Challenges In The News 10/19/08

ingeshinA super-sized challenge for food-police.

90th PGA Championship: Finishing strong will be tough assignment. Oakland Hills offers quite the challenge on final three holes.

Former state Rep. Jim Martin on Tuesday earned the right to challenge Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss by easily winning the Democratic primary runoff, in a contest in which Martin's supporters portrayed him as more "electable" than his controversy-hindered opponent, DeKalb County CEO Vernon Jones.

London: Kevin Pietersen embraces the toughest challenge of a career already packed with incidents and controversy, when he leads England against his native South Africa in the fourth Test at the Oval on Thursday.

No sprays to ward off bugs or encroaching crab grass and no nitrogen-based fertilizer to boost the yield make growing organic corn a definite challenge, said Wayne Hale of Evansville.

The popular Brain Challenge game is now available for the iPhone. Here is more info about the game:Just like your body, your brain needs to exercise to stay in shape.

Taking the plunge into a new challenge.

The new service is a direct challenge to Baidu.com Inc., at a time when the company is under increasing pressure to pay for facilitating music piracy, according to technology blog Ars Technica.

See it live tomorrow on The Almost a Gladiator Challenge.

An ‘Express’ challenge

Wayne County Treasurer Raymond Wojtowicz, 79, survived a contentious challenge from Wayne County Commissioner Philip Cavanagh to win the Democratic nomination for treasurer, a position he has held since 1976. Cavanagh finished second in the field of 11 candidates, but Wojtowicz had 41 percent of the vote to Cavanagh's 25 percent.