President Obama has ordered a sharp increase in U.S. Special Operations forces deployed to Uganda and sent U.S. military aircraft there for the first time in the ongoing effort to hunt down warlord Joseph Kony across a broad swath of central Africa.
One of the least noticed but most important accomplishments of the Affordable Care Act was that it set up for the first time ever an ongoing funding source to pay for community prevention efforts.
China blames the United States for militarizing the South China Sea, citing President Obama's strategic rebalance to Asia, a recent deal to post U.S. conventional forces on five military bases in the Philippines for the first time in decades, and ongoing military exercises between the two countries.
DESIGN: A cross-sectional study of brain volume was conducted at the first time point in an ongoing longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study of brain development in autism.
Their identities, and details of their deaths, can be viewed for the first time on The Counted, an ongoing project to record all police-involved fatalities in the US during 2015.
"In 'Exile on Wall Street,' star banking analyst Mike Mayo reveals for the first time the details of his ongoing battle with Wall Street firms to come clean and proves that all the factors leading to the financial crisis (dodgy accounting, the separation of risk from reward, outsized executive pay) are still happening," writes Wiley of the book on its Web site.
Free drug tests were offered for the first time as part of an ongoing pilot study to help inform people about what's really in their substances.
This study quantifies, for the first time, the amount of currently ongoing research into pharmacokinetic profiles of medicines in children.
For the first time, this study demonstrated the ongoing acquisition of genetic rearrangements and the subsequent switch from favorable NB to high-risk disease, identifying an association between genetic rearrangement, the switch to high-risk disease, and poor clinical outcomes.
One of the things that make Varnedoe so effective on the lecture platform is that his fluency never seems rehearsed; his thoughts come across with the headlong intensity and conviction of something voiced for the first time… Tells about MOMA's ongoing expansion… Describes how a bout with cancer led to his resigning from MOMA after accepting a position at Princeton's Institue for Advanced Study….
