1.   An environmental activist from Texas has become the first fatality in the long struggle between environmentalists and the timber industry over logging old growth redwoods in Northern California.

2.   Fun and games gave way to tragedy Sunday as CART driver Greg Moore became the first fatality in the three-year history of the California Speedway.

3.   He had an allergic reaction to the stings and died, becoming the first Africanized bee fatality in the United States.

4.   It was the first fatality in the steadily escalating demonstrations at high-level international meetings over two years.

5.   Stringer is believed to be the first fatality from heat in the history of the NFL.

6.   The agency got involved last spring when its laboratory, along with ones in Europe, confirmed the diagnosis of the first fatality from the virus.

7.   The deaths of the Pakistani soldiers were the first combat fatalities the country has suffered since it began sending troops to the border months ago.

8.   The news of the first American fatality in Bosnia left many soldiers in Tuzla concerned.

9.   The rapid response operation suffered its first fatalities in its eight years in the helicopter crash on Sunday in a remote corner of Mongolia that killed four team members.

10.   They were the first fatalities in what has been a generally peaceful operation.