Challenges In The News 06/18/08

Students at Diamond Valley Middle School in Hemet are taking on a challenge that may lead to a new fitness center on campus. The Governor's Challenge is a program sponsored by the California Governor's Council that aims to promote physical fitness for all Californians, particularly the youths.

Unlike last postseason, when the Magic appeared a bit awestruck while being swept by the Pistons in the first round, they seem a little more warm to the challenge. "Last year was last year and this is this year," Dwight Howard said. "... Our concern is coming back this year playing harder and better. We're a lot more mature now."

URBANA – A hearing has been set for an effort to take a Republican state representative candidate off the ballot. Champaign firefighter Pat Devaney is challenging the organization papers of University of Illinois student Frank Calabrese, who is running as a Republican against incumbent state Rep. Naomi Jakobsson for the 103rd District seat.

JAVIER MASCHERANO has urged Liverpool to erase their Champions League misery by launching a sustained challenge for the Premier League title next season.

Trade associations whose representatives met Thursday are expected to go ahead with a referendum challenge to new taxes for Maine's Dirigo Health program. Business interests meeting today are expected to go ahead with a referendum challenge to a new funding mechanism for Maine's Dirigo Health program. "I don't think there's any question they're going to do it," said Maine State Chamber of Commerce President Dana Connors.

A helicopter transported Ohio University Army ROTC students to a field training challenge in Indiana yesterday, but participants say the event is just practice for tests to come.

The Asthma and Respiratory Foundation is marking World Asthma Day on 6 May, 2008 by laying down a challenge to New Zealand’s political parties to come up with some robust approaches to tackling the huge asthma problem in this country.

Geologists call into question three decades of conventional wisdom regarding some of the physical processes that helped shape the Earth as we know it today. New research provides a direct challenge to the popular "late veneer hypothesis," a theory which suggests that all of our water, as well as several so-called "iron-loving" elements, were added to the Earth late in its formation by impacts ...

One of the state's most power political bosses has survived a challenge to his control over Summit County's Republicans.

Sir Alex Ferguson warned Chelsea that over-confidence could wreck their Premier League title challenge after Manchester United moved closer to retaining the crown with a 4-1 win over West Ham on Saturday.

The Brisbane Broncos turned on the skill to see off a second-half challenge by the Tigers and claim top spot on the NRL ladder with a 34-22 win at Sydney's Olympic stadium on Saturday evening.