Challenges In The News 06/24/08

Her story was selected by a panel of experts to be featured in the fifth annual USA TODAY Weight-Loss Challenge in the newspaper and online at dietchallenge.usatoday.com. This year’s challenge, which ends next Monday, focuses on weight-loss champions who have inspired other people to lose weight.

Bred for Belmont: If Big Brown can take another step toward the Triple Crown by winning the Preakness, it is already clear he will face a mighty challenge June 7 in the Belmont Stakes.

The Democratic National Committee, meanwhile, is challenging McCain’s credentials as an environmentalist.
Highlighting the many challenges ahead, however, a Red Cross boat carrying rice, drinking water and other goods for more than 1,000 people sank Sunday near hard-hit Bogalay town. All four aid workers on board were safe.

The next challenge sill be to weather the economic downturn.

More than 23,000 financial-related U.S. job cuts were announced last month, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas Inc.
In a conference call, Mr. Sullivan said he had “no illusions about the challenges ahead,” but added, “We have plans to address the issues we face.” He called downgrades by two credit-ratings firms “very manageable for us.”

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There are students, usually from upper-income homes – who will always have advocates. We want to give that same opportunity to kids whose parents maybe are working two jobs, who aren’t engaged with the system but with survival and other challenges and whose children end up without advocates. They are also apt to push the limits at home and at at school, challenging parents and teachers and generally opposing structure and authority.

The incumbent and the challenger agree on one point: The flap has injection some energy into a campaign that had not captured the public’s interest.
The county is facing broad challenges in its health services department that are some of the most difficult this decade: an oncoming budget deficit expected to exceed $1 billion within three years and a vacancy in the department’s top post.