After another two weeks, the first young emerge, four to eight small daughters that begin to play the role of worker bees, collecting pollen and nectar in the field and caring for the new young generation while the queen retires to a life of egg laying.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

His first generation of students included Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict, who each produced richly detailed studies of indigenous North American cultures.

A broad public discussion of environmental problems began in the mid-1980s, when the first " green " groups formed in opposition to Yerevan's intense industrial air pollution and to nuclear power generation in the wake of the 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl '.

In rural tidewater Virginia and eastern New England, ' r ' is non-rhotic in accented ( such as " bird ", " work ", " first ", " birthday ") as well as unaccented syllables, although this is declining among the younger generation of speakers.

This very first generation of children created a new dialect that was to become the language of the nation.

However, poor marketing and failure to repeat the technological advances of the first systems meant that the Amiga quickly lost its market share to competing platforms, such as the fourth generation game consoles, Apple Macintosh and IBM PC compatibles.

What they and many others of that generation in the Nordic countries had in common was that they started off from a classical education and were first designing in the so-called Nordic Classicism style – a style that had been a reaction to the previous dominant style of National Romanticism – before moving, in the late 1920s, towards Modernism.

The first generation of television chefs such as Robert Carrier and Julia Child tended to concentrate on cooking based primarily on European, especially French and Italian, cuisines.

The first generation of cartridges were flat, and were designed to be stackable for ease of storage.

A first generation of antipsychotics, known as typical antipsychotics, was discovered in the 1950s.

Most of the drugs in the second generation, known as atypical antipsychotics, have been developed more recently, although the first atypical antipsychotic, clozapine, was discovered in the 1950s and introduced clinically in the 1970s.

In addition, a 2010 Cochrane Collaboration review of trials of Risperidone, one of the biggest selling antipsychotics and the first of the new generation to become available in generic form, found only marginal benefit compared with placebo and that, despite its widespread use, evidence remains limited, poorly reported and probably biased in favor of risperidone due to pharmaceutical company funding of trials.

He was part of the generation that first grappled with the writings of Aristotle.

Internally, the Athlon is a fully seventh generation x86 processor, the first of its kind.

He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation.

The cell theory, first developed in 1839 by Matthias Jakob Schleiden and Theodor Schwann, states that all organisms are composed of one or more cells, that all cells come from preexisting cells, that vital functions of an organism occur within cells, and that all cells contain the hereditary information necessary for regulating cell functions and for transmitting information to the next generation of cells.

This view has the advantage of anchoring Numbers to the Pentateuch as a whole, but an alternative is to see it as structured around the two generations of those condemned to die in the wilderness and the new generation who will enter Canaan, making a theological distinction between the disobedience of the first generation and the obedience of the second.

" The relative status of various humans, some of whom had modern advanced technologies that included engines and telegraphs, while others lacked anything but face-to-face communication techniques and still lived a Paleolithic lifestyle, was of interest to the first generation of cultural anthropologists.

By the middle of the decade, some of the 1950s generation of American comedians, such as Jerry Lewis, went into decline, while Peter Sellers found success with international audiences in his first American film The Pink Panther.

Emperor Xuanzong of Tang first bestowed the title of " Duke Wenxuan " on Kong Suizhi of the 35th generation.

In 1055, Emperor Renzong of Song first bestowed the title of " Duke Yansheng " on Kong Zongyuan of the 46th generation.

This was in contradiction to Ernst Haeckel's theory that the complete phylogeny of a species would be repeated during embryonic development, including generation of the first nucleated cell from a " Monerula ", a structureless mass of primordial mucus (" Urschleim ").

Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).

Perhaps the first software-defined radio transceiver was designed and implemented by Peter Hoeher and Helmuth Lang at the German Aerospace Research Establishment ( DLR, formerly DFVLR ) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, in 1988.

On 2 December 2005, London City Airport DLR station opened on a branch of the Docklands Light Railway, providing rail access to the airport for the first time, and providing fast rail links to Canary Wharf and the City of London.

DLR and Jubilee Line services are not affected at the first three of those stations.

Although the DLR is a recent addition, the National Rail line through Greenwich station is one of London's oldest-the London and Greenwich Railway is reputed to be the world's first suburban railway.

It is the first station south of the River Thames and, as the DLR passes underneath the river in a tunnel, is below ground.

It opened on 31 August 1987 as part of the first tranche of DLR stations.

It was the first to carry eight crew members, ( five Americans, two Germans and Ockels ); the largest to fly in space ; and was also the first in which payload activities were controlled from outside the United States: from the DLR control center in Germany.

The village is home to a major site of the German Aerospace Center ( Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt, DLR ) and became hence known to a wide audience when, in 1983 the first West-German astronaut, the physicist Ulf Merbold flew to space on board a Space Shuttle in the context of the Spacelab missions.

* In June 2008 the German Aerospace Center ( DLR ) presented the first robotic system for minimally invasive surgery with force-feedback in 7 dof in the tip of the instrument, distal of the 2-dof handwrist ( MiroSurge ).

Arguably, Lowery's first truly " big break " came when he was selected by former Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth to play lead guitar on the critically well-received 1998 release DLR Band.

Finland was the first state in the EMU ( European Monetary Union ) to implement these changes.

The timescale for conversion from the tolar to the euro operated differently from the first wave of European Monetary Union ( EMU ).

first wave of EMU, this period was only a day ( the conversion rates were fixed on 31 December 1998 and euro non-cash payments were possible from 1 January 1999 ).

Also unlike the first wave of EMU which had a three year transition period ( 1999 – 2001 ), there was no transition period when non-cash payments could be made in both tolar and euro.

However, as with the first wave of EMU, cash payments with the tolar could continue until 14 January 2007, but change had to be given in euro.

The first prototype double deck motor car was built by Comeng in 1969 and production versions entered service in 1972 ; these were the first fully double deck EMU passenger trains in the world.

The 381 series EMU, the first Japanese tilting train to enter regular service

This was the first Space Shuttle mission during which a spacewalk was conducted, and the first in which the Extravehicular Mobility Unit ( EMU ) was used.

This was the first Pendolino EMU to enter regular service.

Even before the first Pendolino EMU was built in Italy, in 1972, Fiat and RENFE signed an agreement for cooperation in tilting-train development.

The first fruit of the cooperation was the equipment of a RENFE Class 432 EMU with the active tilting suspension in September 1972.

Refurbished Class 317 / 6 EMU in the first WAGN livery at Liverpool Street.

He offered a striking cricket metaphor for British negotiations on EMU in Europe: " It is rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease, only for them to find, as the first balls are being bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain ".

Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices HICP published for the first time-designed for Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union ( EMU ) convergence criteria.

1998 The eleven countries in at the start of EMU ( EUR-11 ) announced, and Eurostat issues the first indicators specific to the EMU area.

* The first Electric Multiple Unit ( EMU ) Service on S. C. Railway was inaugurated between Secunderabad and Lingampalli in August 2003.

Upon receiving the contract to build the EMU in 1974, Hamilton United and ILC Dover delivered the first EMU units to NASA in 1982.

The first EVA of the new EMU finally occurred on STS-6 when Story Musgrave and Donald Peterson went out in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Challenger and tested techniques to lower the launch cradle of a solid-fuel upper stage used to boost a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite ( TDRS-A ) into a geo-stationary orbit.

Other EVAs followed on the Shuttle, notably those on STS-41-B ( the first Manned Maneuvering Unit flight ), STS-41-C ( the Solar Max repair mission ), and STS-51-A ( where two stranded satellites were retrieved and returned to Earth ), but the majority of EMU uses occurred on the servicing missions of the Hubble Space Telescope.

In 1996, the first refurbished Metro Cammell EMU was put into service, and trains now allow passengers to traverse from one end to another ( except for the first class car ), when trains once ran on four three-car EMUs.