California.

The Arizona senator ticked off a list of ongoing foreign challenges, including a rollback of democracy in Russia, increasing violence in the Middle East and Venezuela’s threat of war toward Columbia.