In January 2003 red pandas died after eating rat poison that had been buried in their yard by a pest control contractor.

During the night of 1 April 2003, with support from the 410th, the Rangers seized the dam, a power station, and a transformer yard while facing light to moderate enemy resistance.

Following a speech to students at Mexico City's Ibero-American University on November 11, 2003, in which Aguilar claimed that the political and intellectual class of the United States sees Mexico as " a country whose position is that of a back yard " ( patio trasero ) and that Washington was interested in only " a relationship of convenience and subordination " and " a weekend fling " ( un noviazgo de fin de semana ), President Fox requested his resignation on 18 November.

The following season in 2003, Heap garnered 57 receptions for 693 yards and 3 touchdowns, despite the Ravens having a run-first offense, behind the record breaking 2066 yard rushing season of Jamal Lewis.

After enjoying a breakout 2003 season behind a run blocking line in which Barlow had a 5. 1 yard per carry average and 1024 yards, Barlow became a restricted free agent.

On January 13, 2008, during the 2007 divisional playoff round, he caught a 52 yard touchdown pass, his longest since a 77 yard touchdown on November 30, 2003.

It was also Booker's fourth career catch of 60 yards or longer and his longest since he had a 61 yard TD catch on December 7, 2003 at Green Bay as a member of the Chicago Bears.

He blocked for 4, 000 yard passers for five seasons while Elvis Grbac did it in 2000 and Trent Green in 2003, 2004, and 2005.

2003: Recorded his first 1, 000 yard receiving season with 1687 yards and was named both a Western and a CFL All-Star for the first time in his career.

Owned by IHC Caland ( now SBM Offshore ), the yard went into liquidation in October 2003 primarily due to aggressive competition from other parts of the world such as South Korea.

From its formation in 1966, the company was based at the former Thornycroft shipbuilding yard at Woolston in Southampton, Hampshire but in 2003 relocated its shipbuilding operations to new facilities in the famous HMNB Portsmouth Naval Dockyard under the name VT Shipbuilding.

The FWWR leased two Union Pacific Railroad properties, a yard and branch line, in 2002 and 2003 respectively.

Hanson nearly matched his average during the first nine games of the 2003 season, posting a 43. 5 yard average in that period.

Ricard was a key contributor in helping Jamal Lewis achieve his 2, 066 yard rushing season in 2003, and he made the Pro Bowl as an alternate.

The yard built the giant superliner RMS Queen Mary 2 for the Cunard Line in 2003.

In 2003 China's major coastal ports handled 2. 1 billion tons of freight.

For 2005, the port handled 317, 897 twenty-foot-equivalent units of containers, more than double the amount for 2003.

The new central building, Arlanda North, opened late 2003, connecting terminal 5 with the newly built Pier F. All international flights handled by SAS and its Star Alliance partners use the new central building.

Programming changes have also taken place, with the introduction of News To Me, a program featuring only user-generated content, in May, a daily broadcast of the previous evening's Larry King Live, in June, and a shift towards the channel's rolling news coverage being handled by a single anchor, deviating from the channel's traditional dual anchor format since 2003.

When the Government changed hands in late 2003, problems were expected between the leftist President and a Government with rightist members, but Mesić handled the situation gracefully and there were few notable incidents in this regard.

All US domestic flights were handled by DHL Airways, Inc. which in 2003 was renamed ASTAR Air Cargo.

* Peter Pan ( 2003 ) ( first film distributed by Universal Pictures, international distribution rights handled by Columbia Pictures )

The GFA appealed to the world's highest sporting court, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ( CAS ), which in 2003 ruled that the GFA application should be handled according to the old statute.

The book was critical of past and present Presidential administrations for the way they handled the war on terror both before and after September 11, 2001 but focused much of its criticism on Bush for failing to take sufficient action to protect the country in the elevated-threat period before the September 11, 2001 attacks and for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which Clarke feels greatly hampered the war on terror, and was a distraction from the real terrorists.

It handled 20. 4 million TEUs ( 20-foot equivalent units ) in 2003.

As of 2003 nominations are handled through a state liaison which schools must contact for nomination.

According to the DPC, the port handled 23. 5 million tonnes of cargo in 2003, as well as 1, 426, 000 passengers.

The marshal who handled the invader was later awarded the BARC Browning Medal for " outstanding bravery in tackling a track invader during the 2003 British Grand Prix at Silverstone ", the second to do so after David Purley 21 years previously.

The court was created by the Coalition Provisional Authority in 2003 to handle cases involving serious crimes such as governmental corruption, terrorism and organized crime that were previously handled by governorate level judges in the ordinary criminal courts.

According to statistics from 2003, the Osaka Securities Exchange handled 59 % of the stock price index futures market in Japan, and almost 100 % of trading in the options market.

In her American debut, she lost, however, being handled her first professional defeat at the hands of Roselin Morales, who defeated Nunez by a four round split decision on October 23, 2003, in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

From 2003 to 2009, distribution of the bands work was handled by The Drop in New Zealand and Australia, by Sonar Kollektiv and Best Seven in most of Europe, and by Kartel in England.

Home computer ports were handled by Ocean Software ; the 2003 PlayStation port was handled by Altron.

At the end of 1999, the terminal handled, which rose to in 2000, in 2001, and in 2002, and in 2003 outstripping Port Klang and ther11eby establishing itself as Malaysia's largest port.

Schwartz has played drums for every " Weird Al " Yankovic concert since 1981, except for three shows during the 2003 Poodle Hat Tour ; a minor illness prevented him from playing the drums, and bassist Steve Jay's friend and collaborator Pete Gallagher, who was working as a tech on that tour, sat-in on the drums while Schwartz handled the electronics, cues, and vocals from behind the drum riser.

Following the BMG purchase in December 2002 and subsequent integration in June 2003 and the end of contracts with EMI ( also in June ), all distribution has been handled by the local BMG companies.

It handled 20. 4 million TEUs ( 20-foot equivalent units ) in 2003.

The acoustic and technical considerations of The Warehouse Studio while it was being built, and up until 2003, were handled by Ron " Obvious " Vermeulen.

* In February 2003, the Boomerang Nebula was observed to have been releasing gases at a speed of 500, 000 km / h ( over 300, 000 mph ) for the last 1, 500 years.

* 2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.

Known as Larzac 2003, the gathering was held over three days in August and attracted an estimated 300. 000 people to a series of concerts and political forums.

When fully implemented, CAIR will reduce SO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions in 28 eastern states and the District of Columbia by over 70 percent and NOx emissions by over 60 percent from 2003 levels.

Lara also holds the test record of scoring most number of runs in a single over in a Test match, when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003.

The current Governor of the Bank of England is Sir Mervyn King, who took over on 30 June 2003 from Sir Edward George.

The Victoria Dean of Students cancelled Novemberfest in 2003, when police discovered widespread underage drinking and over 800 people in the dining hall, in violation of the fire code.

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry ", became a catchphrase the world over ( the phrase was used again, first in Ang Lee's Hulk ( 2003 ), although in Spanish, and again in the 2008 movie The Incredible Hulk, with an altered version in Portuguese ).

The anti-French sentiment, peaking in early 2003, spilled over onto airports when 1, 500 French nationals were trapped in Abidjan's airport by an anti-French mob.

The government's economic policy and democratic security strategy have engendered a growing sense of confidence in the economy, particularly within the business sector, and GDP growth in 2003 was among the highest in Latin America, at over 4 %.

On March 15, 2004, Amiga, Inc. announced that on April 23, 2003 it had transferred its rights over past and future versions of the Amiga OS ( but not over other intellectual property ) to Itec, LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc., a Delaware company.

DR Congo had a transitional government in July 2003 until the election was over.

In recent years, Djibouti has seen significant improvement in macroeconomic stability, with its annual gross domestic product improving at an average of over 3 percent since 2003.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

A large plume of Saharan Desert dust ( light brownish pixels ) blown across Libya and Egypt northward over the Mediterranean Sea toward the Middle East, on February 2, 2003.

The Economy of Eritrea has experienced modest growth in recent years, indicated by an improvement in Gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 2004 of 2. 5 % over 2003.

In 2003 GDP was estimated to have grown by 2 percent, a slight improvement over 2002, the last year for which firm figures are available, when GDP expanded by 1. 8 percent in real terms to about US $ 600 million.

); 9 ships ( with a volume of or over ) / ( 2003 est.

The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 establishes national standards for direct marketing over e-mail.

* 2003 – Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide.

* 2003 – During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the club ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.

* Brad Penny ( 2000 – 2004 ) — In 2003, Penny collected the win in Florida's NLCS clinching victory over the Chicago Cubs and in the World Series against the New York Yankees he went 2 – 0 with a 2. 19 ERA in his two starts.