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.

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

The European Commission, in its 2002 country report, recognised Bulgaria as a functioning market economy, acknowledging the progress made by Prime Minister Ivan Kostov's government toward market-oriented reforms.

* In 2002, Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Yvon Neptune was appointed Prime Minister on March 4, 2002, but following the overthrow of the government in February 2004, he was replaced by an interim Prime Minister, Gérard Latortue.

The Socialists re-elected Ilir Meta as Prime Minister in August 2001, a post which he held till February 2002, when he resigned due to party infighting.

Pandeli Majko was re-elected Prime Minister in February 2002.

* 1948 – Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand entertainer ( d. 2002 )

Enforcement of intellectual property rights is governed by two Prime Minister's Decrees dating from 1995 and 2002.

On 13 December 2002, at the summit in Copenhagen ( Denmark ), Prime Minister Leszek Miller completed the negotiations with the European Union.

A Friedman Prize was given to the late British economist Peter Bauer during 2002, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto during 2004, Mart Laar, former Estonian Prime Minister during 2006 and a young Venezuelan student Yon Goicoechea during 2008.

In the 2002 Parliamentary Elections, Musharraf transferred executive powers to newly elected Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali, who was succeeded in the 2004 by Shaukat Aziz.

Tony Blair and Dick Cheney at the main door to 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister's residence in London, on 11 March 2002

Appointing Zafarullah Jamali as Prime minister in 2002, Musharraf accepted his resignation in 2004 and approved the appointment of Shaukat Aziz as Prime minister instead.

Prime Minister Helen Clark offered New Zealand's Chinese community an official apology for the poll tax on 12 February 2002.

Its turf-cutting ceremony was carried out on 18 February 2002 by the Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, and it was officially opened on 29 April 2005.

On March 19, 2002, the same gun was used to kill professor Marco Biagi, an economic advisor to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Following an interview in the monthly supplement of Helsingin Sanomat, Lynn's coauthor Tatu Vanhanen, a political scientist and father of the Prime Minister of Finland Matti Vanhanen, was investigated by the Finnish police between 2002 and 2004.

In the September 2002 parliamentary election, a last-minute surge in support for Prime Minister Dzurinda's Slovak Democratic and Christian Union ( SDKÚ ) gave him a mandate for a second term.

In December 2002, Đukanović resigned as president and was appointed Prime Minister.

* Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected as Prime Minister of Turkey in 2002.

* September 9 – John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 2002 )

* September 15 – The Swedish parliamentary election, 2002 leaves Prime Minister Göran Persson and the Social Democrats in power.

In fall 2001 Arnold Rüütel became the President of the Republic of Estonia, and in January 2002 Prime Minister Laar stepped down.

In the 2002 national election, a new party founded by former PLN Congressman and government Minister Ottón Solís captured 26 % of the vote, forcing a runoff election for the first time in the country's history.

Djermakoye joined the government as a Minister of State in November 2002, serving in that position until December 2004.

In South Australia, for the first time in the Nationals ' history, in 2002 the single Nationals member in the House of Assembly entered the Rann Labor Government as a Minister forming an informal coalition between the two parties.

Following a government crisis in 2002, Shaul Mofaz was controversially appointed Defense Minister by Ariel Sharon.

According to Salam Fayyad — a former World Bank official whom Arafat appointed Finance Minister of the PNA in 2002 — Arafat's commodity monopolies could accurately be seen as gouging his own people, " especially in Gaza which is poorer, which is something that is totally unacceptable and immoral.