Challenges In The News 05/11/08

Anderson Silva is the longest reigning champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He hasn’t lost in five UFC fights, and his most serious challenger in the middleweight division is Temecula’s Don Henderson, whom Silva fights tonight at UFC 82 in Columbus, Ohio.

“What have you accomplished within your arena? Have you challenged yourself?”

These religious perspectives move millions and are essential as ancient faith traditions engage New World historical challenges. The teachings come first. And though many may not follow them, there is growing recognition that they invite more universal moral vision and values for an environmentalism thus far shaped primarily by science and law.

When asked what’s important, what comes forward here are values: Home, Family, Stewardship, Peace, Healing and Restoration. When this inquiry has been authentic and sustained, organizations report that it has revitalized mission, refreshed message and renewed long-term purpose, especially in a challenging political climate.

Nevada is the nation’s fastest-growing state what makes managing natural resources a challenge.

The challenge is in identifying how best to protect both the ecology and human populations at each place.

Even so, the biggest challenge is negotiating with the fishermen, says Young, now chairman of Friends of Nature. “We’d like them to give up fishing aggregations totally, but I don’t think that we’ll get that.”

Hikers will find a challenge to scale to Hoye Crest on Backbone Mountain, at 3,360 feet the highest point in the state, but the views will be well worth the journey.

In the mid-1990’s Beck and I did business with Outdoor Life magazine because of its new editor, Steve Byers. Periodically, and always briefly, the big hook-and-bullet magazines get religion and hire smart, tough editors who understand the real threats to fish and wildlife and dare to challenge readers to thought and action even if it means offering them facts they don’t want to know. “You don’t lose readers by pissing them off,” Byers used to tell me. “You lose readers by boring them.”

Clinton and Obama challenged each others position.

The Land Cruiser comes with standard four-wheel drive (which neither the Escalade nor the Navigator can say). During the week, I drove the Land Cruiser, I challenged it’s off-roading abilities as most Americans who load up their family of four do: Cruise to work, grocery shop, take a side trip to the dry cleaners.