Battleground Starter

Time to get real about marijuana
Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.; 10/10/2009; 610 words; ...prices. There is a better way to regulate marijuana. For starters, people who really need and want marijuana for their medical...trafficking, which has turned Mexican border cities into horrific battlegrounds as drug cartels fight each other and the police, many of...

Andrews joins the Jones camp in race to take over as First Minister.
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 9/11/2009; 878 words; ...the chance of victory by persuading ourselves we cannot win. We can win, especially in battleground seats like Blaenau Gwent." CAPTION(S): STARTER'S ORDERS: The bets are on for Huw Lewis and Carwyn Jones

For Starters, Decipher Lunch; Transition Time in Montgomery Schools
The Washington Post; 9/1/2009; 1214 words; ...One boy sat at a table claimed by upperclassmen, who settled in around him. Ninth grade is one of the crucial education battlegrounds: Of the nearly 30 percent of U.S. high school students who fail to graduate, a third do not progress past ninth grade...

Lions survive brutal battle with unbeaten record intact; RUGBY UNION SOUTHERN KINGS... 8 BRITISH & IRISH LIONS... 20.
The Birmingham Post (England); 6/17/2009; 639 words; ...stages, with Port Elizabeth living up to its reputation as a battleground for visiting overseas teams. The city staged a violence...unscathed in terms of Test team selection. A dozen probable Test starters had already flown north up the coast, watching from a safe...

Lions are given a bruising rehearsal; RUGBY UNION: McGeechan pleased as tourists maintain their 100 per cent record.
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 6/17/2009; 957 words; ...stages, with Port Elizabeth living up to its reputation as a battleground for visiting overseas teams. The city staged a violence...unscathed in terms of Test team selection. A dozen probable Test starters had already flown north up the coast, watching from a safe...