Pitcher Darryl Kile ( who died in 2002 ) signed as a free agent in the offseason, struggled in Colorado, going 13 – 17 with a 5. 20 ERA — a far cry from his numbers the prior year as a member of the Houston Astros, when he went 19 – 7 with a 2. 57 ERA.

However, as attendance began to dwindle — the Rockies fell to just sixth in the National League in attendance in 2002, and ninth in 2003 and 2004 — the club could no longer afford to build through big-name free agents.

2002 — Prime Minister Terepai Maoate is ousted from government following second vote of no-confidence in his leadership.

But follow-up studies have ( depending on who was summarizing the results ) failed to replicate the phenomenon or produced mixed results ( Bem & others, 2001 ; Milton & Wiseman, 2002 ; Storm, 2000, 2003 ). One skeptic, magician James Randi, has a longstanding offer — now U. S. $ 1 million —“ to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions ” ( Randi, 1999 ).

# When Body Language Goes Bad — November 12, 2001 to August 18, 2002

# Words You Don't Want to Hear During Your Annual Performance Review — August 19, 2002 to May 25, 2003

* All Dressed Down And Nowhere To Go — 2002 ; ISBN 0-7407-2931-4

In May 2002, then-Prime Minister, Tony Blair unveiled a statue of Dewar at the top of Glasgow's Buchanan Street — and in keeping with his famous unkempt appearance, it showed Dewar wearing a slightly crushed jacket.

The man behind the Frisbee's phenomenal success, however, was Edward " Steady Ed " Headrick ( Pasadena, Cal., June 28, 1924 — La Selva Beach, Cal., August 12, 2002 ), hired in 1964 as Wham-O's new general manager and vice president in charge of marketing.

In 2002 the tunnel between Streymoy and Vágar — the latter is the airport island — was finished, and in 2006 the Norðoyatunnilin between Eysturoy and Borðoy was finished.

* Charles Johnson ( 1994 – 1998, 2001 – 2002 ) — A four-time Gold Glove Award winner, in 1997 Johnson set a Major League single-season record for catchers by playing in 123 games without committing a single error.

Sudanese surgeon Nahid Toubia — president of RAINBO ( Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women ) — told the BBC in 2002 that campaigning against FGM involved trying to change women's consciousness: " By allowing your genitals to be removed is perceived that you are heightened to another level of pure motherhood — a motherhood not tainted by sexuality and that is why the woman gives it away to become the matron, respected by everyone.

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In 2002, the band produced an album — Vapor Trails — that was completely free of keyboards and synthesizers, featuring only voice, guitar, bass guitar, drums and percussion.

However, GDP per capita — amounting to $ 425 in FY 2002 — will continue to decline as population growth is estimated at 1. 3 % p. a.

Exterior changes brought an overall smoother body and a " twin-kidney " grille — a Commodore styling trait which remained until the 2002 VY model.

To increase profitability, Holden looked to the South Korean Daewoo brand for replacements after acquiring a 44. 6 percent stake — worth US $ 251 million — in the company in 2002 as a representative of GM.

* 2002 — George " Pinky " Nelson

* 2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.

( also written ( 89959 ) 2002 NT7 ) is a near-Earth object ( NEO ) with a diameter of 1. 2 miles ( 2 kilometers ) that became the first object observed by NASA's NEO program to be assigned a positive rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale, for a potential impact on February 1, 2019.

Rodeo – Chediski fires on July 1, 2002, as seen from NASA's ER-2 aircraft

* Humidity Sounder for Brazil MW radiometer instrument on NASA's Earth Observing System satellite Aqua launched in May 2002

The scene was acquired by NASA's Terra satellite, on October 23, 2002.

NASA's " Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer " lifting off near Lynn Lake, August 7, 2002

López-Alegría's first space mission was STS-73 in 1995 ; for several years afterwards he led NASA's International Space Station ( ISS ) Crew Operations office before returning to space aboard STS-92 in 2000 and STS-113 in 2002.

It was even fitted into NASA's Space Shuttle orbiters Atlantis, Columbia, Discovery, and Endeavour, and the current Russian Soyuz TMA model spacecraft that was launched in 2002.

These measurements came from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment ( GRACE ) satellite, launched in 2002, as reported by BBC News in August 2006 .< ref > Greenland melt < nowiki >' speeding up '</ nowiki >, BBC News, 11 August 2006

The 400 included a new glass cockpit that was developed on NASA's own 300 under the AGATE program, and was later put into the production model 300 to produce the Columbia 350 in 2002.

True-colour image showing Auckland ( left ), the Hauraki Gulf ( centre ) and the Coromandel Peninsula ( right ), by NASA's Terra satellite, 2002 .</ small >

The image was acquired by NASA's Terra satellite, on October 23, 2002.

The scene was acquired by NASA's Terra satellite, on October 23, 2002. The Coromandel Range is a ridge of rugged hills running the length of the Coromandel Peninsula in the North Island of New Zealand.

A true-colour image acquired by NASA's Terra satellite, on October 23, 2002.

A " CCS-augmented X-machine " ( CCSXM ) model was later developed by Simons and Stannett in 2002 to support complete behavioural testing of object-oriented systems, in the presence of asynchronous communication This is expected to bear some similarity with NASA's recent proposal ; but no definitive comparison of the two models has as yet been conducted.

NDDL ( New Domain Definition Language ) is NASA's response to PDDL from around 2002.

* 2002 – In Washington, D. C., the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.

* Chandra Levy case timeline ( 2000 – 2002 ) at ABC News

Quark stars and strange stars are entirely hypothetical, but observations released by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory on April 10, 2002 detected two candidates, designated RX J1856. 5-3754 and 3C58, which had previously been thought to be neutron stars.

Mishra has acted as " Ekku " Kroor Singh in the Teleserial Chandrakanta and also in the film The Legend of Bhagat Singh ( 2002 ) as Chandra Shekhar Azad alongside Ajay Devgn who performed the role of Bhagat Singh.

Yashwant Sinha ( born November 6, 1937, Patna ) is an Indian politician and a former finance minister of India ( 1990 – 1991 under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar and March 1998 – July 2002 under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee ) and foreign minister ( July 2002 – May 2004 ) in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet.

It was originally thought to be about 150 – 200 light-years away, but further observations using the Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2002 appear to show that its distance is greater — about 400 light-years.

Based on discoveries in this new field of X-ray astronomy, starting with Scorpius X-1, Riccardo Giacconi received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002.

The production of X-rays by a bolt of lightning was theoretically predicted as early as 1925 but no evidence was found until 2001 / 2002, when researchers at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology detected X-ray emissions from an induced lightning strike along a wire trailed behind a rocket shot into a storm cloud.

Giacconi was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002 " for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources ".

The directorial positions at MPE attained their current status with the appointment of Professor Günther Hasinger ( X-ray astronomy ) and Professor Ralf Bender ( optical and interpretative astronomy ) in the years 2001 and 2002.

* Ultraluminous X-ray Source 1E 0953. 8 + 6918 ( M81 X-9 ): An Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Candidate and its Environs, 2002, MNRAS 332, 764