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I became an industrial engineer, engineer in product development, and I focused on appropriate detection technologies, actually the first appropriate technologies for developing countries.
And there's about 6,000 people last year that walked on a landmine, but worldwide last year, almost 1.9 million died from tuberculosis as a first cause of infection.
But let's stick first to tuberculosis.
Here is a first prototype of our camera rat, which is a rat with a rat backpack with a camera that can go under rubble to detect for victims after earthquake and so on.
So you'll see the first picture, then a mask, then the second picture, then a mask.
And in that first year, I tried to figure out how could I make this pain go away.
So basically, I got ... I got injured at the right time, in which the first two NFL players were studied for this disease.
The first was Mike Webster, 50 years old, already had dementia.
But shockingly, even when the first two cases came in positive, there was never a national news story about this, what's going on in football with these cases of CTE.
So I ended up calling the doctor who did the first two studies, and I said, "Hey, I think you should study Andre Waters."
The problem is, the first two cases died in the county in which I work, and I could study them as part of my job.
First time, nobody answered.
At this point, we were the first center in the world focused on CTE.
One of my first pledges was a former Harvard hockey player, Noah Welch, who was in the NHL at the time.
And a recent study we published, that of the first 111 NFL players we looked at 110 were positive for this disease.
Of the first 53 college football players we looked at, 48 had this disease.
It stands out because this was the first time in American history that American citizens had to flee the land of their birth just to be recognized as the citizens that they had always been.
This Great Migration was the first time in American history that the lowest caste people signaled that they had options and were willing to take them.
Secondly, this Great Migration was the first time in American history that the lowest caste people actually had a chance to choose for themselves what they would do with their God-given talents and where they would pursue them.
He migrated at the age of 16 from North Carolina to Philadelphia, where, upon arrival in Philadelphia, he got his first alto sax.
I remember my teacher, when I first started, my very first lesson, I was all prepared with sticks, ready to go.
But in spite of that, I went through the first 10 or 15 years of my career mostly in denial of being a woman.
You only tell your dearest, closest friend, sworn to secrecy for life, the first time you had sex.
There ain't no first time.
This was the first time a prime minister of India was given a parking ticket.
That's the first time in India, and I can tell you, that's the last time you're hearing about it.
The first day when I went in, I didn't know how to look at them.
Women, for the first time this year, became the majority of the American workforce.
Certainly this is not the first time that we've had great progress with women.
But the point about the high bridge is that you have to have the confidence to know that you deserve to be on that bridge, that you have all the skills and experience you need in order to walk across the high bridge, but you just have to make the decision to take the first step and do it.
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