Challenges In The News 06/16/08

The eighth Annual Globe Rotary Round Mountain Sunrise Challenge takes place on National Trails Day. The event is a challenging race/walk of 3.2 miles (5 K) taking place this year on June 7 at the Round Mountain Hiking Park on South Street.

Wentworth pro Ross Fisher relishes the challenge of his first US Open after qualifying for Torrey Pines.

FORMER Coldstream newsagent Eleanor Moffat has done more than her bit having raised a total of £33,000 but she he now off on her biggest challenge on Monday when she started a walk along the Great Wall of China. (28/05/2008 14:05:47)

Growing up after Watergate and coming of age during the two Iraq Wars, both Gen X and Gen Y are generally suspicious of big institutions. Independent, self-directed, and technologically savvy, reaching them is a challenge because they take everything with a grain of salt.

He’s going to offer a lot of challenges.

(Maria Sharapova) - “It will always be the roughest one (The French Open), but I love the challenge. The first week on clay is a challenge for me.”

Embrace the challenge.

Mounting delinquencies and foreclosures will result in continued unprecedented growth in real estate-owned (REO) property volumes, which poses a significant challenge for U.S. RMBS servicers, according to Fitch Ratings.

Philadelphia officials plan to challenge a lawsuit by the local Boy Scouts that seeks to stop the city evicting the group because of its no-gays policy.

Venturing Vortex 2005 - Venturing Vortex is a high adventure and leadership challenge program for Venturers, including Sea Scouts, and Explorers. The program content is derived from the Venturing and Ranger handbooks. The Venturers develop skills through hands-on participation in selected activities.

The Boy Scouts prevailed in nearly every lawsuit challenging the membership rules, including a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2000 that determined the organization has a First Amendment right of freedom of association, which meant it could determine its own requirements for members and leaders. The legal challenges outraged one Eagle Scout in particular - Texas Gov. Rick Perry. In February, Perry, a conservative Republican, published a book about scouting's struggle against what he termed "liberal elites" and the advocates of "free love and the quick fix of hallucinatory drugs." He's donating the proceeds of the book, "On My Honor," to the scouts' legal defense fund. "The Boy Scouts didn't go looking for this fight," Perry said in an interview with the Chicago Tribune. "The ACLU came after them. ... This attack on scouting is part of a larger cultural war. The Boy Scouts are basically just the sentinels standing watch for traditional values."