Recent research, based on archaeological and paleontological digs on 70 different islands, has shown that numerous species went extinct as people moved across the Pacific, starting 30, 000 years ago in the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands ( Steadman & Martin 2003 ).

Recent infrastructural developments include the opening of the fast tram route ( Poznański Szybki Tramwaj, popularly Pestka ) in 1997, and Poznań's first motorway connection ( part of the A2 autostrada ) in 2003.

Recent PLAN incidents include the 2001 Hainan Island incident, a major submarine accident in 2003, and naval incidents involving the U. S. MSC-operated ocean surveillance ships and during 2009.

Recent insights on these issues have led to the New Losing Trick Count ( Bridge World, 2003 ).

Recent retrospective surveys include " All About Art ," Louisiana Museum, Humelbaek ( 2003, traveled to the Hayward Gallery, London, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through 2005 ); and " Classic of the New ", Kunsthaus Bregenz ( 2005 ), " Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art " Museo Triennale, Milan ( 2010, traveled to the Museum Ludwig, Cologne ).

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

Recent scandals include the convictions of the mayor, David Delle Donna, and his wife, a member of the town planning board, on federal extortion and mail fraud charges ; a former mayor, Peter LaVilla, who pleaded guilty in 2003 to misappropriating campaign funds and using the money for a private brokerage account ; a councilman who resigned after being accused of receiving illegal advances on his salary ; and a chief financial officer, who pleaded guilty in 2002 to misappropriation of funds.

Recent acquisitions by Hormel Foods include: Century Foods International ( 2003 ) Clougherty Packing ( Farmer John ) ( 2004 ), Lloyd ’ s Barbeque ( 2005 ), Mark-Lynn Foods ( 2005 ), Arriba Foods ( 2005 ), Provena Foods ( 2006 ) and Burke Foods ( 2007 ).

Recent years have been notable for the number of wins by previously obscure golfers, including Paul Lawrie's playoff win after the epic 72nd-hole collapse of Jean van de Velde in 1999, Ben Curtis in 2003 and Todd Hamilton in 2004.

Recent large-scale impact studies include the study edited by Fitzpatrick & Davies ( 2003 ) and the EACEA ( 2009 ) study, both of which were produced for the European Commission.

Recent NESCAC champions include men's ice hockey ( 2011, albeit officially forfeited ), men's tennis ( 2008 ), women's volleyball ( 2011 ) men's cross country ( 2001, 2002 ), women's basketball ( 2001 – 2007, 2009 ), women's ice hockey ( 2002, 2004 ) and women's field hockey ( 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 ); recent NCAA tournament appearances include women's basketball ( Elite Eight, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 ; Final Four, 2004 ), women's field hockey ( Final Four, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 ) men's rugby ( sweet 16, 2001 ), women's ice hockey ( Final Four, 2002, 2003 ; Elite Eight, 2004, 2005 ), men's soccer ( Final Four, 2010 ) and women's lacrosse ( Final Four, 2011.

* Lopez-Corredoira, Martín, 2003, Observational Cosmology: caveats and open questions in the standard model, Recent Research Developments in Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol.

Recent research has cast doubt on the taxonomy of the Pica magpies ( Lee et al., 2003 ).

Recent athletic honors include three consecutive NCAA Field Hockey national championships in 2002, 2003, and 2004 under Head Coach Jennifer Averill.

* Zink, Robert M. & Weckstein, Jason D. ( 2003 ): Recent evolutionary history of the Fox Sparrows ( Genus: Passerella ).

Recent productions have included Harbison's The Great Gatsby ( 2000 – 2001 ), Weill's Street Scene ( 2001 – 2002 ), and Floyd's Susannah and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd ( 2002 – 2003 ), and John Adams ' Doctor Atomic directed by Peter Sellars.

Recent examples include criticism of the World Health Organization, rejecting WHO's claims of the efficacy of homoeopathy as a therapeutic option, disapproval during the time Reed Exhibitions ( a division of Reed Elsevier ) hosted arms industry fairs, and a call in 2003 for tobacco to be made illegal.

Recent recipients include Andrew Orr-Ewing, ( 1999 ), Jonathan A Jones, ( 2000 ), Helen Fielding ( 2001 ), Jonathan Essex ( 2002 ), Daren Caruana ( 2003 ), Jonathan Reid ( 2004 ), Julie Macpherson ( 2005 ), Fred Manby ( 2006 ) and Alessandro Troisi ( 2007 ).

Recent races have been closely fought, with Oxford winning by the shortest ever margin of in 2003 and Cambridge winning in 2004 despite Oxford's claims of a foul.

* Wolf Schäfer, " Learning From Recent History ," Provost ’ s Lecture Series on Global Issues-The People Speak: America Debates its Role in the World, Stony Brook University, October 15, 2003

Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions by Maya Lin ( 2006 ), Lynn Hershman Leeson ( 2005 – 06 ), Doug Aitken ( 2005 ), Axel Lieber ( 2004 – 05 ), and James Turrell ( 2003 ), and group exhibitions such as W. O. W.

Recent projects include Alchemy ( 2003 to current ), a project initiating and facilitating artists ' access to the museum and the University of Manchester.

Recent interpretations of the second part have been provided by Miller ( 1986 ), Meinwald ( 1991 ), Sayre ( 1996 ), Allen ( 1997 ), Turnbull ( 1998 ), Scolnicov ( 2003 ), and Rickless ( 2007 ).

( 2003 ) " Dynamical evolutionary psychology: Individual decision rules and emergent social norms ," Psychological Review 110: 3 – 28.

The latest evolutionary step happened around 2003 where the cores from SH-2 up to SH-4 were getting unified into a superscalar SH-X core which forms a kind of instruction set superset of the previous architectures.

& Olson, Storrs L. ( 2003 ): Pseudopodoces humilis, a misclassified terrestrial tit ( Paridae ) of the Tibetan Plateau: evolutionary consequences of shifting adaptive zones.

' Erasmus Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the origins of the evolutionary worldview in British provincial scientific culture ', Isis 94 ( 2003 ), 1 – 29

( 2003 ) Fisher the evolutionary biologist.

Yet to date, the only evolutionary biologist to speak to the hypothesis at any length is Simon Conway Morris ( 2003 ).

At a Society for Neuroscience meeting in 2003, Allman reported on spindle cells his team found in another brain region, the fronto-insular cortex, a region which appears to have undergone significant evolutionary adaptations in mankindperhaps as recently as 100, 000 years ago.

In recent years he has been investigating the phenomenon of evolutionary convergence, the main thesis of which is put forward in Life ’ s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe ( Cambridge University Press, 2003 ).

Fitness is a term describing the measure of reproductive success, “ In evolutionary theory, fitness is a technical term, meaning the average number of offspring left by an individual relative to the number of offspring left by an average member of the population ” ( Ridley, 2003 ).

He is editor of Perspectives on an Evolving Creation ( Eerdmans, 2003 ), an anthology of essays by prominent evangelical Christian scientists who accept theistic evolution ( also called evolutionary creationism ).

In 2003, Claus Schönig published a critical overview of the history of the Altaic hypothesis up to that time.

2003 also saw the opening of the Gaydon factory, the first purpose-built factory in Aston Martin's history.

The Ravens have experienced great success in their brief history, making the playoffs eight times since 2000, and winning the AFC North three times ( 2003, 2006, and 2011 ).

* Garbini, G., " Myth and history in the bible " ( Sheffield Academic Press, 2003 )

It reopened on September 27, 2003 after a complete rebuild ( the second in the stadium's history ).

It was recorded for years in the local history books that the land on which Columbus sits was donated by General Tipton ; however, a deed purporting to show a sale of the land was acquired in 2003 by Historic Columbus Indiana.

" Elizabeth I and the verdicts of history ," Historical Research, Nov 2003, Vol.

In June 2003, he completed his education at Eton with two A-Levels ( achieving a grade B in art and D in Geography ) having decided to drop history of art after AS level.

* Garbini, G., " Myth and history in the bible " ( Sheffield Academic Press, 2003 )

2003 saw the release of the double live album How the West Was Won, and Led Zeppelin DVD, a six-hour chronological set of live footage that became the best-selling music DVD in history.

Until the release of The Corporation ( 2003 ), made by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, it was the most successful feature documentary in Canadian history, played theatrically in over 300 cities around the world ; won 22 awards ; appeared in more than 50 international film festivals ; and was broadcast in over 30 markets.

Under quarterback Tom Brady and head coach Bill Belichick, the Patriots have also compiled the longest winning streak consisting of regular season and playoff games in NFL history, a 21-game streak from October 2003 – October 2004.

* 2003 – The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes, and destroys 2, 200 homes around San Diego.

Doel ( 2003 ) discusses the use of oral interviews by scholars as primary sources, He lists major oral history projects in the history of science begun after 1950.

Launius ( 2003 ) shows the huge size and complexity of the The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) oral history program since 1959.

On June 13, 2003, pitching against the St. Louis Cardinals in Yankee Stadium, Clemens recorded his 300th career win and 4, 000th career strikeout, the only player in history to record both milestones in the same game.

James McPherson, President of the American Historical Association in 2003, wrote that some would want revisionist history understood as, “ a consciously falsified or distorted interpretation of the past to serve partisan or ideological purposes in the present .” Broadly understood, there are two motivations behind revisionist history: the ability to control ideological influence and to control political influence.

Enterprise was the first to be produced in high-definition ; the first to be broadcast in HDTV, beginning on October 15, 2003, midway into the third season ; the first to be filmed on digital video ( season 4 ); and the first science fiction television or movie production in history to use video footage taken on another planet ( the Sojourner rover approaching the Yogi Rock, taken by the Mars Pathfinder lander and used in the opening credits ).

Also in 2003, Tomlinson accumalated 195 total yards from scrimmage in a late season game against the Packers to raise his season total to 2, 011 and became the first player in team history and the eighth player in NFL history to record consecutive 2, 000-yard seasons.

There is concern over the fact that São Tomé and Príncipe ( STP ) has a history of instability, with two attempted coups, in 1995 and 2003.

* Raoul Schrott's novel Tristan da Cunha oder die Hälfte der Erde ( 2003 ) is almost entirely set on Tristan da Cunha and Gough islands, and chronicles the history of the archipelago.

* On February 15, 2003 anti-war protests break out around the world in opposition to the U. S. Invasion of Iraq, in what the Guinness Book of World Records called the largest anti-war rally in human history.