Ned Friedman describes the Arnold Arboretum's ginkgo project as part of the first-ever effort to define the entire community of microbes — the "microbiome" — of a tree.
An environmental political action group, the New York League of Conservation Voters, has announced that it was planning a first-ever effort to recruit environmental candidates for East End town offices.
They avoid eye contact and address one another only through their U.N. mediator to avoid replicating the bitterness of the battlefield in this first-ever effort to negotiate an end to Syria's war.
But rather than pitting the bottom two against one another in a final effort to stay, Ru demanded a four-way lip-synch challenge, which was Violet's first-ever effort; Pearl, again, displayed her trademark "Pearl smash" moves; Ginger was sweet; and Kennedy found her normal energetic dancing hampered by her heavy, form-fitting gown.
In 2007, in the first-ever effort to use gene therapy to treat people with blindness, three separate teams in the United States and the United Kingdom launched clinical trials for the RPE65 type of LCA.
A first-ever effort to gauge the ecological status of all 11 species of marine mammals living in the Arctic reveals a mixed picture and a lot of missing information.
"The U.S. government's first-ever effort to use trade sanctions to personally aggravate a foreign president expressly targets items believed to be favored by Kim Jong Il or presented by him as gifts to the roughly 600 loyalist families who run the communist government,".
In a first-ever effort, we have paid special attention to the fact that that such pollution is not an equal opportunity affair: minorities and the poor generally live on the "wrong side of the environmental tracks".
At least Iain Duncan Smith is making the first ever serious effort at reform – crippled by computer failure by another sub-contractor beneficiary.
