America is the first society in the world that has tried to organise itself on the assumption that human beings do not need to sleep.
He trained a generation of leading human embryologists, founded the field's first professional society and began a series of journals to spread its research findings.
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First, Palestinian society is already one of the most militarized societies in the world.
Now is the time to put the interests of the whole society first.
But in truth, speech codes university policies prohibiting expression protected by the First Amendment in society at large are nearly as popular as ever.
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The society first looked into aspirin as a cancer-prevention measure in 2009, and has reconvened as evidence of potential benefits has grown.
During her brief green period in the late 1980s she shocked first the Royal Society then the UN with speeches crackling with environmental passion.
What I think will happen is that we will have a de facto cashless society first, where a majority of transactions will be done without cash, both in numbers of transactions and in the quantity of money involved.
This is our first task as a society, keeping our children safe.
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Bernard Holden was one of the leading figures in the creation of the Bluebell Railway and chaired the first meeting of the society in 1958.
He traces it back to the 1980s, or the "me generation" as he calls it, when "for the first time in British society, people thought money was intrinsically good".
"This is our first task as a society -- keeping our children safe, " the president said, adding that saving even one life would make the changes he seeks worth the effort.
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Ever since we (as a society) first plugged computers called "gaming consoles" into our televisions, we've been following an archaic process of swapping remotes and pushing buttons and all sorts of needless busywork.
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The impact of doping in sport transcends the spheres of sport, because it can affect young people's expectations with respect to the set of values that underpin our society, first and foremost values of equity and justice.
First, we as a society are not coming together to support institutions of higher learning.
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First things first, the American Cancer Society's focus on tobacco is very strong.
Mr Holden, a former manager with Southern and British Railways, chaired the society's first meeting after British Rail closed the Lewes-East Grinstead route in 1958.
With the use of ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography, they've unearthed evidence to suggest that a spot on the southern coast of Spain, just north of Cadiz, played host to what may have been human society's first metropolis.
The promise has changed 11 times to reflect changes in society since guiding was first founded in 1909.
Kamlesh Bahl was expected to become the first Asian and first woman president of the Law Society in July.
The research, done on behalf of the Parkinson's Disease Society, was the first ever in the UK and Europe to look seriously at physiotherapy as a means of treating Parkinson's Disease.
Yet as a society advances and that first stage of industrialisation is removed to make way for second and third waves then steel demand may go one way but iron ore demand another.
For those undocumented youth who think that America owes them a fulfillment of their dreams, or who -- like the reader -- demand to be fully "incorporated into this society, " that first column was for you.
Pitt was a founding trustee and the first president of the SEC Historical Society and participated in a wide variety of bar and continuing legal education activities to further public consideration of significant corporate and securities law issues.
The day that I decided I wanted to live, I went back to school, made straight As, graduated at the top of my class, on the National Honor Society, became the first person in my family on either side, to graduate from college.
The 1985 Israfel Society Conference, the first meeting of Edgar Allan Poe specialists to be held outside the northern hemisphere, was to take place in Buenos Aires, less than a thousand kilometres from my apartment in Bonfim, and was, therefore, within the budget of a poor translator and teacher of English (which, as you know, is what I am).
Furthermore, lest anyone simplistically respond that Africans just emerging from conflicts need peacebuilding, not the accoutrements of armed security, it is worth recalling that acclaimed development economist Paul Collier and his colleague Anke Hoeffler found in their study on Military Expenditure in Post-Conflict Society that in the first five years after a peace agreement a given country's estimated risk of renewed conflict is about 44 percent.
First, the Party, government and society have never paid as much attention as today to the cultural industry.
First, the evolution from an agricultural society to a knowledge society brings out a grim tendency to judge young people harshly.
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In her first interview last year the princess told society magazine Tatler she did not see herself as a "stereotypical princess".
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