11.  And, finally, Florida will be the first state with a big Senate race to report.

12.  As a result, Wyoming this academic year became the first state to wire all its public schools.

13.  Arizona is not the first state to have an intergovernmental war erupt over tobacco.

14.  As of June, Massachusetts will be the first state to set limits on carbon dioxide emissions, which are believed to hasten global climate change.

15.  Besides New Hampshire, the first presidential primary state, the ad will be seen in the Washington area.

16.  Both Farmer and Wells said that they believed New Jersey will be the first state in the nation to use the new photo lineup technique.

17.  - Montana was the first state to elect a woman to Congress, shortly after the turn of the century.

18.  A measure in the Legislature that would make California the first state to regulate carbon dioxide and other tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases is losing support.

19.  A notebookish roundup of a day on the trail in the first caucus state as candidates converge in large numbers.

20.  Ahmad Shah Durrani, founder of the first Afghan state, was a Pashtun.