According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

* Markus Weimer, The Peace Dividend: Analysis of a Decade of Angolan Indicators, 2002 – 2012

** Atlas V ( 2002 – Present )

The Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic and Korean-Japanese-Ainu groupings were also posited by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ) who, however, treated them as independent members of a larger family, which he termed Eurasiatic.

This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

* Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ).

* " The Nobels in Baku " in Azerbaijan International, Vol 10. 2 ( Summer 2002 ), 56 – 59.

* 1969 – Bison Dele, American basketball player ( d. 2002 )

* 2002 – A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.

* 1910 – Levi Celerio, Filipino composer and lyricist ( d. 2002 )

* 2002 – Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón

* 1926 – Pat Coombs, English actress ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist ( d. 2002 )

* 1947 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( d. 2002 )

* 1952 – Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer ) ( d. 2002 )

* 1952 – Herb Ritts, American photographer ( d. 2002 )

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

* 2002 – Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper ( b. 1905 )

* 2002 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( b. 1947 )

" History and Theory 41, Theme Issue 41 ( December 2002 ), 90 – 103

* 1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English director ( d. 2002 )

* 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist ( d. 2002 )

* 1924 – Ruth Kobart, American actress and singer ( d. 2002 )

* 1927 – Ruth Fertel, American entrepreneur ( d. 2002 )

* 1916 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman and inventor of the Barbie doll ( d. 2002 )

* Madison Powers and Ruth Faden ,“ Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: An Ethical Analysis of When and How They Matter ,” in Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, 2002: 722 – 38

* Kassinger, Ruth, 2002, Build a Better Mousetrap: Make Classic Inventions, Discover Your Problem-Solving Genius, and Take the Inventor's Challenge, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 0-471-39538-2

Ruth Dreifuss held the Federal Department of Home Affairs until her resignation on 31 December 2002.

* Ruth Dreifuss ( SP / PS ), served from 1993 to 2002, was the first woman to become President of the Confederation in 1999.

* Ruth Wynn Woodward Professor in Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University ( 2000 – 2002 )

Babe Ruth set the mark on October 6, 1926, while with the Yankees ; it was matched most recently by Jeff Kent of the San Francisco Giants on October 24, 2002.

The foundation was formed by his parents Ruth and Judea Pearl after musician and Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in 2002.

The trade is now considered one of the most one-sided trades in baseball history ; in 2002 ESPN's readers named it the second-worst trade in sports history, behind only the Red Sox trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees.

In 2002 the play was given a short production at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York, with Twiggy as Elvira, Dana Ivey as Madame Arcati, Patricia Kalember as Ruth, and Daniel Gerroll, who also directed, as Charles.

* 2002 – 2007 Ruth Winters

Noted faculty poets include George Starbuck ( 1983 Lenore Marshall Prize ), Charles Olson, Robert Creeley ( Bollingen Prize 1999 ), John Logan, ( Lenore Marshall Prize 1982 ), Irving Feldman ( MacArthur Foundation Fellow 1992 ), Carl Dennis ( 2000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize ; 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ), Robert Hass ( Poet Laureate of the United States 1995-97, 2007 National Book Award, 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ), Charles Bernstein ( co-founder of the University's notable Poetics Program ), Steve McCaffery, and Susan Howe ( Bollingen Prize 2011 ).

* Beyond the walls: selected poems / Nâzim Hikmet ; translated by Ruth Christie, Richard McKane, Talât Sait Halman ; introduction by Talât Sait Halman, London: Anvil Press Poetry, 2002.

She had previously played the role of Ruth Steiner in 1999 at the Geffen Playhouse in a production co-starring Samantha Mathis, directed by Gilbert Cates, which was later re-produced for PBS Hollywood Presents in 2002.

In 1995-96 the Pointer Sisters returned to their original jazzy incarnation touring nationally in Ain't Misbehavin ': during this tour issues with June Pointer came to the fore as June Pointer missed many performances-understudy Wendy Edmead replaced her on these occasions-and in 2002 Ruth Pointer's daughter Issa Pointer began performing with the Pointer Sisters in June Pointer's stead.

On June 9 2002 June Pointer and Bonnie Pointer performed as a duo on the bill at the San Jose Gay Pride Celebration the pair having been recruited by a promoter who had failed to recruit the official Pointer Sisters trio for the event: the June / Bonnie Pointer duo's appearance at San Jose Pride was promoted as a " Pointer Sisters " gig with pictures of June Pointer performing with Anita Pointer and Ruth Pointer utilized in its promotion, causing Anita Pointer and Ruth Pointer to sue the promoter and other affiliates of the June / Bonnie Pointer duo's San Jose Pride gig ( neither Bonnie Pointer nor June Pointer was named in the suit ).

* Ruth Cracknell, actress ( d. 2002 )

* The original bundlers: Boaz and Ruth, and seventeenth-century English courtship practices-Critical Essay-Journal of Social History, Spring, 2002, by Yochi Fischer-Yinon

In 1931, Lane married Ruth Covell and they remained together for 70 years until her death in 2002.

( M. September 1, 2002 ) The couple have two children: son Tate James Rytky ( B. April 30, 2004 ) and daughter Felicity Ruth Rytky ( B. April 10, 2007 ).

* Towse, Ruth ( 2002 ).