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 )

Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars ( GOMOS ), is an instrument on board the European satellite Envisat launched 1 March 2002.

In September 2002, Secretary of State Colin Powell made a brief but historic visit to Gabon to highlight environmental protection and conservation in the Central Africa region.

Other intellectuals in the environmental movement ( like Edward Goldsmith ) have used Gaia in the completely opposite way ; to stake a claim about how Gaia's focus on natural balance and resistance and resilience, should be emulated to design a conservative political system ( as explored in Alan Marshall's 2002 book ' The Unity of Nature ', ( Imperial College Press: London ).

* 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons ( 76, 000 m³ ) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

Since leaving the Mayor ’ s Office in 2002, Dean has been involved in several community and environmental organizations, serving on the boards of:

According to a meta-analysis published in 2002, approximately 40 % of variation between individuals is explained by differences in genes, and 60 % by differences in environment ( mainly non-shared environmental influences rather than those that would be shared by being raised together ).

The Local Government Act 2002 requires regional councils to promote sustainable developmentthe social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of their communities.

A two-tier structure constituted under the Local Government Act 2002 gives the South Island seven regional councils for the administration of regional environmental and transport matters and 25 territorial authorities that administer roads, sewerage, building consents, and other local matters.

The US bases closed on 1 September of that year, but unresolved issues-primarily related to environmental factors-delayed the formal return of the base lands to the Government of Bermuda, which finally occurred in 2002.

In 2002, the Washington Post carried a front page report on Monsanto's legacy of environmental damage in Anniston, Alabama, related to its legal production of PCBs.

By October, 2002, the ADHS in conjunction with the Arizona Cancer Registry, determined that, " No common environmental exposure from drinking water, ambient air or waste sites were identified that might have placed residents of the Sierra Vista area at greater risk of developing leukemia.

In September 2002, the Federal Highway Administration approved an environmental assessment document.

In 2002, Calgon Carbon Corporation planned to construct a carbon reactivation plant in the airpark, though those plans have been delayed due to environmental concerns.

He left Midnight Oil in 2002 to concentrate on his environmental and social activism, effectively spelling the end for the group.

In April 2002, the two managers of the company, Rudi Bakker and Willie Pater, were sentenced to fifteen months ' imprisonment for violation of environmental and safety regulations and dealing in illegal fireworks.

Mismanagement caused serious environmental pollution and the hotel had to be dismantled in 2002.

* In 2002, two US environmental activists involved in tree-sitting protests died in separate accidents.

Critics argue that ecological modernization will fail to protect the environment and does nothing to alter the impulses within the capitalist economic mode of production ( see capitalism ) that inevitably lead to environmental degradation ( Foster, 2002 ).

UCC followed the trends in environmentalism when the Board of Governors unanimously voted in 2002 to establish the Green School initiative, wherein environmental education would become " one of the four hallmarks of a UCC education.

His work as a filmmaker has been closely linked to his activities as a political campaigner on the environmental and political issues raised by the 2002 Prestige oil spill, a marine environmental disaster on a scale exceeding the Exxon Valdez incident.

::*" Martian Autumn " ( 2002 )-Too much environmental stress and life on Earth might undergo an evolutionary " reboot ", like what happened on Mars.

In 2002, the Lachine Canal was reopened as a pleasure boating area, despite environmental concerns about heavy industrial contamination of its bottom, and the banks of the canal were redeveloped.

Since 2002 the company has published yearly reports on the environmental and social impact it has made.

Work by Craig Humphrey and Frederick Buttel ( 2002 ) traces the linkages between Darwin's work on natural selection, human ecological sociology, and environmental sociology.