The Winland Rice dissolved in 2002.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ), Bayonne is the first city recolonized by the Muslims after the total depopulation of Europe by the Black Death.

The Rice Board of Trustees established the Norman Hackerman Fellowship in Chemistry in honor of Hackerman's 90th birthday in 2002.

On December 16, 2002, the UN General Assembly declared the year 2004 the International Year of Rice.

* Rice University South Campus Master Plan, Houston, Texas, 2002

**" Life Sentence " ( 2002 )-Thomas Rice

Modified by Menken and Rice to work in the stage production, " Human Again " was later added to the film itself in a new scene produced for its 2002 IMAX reissue.

2002, Rice 2005a, b ) indicates that the Formicariidae as previously delimited are highly paraphyletic, judging from comparison of several mt and nDNA sequences.

* 2002 in art-Death of Inge Morath, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Niki de Saint Phalle, George Rickey, Richard Lippold, Stan Rice

* November 7-Stan Rice, American poet and artist ( d. 2002 ).

The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ) is an alternate history novel with major Buddhist and Islamic religious elements written by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, a thought experiment about a world in which neither Christianity nor the European cultures based on it achieve lasting impact on world history.

The Rice genome was sequenced in 2002 which became a cover story in Science.

* The Rice Genome: Beijing Genomics Institute ( Science, April 2002 )

* Kang Tongbi or Widow Kang, a character in The Years of Rice and Salt 2002 counterfactual novel

* " Cannonball " ( Damien Rice song ), a song by Damien Rice from his 2002 album O, covered by Little Mix in 2011

Beginning in 2002, the FWAA also began issuing a national poll to go along with the Grantland Rice Trophy.

In August 2002, Rice had his first race in the IRL for Red Bull Cheever Racing at Michigan International Speedway.

From 2002 to 2009, Benjamin engaged in numerous protest actions in which she shouted slogans, displayed banners, or both during events involving U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ; U. S. President George W. Bush ; U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ; and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, among others.

George Erik Rupp ( born September 22, 1942 ) is an American educator and theologian, the former President of Rice University and later of Columbia University, and president of the International Rescue Committee since July 2002.

* 2002 – University of Hawaii, School of Law – Symposium on Rice v. Cayetano, Keynote

After starring in the cult film Wet Hot American Summer, she played the role of Jesse in the 2002 film Queen of the Damned, based on the Anne Rice novels.

Daschle instead agreed to limit the investigation to the joint inquiry, which was announced February 14, 2002 after consultations with Cheney and Condoleezza Rice.

After four years, Dr. Cesario resigned as Director of Rice Bands in the summer of 2002, and was succeeded by Mr. Charles Throckmorton.

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

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

* 2002 – Carmen Silvera, English actress ( b. 1922 )

* 2002 – Alan Dale, American singer ( b. 1925 )

* 2002 – Pierre Rapsat, Belgian singer and songwriter ( b. 1948 )

* 2002 – Michael Houser, American guitarist ( Widespread Panic ) ( b. 1962 )

* 2002 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and politician ( b. 1926 )

* 2002 – George Alec Effinger, American author ( b. 1947 )

* 2002 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, created the Barbie doll ( b. 1916 )

* 2002 – Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector ( b. 1921 )

* 2002 – Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourgian sculptor ( b. 1908 )

* 2002 – John Agar, American actor ( b. 1921 )

The symbol for bit, as a unit of information, is either simply " bit " ( recommended by the ISO / IEC standard 80000-13 ( 2008 )) or lowercase " b " ( recommended by the IEEE 1541 Standard ( 2002 )).

* 2002 – James Hazeldine, English actor ( b. 1947 )

* 2002 – Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher ( b. 1926 )

* 2002 – Arno Peters, German historian ( b. 1916 )

* 2002 – Dave McNally, American baseball player ( b. 1942 )

* 2002 – Mary Brian, American actress ( b. 1906 )

* 2002 – Mary Wesley, English novelist ( b. 1912 )

* 2002 – Andres Küng, Swedish politician and journalist ( b. 1945 )

* 2002 – Zal Yanovsky, Canadian musician ( The Lovin ' Spoonful ) ( b. 1944 )

For instance, in the 55 Cancri system the first planet – 55 Cancri b – was discovered in 1996 ; two additional farther planets were simultaneously discovered in 2002 with the nearest to the star being named 55 Cancri c and the other 55 Cancri d ; a fourth planet was claimed ( its existence was later disputed ) in 2004 and named 55 Cancri e despite lying closer to the star than 55 Cancri b ; and the most recently discovered planet, in 2007, was named 55 Cancri f despite lying between 55 Cancri c and 55 Cancri d. As of April 2012 the highest letter in use is " j ", for the unconfirmed planet HD 10180 j ( HD 10180 h is the confirmed planet with the highest letter ).

* 2002 – George Nader, American film and TV actor ( b. 1921 )

* 2002 – Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland ( b. 1907 )