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• “White also said a government bursary for so-called "first-generation" learners - the first in their family ever to attend college or university - was claimed by about 2,200 students, which he said is only about 2.3 per cent of the estimated 91,000 first-generation students on student aid who should have been eligible for the money.”

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• “In terms of the rich people here in China, the thing that's unusual is that 30 years ago there really weren't people of great wealth so what you have is first-generation fortunes," Gates said.”

  The Huffington Post: Gates, Buffett Talk To China Wealthy About Charity

• “That compares with a $320 bill of materials for the first-generation 32-gigabyte iPad, based on April 2010 pricing.”

  The Wall Street Journal: IPad 2's Bill of Materials Close to First IPad

• “Does this mean that dominant groups in the United States see first-generation Hispanics as hypersexual, overly-superstitious rubes with heavy accents?”

  The Huffington Post: Stephen Palacios: Hispanic Images In The Media: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Bratt

• “Parisa Kharazi is a first-generation American woman of Iranian descent who grew up in New Jersey.”

  The Huffington Post: Ross Szabo: What Does an American Look Like? Racial Diversity in the Peace Corps

• “The Pew study, "Muslim Americans: No Sign of Growth in Alienation or Extremism," reports that 63 percent of Muslim Americans are first-generation immigrants to the U.S., with 45 percent having arrived since 1990.”

  The Huffington Post: Nancy Fuchs Kreimer: The Good News About Islamophobia

• “Both Motorola's hardware and Google's new software are impressive and, after testing it for about a week, I believe the Xoom beats the first-generation iPad in certain respects, though it lags in others.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Motorola's Xoom Starts Tablet Wars With iPad

• “Andy interviews that his family are first-generation immigrants from Laos, and that growing up he had to work the land and feed the fish.”

  The Huffington Post: Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale: Part One Recap

• “For example, the Ohio State University's admissions criteria consider not only race, but also cultural, economic and geographic diversity as well as first-generation college student status.”

  The Huffington Post: Andrew Grant-Thomas, Ph.D.: Are Ohio's Black and Latino Students Buoyed by a System of Preferences? Not Hardly

• “Moving away from these criteria to further elevate test scores would limit access for many low-income white students, including first-generation college students from underrepresented areas like Ohio's Appalachian counties.”

  The Huffington Post: Andrew Grant-Thomas, Ph.D.: Are Ohio's Black and Latino Students Buoyed by a System of Preferences? Not Hardly

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