The United Kingdom established diplomatic relations with the DPRK on December 13, 2000, as did Canada in February 2001 followed by Germany and New Zealand on March 1, 2001.

The Unification Church in 2001 persuaded the North Korean government to relax its restrictions and permit Pyeonghwa Motors, a South Korean automaker with ties to the Church, to assemble cars in the DPRK and advertise them to North Koreans.

In 2001, it achieved high rankings in the annual Maclean's University Rankings, including Best Overall for Primarily Undergraduate University in their opinion survey, and it received the Canadian Information Productivity Award in 1997 as it was praised as the first university in Canada to fully utilize information technology in the undergraduate curriculum.

He was one of 9 hijackers to open a SunTrust bank account with a cash deposit around June 2001, and on June 29 received either a Florida State Identification Card or Drivers License.

Five other suspected hijackers also received duplicate Florida licenses in 2001, and others had licenses from different states.

Over 3, 000 law enforcement professionals from Sub-Saharan Africa have received training from ILEA since it began offering classes in 2001.

For their achievements Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle at MIT received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics.

From 1999 to 2001, Jane MacNaught was Coronation Street's executive producer, and received harsh criticism from both viewers and critics.

Enya won an Echo Award for best selling international single in Germany of 2001, and received a nomination for best selling album.

Similarly, the CD / DVD-ROM version of the Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite, received the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers, and Codie awards in 2000, 2001 and 2002.

In 2001 Nanni Moretti's film The Son's Room ( La stanza del figlio ) received the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

de Garis left in 2000, and ATR-HIP was closed on 28 February 2001. de Garis then moved to Starlab in Brussels, where he received a million dollars in funding from the government of Belgium (" over a third of the Brussels government's total budget for scientific research ", according to de Garis ).

In 2001, he received the Leo Baeck Medal for his humanitarian work promoting tolerance and social justice.

He was held at Camp Rhino until he was transferred to the on December 14, 2001 with other wounded detainees, where his wound was operated on and he received further care.

After a relatively low phase, she reinvented herself with the romance Dil To Pagal Hai ( 1997 ) and subsequently received critical acclaim for her work in films like Mrityudand ( 1997 ), Pukar ( 2000 ), Lajja ( 2001 ) and Devdas ( 2002 ).

It has received many awards, including Best Picture at the 2001 Japanese Academy Awards, Golden Bear ( First Prize ) at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival, and the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

The Museum's founder David Wilson received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 2001.

A critically acclaimed 2001 Chicago Shakespeare Theater production, directed by Gary Griffin, transferred to the West End Donmar Warehouse, where it ran from June 30, 2003 until September 6, 2003 and received the 2003 Olivier Award for Best Musical Production.

The PowerBook line was targeted at the professional market, and received numerous awards, especially in the second half of its life, such as the 2001 Industrial Design Excellence Awards " Gold " status, and Engadget's 2005 " Laptop of the Year ".

A second initiative aimed at the army's dissolution in late 2001 received a mere 21. 9 % support.

In February 2002 they received the 2001 A. M. Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM ), with the citation: " For ideas fundamental to the emergence of object oriented programming, through their design of the programming languages Simula I and Simula 67.

On June 12, 2001 Saeed al-Ghamdi applied for and received a second two-year US B-1 / B-2 ( tourist / business ) visa in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

* The final episode, " Fall Out ", received a Hugo Award nomination for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1969, but lost out to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The cover created by Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly for the September 24, 2001 issue of The New Yorker received wide acclaim and was voted in the top ten of magazine covers of the past 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors, which commented:

Arc System Works received critical acclaim for releasing Guilty Gear X in 2001, as well as its sequel Guilty Gear XX, as both were 2D fighting games featuring striking anime inspired graphics.

In 2001, YES YOKO ONO, a forty-year retrospective of Ono's work, received the prestigious International Association of Art Critics USA Award for Best Museum Show Originating in New York City, considered one of the highest accolades in the museum profession.

The Herald continued to grow, expanding its coverage and increasing its circulation until 2001, when nearly all newspapers fell victim to declining circulations and revenue.

Reconstruction from Mitch was still underway when, in early 2001, the country experienced a series of devastating earthquakes that left nearly 2, 000 people dead or missing, 8, 000 injured, and caused severe dislocations across all sectors of Salvadoran society.

Total official development assistance from all sources was more than $ 100 million in 2001, with nearly 90 % of that total coming from the U. S.

After experiencing GDP growth averaging nearly six percent a year in the late 1990s, economic growth declined considerably after 2001 as a result of a decline in the tourism industry following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and damages caused by several hurricanes.

As a result, public support for the government sank to nearly record lows by early 2001.

Most of Pakistan's public and private banks are headquartered on Karachi's I. I. Chundrigar Road ; according to a 2001 report, nearly 60 % of the cashflow of the Pakistani economy takes place on I. I. Chundrigar Road.

Real GDP growth since 2001 has averaged 2. 8 percent, nearly 2 percentage points lower than growth in other Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) member countries.

However, of this metropolitan population, in 2001 nearly half lived in low-density neighborhoods, with only one in five living in a typical " urban " neighborhood.

The assassination of Massoud is believed to have a connection to the September 11, 2001 attacks on U. S. soil, which killed nearly 3000 people, and which appeared to be the terrorist attack that Massoud had warned against in his speech to the European Parliament several months earlier.

Commander William S. Donaldson III ( 1944 – August 22, 2001 ) was a United States Navy pilot with more than 24 years of experience in nearly all phases of naval aviation and Vietnam War veteran.

" The United States Environmental Protection Agency report dated October 2002 and released in December 2002 titled " Exposure and Human Health Evaluation of Airborne Pollution from the World Trade Center Disaster " authored by the EPA Office of Research and Development in Washington states that dioxin levels recorded at a monitoring station on Park Row near City Hall Park in New York between October 12 and 29, 2001, averaged 5. 6 parts per trillion, or nearly six times the highest dioxin level ever recorded in the U. S. Dioxin levels in the rubble of the World Trade Centers were much higher with concentrations ranging from 10 to 170 parts per trillion.

By convincing banks to lend again, as well as changing and standardizing mortgage instruments and procedures, home ownership has increased from 40 % in the 1930s to nearly 70 % in 2001.

By 2001, 16 % of people living in Austria had nationalities other than Austrian, nearly half of whom were from former Yugoslavia, primarily Serbs ; the next most numerous nationalities in Vienna were Turks ( 39, 000 ; 2. 5 %), Poles ( 13, 600 ; 0. 9 %) and Germans ( 12, 700 ; 0. 8 %).

Creator Jennifer Saunders revived the show as a fourth series in 2001 after having written and submitted a pilot to the BBC entitled Mirrorball, which recruited nearly all of the original " Absolutely Fabulous " cast in new roles.

The value of Mozambique's currency, the Metical, lost nearly 50 % of its value against the U. S. dollar since December 2000, although in late 2001 it began to stabilize.

Even with the departure of Martin Walkyier in 2001, Skyclad remains an active folk metal group today after nearly two decades since their formation.

In 2001, the conference nearly doubled in size and was reorganized with the five current members forming the North Division, and newcomers Austin Peay State University, Davidson College, Jacksonville University and Morehead State University forming the South Division.

It is the fourth largest town in the county and had a population of nearly 11, 000 people in the 2001 Census.

The district has grown substantially in recent decades, with high school enrollment doubling to nearly 2, 000 in the decade prior to 2001, and increasing by another 1, 000 in the subsequent decade.

However, it grew by nearly 800 residents in 2001 when it merged with neighboring Arlington.

The church was nearly destroyed in 1945, but it has been restored since 1975 to house a concert hall ( opened 2001 ).

Most notably, the record flooding in 2001 and 2002 nearly destroyed Welch altogether.

Located in a valley along the Guyandotte River within a mountainous region of southern West Virginia, the town was nearly destroyed by flash flooding in July 2001.