Despite having completely dropped out of the public eye for five years after the gold-selling Test for Echo ( which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 ) and the band being relegated almost solely to classic rock stations in the U. S., Vapor Trails reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week of release in 2002 with 108, 000 albums sold.

Controversy surrounded the network in 2002 and 2003 over obscenities, expressed respectively by Cher and Nicole Richie, aired live on the network's broadcasts of the Billboard Music Awards on its affiliates in the Eastern and Central Time Zones despite the use of five-second audio delays ; the indecent material was edited out on broadcasts in the Mountain Time Zone and westward.

The Long Fall Back To Earth debuted at No. 29 on the Billboard 200 mainstream charts, which was Jars of Clay's highest debut since The Eleventh Hour which debuted at No. 28 in 2002.

* 2002 – Coming Of Age ( live, 13 March 1997, Billboard, Los Angeles, USA )

In 2002, they released their third album, Power In Numbers which peaked at # 15 on the Billboard 200 chart.

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Their second album, Away from the Sun, ( 2002 ) continued the band's success ; it debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 chart and went multi-platinum in the United States like its predecessor.

The album was released on December 10, 2002 and debuted at number ten on the Billboard 200 and at number three on Top R & B / Hip Hop Albums.

After a hiatus between 2002 and 2005, the band released Warpaint, which hit number 5 on the Billboard chart.

* No Secrets ( released August 6, 2002, peaked at # 136 on the Billboard 200 )

They released a brand new album Hollyweird in 2002 and in 2006 the band celebrated their 20 year Anniversary with The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock tour and album, which was certified Gold and marked Poison's return to the Billboard 200 top 20 charts for the first time since 1993.

Their subsequent three studio albums recorded with producer Neal Avron ; New Found Glory ( 2000 ), Sticks and Stones ( 2002 ), and Catalyst ( 2004 ) all charted on the Billboard 200 and achieved gold certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ).

Third album and major label debut, Sticks and Stones was released on June 11, 2002 and peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 chart.

However, " Daylight in Your Eyes " peaked at number 36 on the Billboard Hot Singles Sales chart in June 2002.

In a 2002 interview for Billboard, Massenburg expressed his view on the backlash and intentions of marketing the neo soul term, stating:

Saliva later released their third studio album titled Back into Your System on November 12, 2002 which reached No. 19 on the Billboard 200.

In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award ; the highest accolade from Billboard Magazine.

* 2002 – Billboard Century Award by Billboard

In 2002 " Headstrong " was the first, and it reached No. 1 on both the Modern Rock Tracks and Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks charts, as well as No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking their most successful single to date.

Swedish band Meshuggah became the first band in the history of Nuclear Blast Records to crack the Billboard 200, landing at number 165 with their 2002 album, Nothing.

Lacuna Coil ’ s 2002 album, Comalies, became Century Media ’ s first act to crack the Billboard 200 album chart, peaking at # 178 two years after its release.

The December 2002 issue of Gear magazine featured a story about technologies and trends that could violate personal privacy moving society closer to a " Big Brother " state and utilised a recreation of the movie poster from the film version of 1984 created by Dallmeierart. com.

In 2002, the anime character was acclaimed as an Asian Hero in a special feature survey conducted by Time Asia magazine.

Jacobs, an editor at Esquire magazine, read the entire 2002 version of the 15th edition, describing his experiences in the well-received 2004 book, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World.

On the 10. 11. 2002 the economics magazine Cash published 5 measures which political and economic actors were suggested to implement so that Switzerland would once again experience an economic revival:

* http :// money. cnn. com / magazines / fortune / fortune_archive / 2002 / 01 / 21 / 316599 / index. htm Fortune magazine 2002 cover story on Sandler O ' Neill

A traditional Chinese edition, known as 科學人 (“ Scientist ” in Chinese ), was introduced to Taiwan in 2002, and has been developed to the best popular science magazine in Taiwan.

In 2002 Q magazine named The Pogues as one of the " 50 Bands To See Before You Die ".

From 1998 to 2002 he served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine.

* Editor in Chief ( 1998 – 2002 ), Columnist ( 1996 – 1998 ), Editor in Chief Emeritus ( 2003 – 2007 ) IEEE Software magazine

The magazine ran until November 2002.

Kari Traa was elected " Sexiest woman in Norway " in 2002 by the magazine MANN.

In 2002 DaimlerChrysler tried to re-enter the North American market and engaged in 4 years of aggressive marketing, such as truck and trade shows, exposure on the television show Modern Marvels, numerous magazine articles and extensive demonstrations ( both touring and on an individual basis ).

In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the " 50 Bands to See Before You Die.

On March 21, 2002, MPT announced that beginning in June the program would be renamed Wall Street Week with Fortune, would be a collaboration between MPT and Fortune magazine, and would feature two new cohosts.

" In 2002, Hobsbawm was described by right-leaning magazine The Spectator as " arguably our greatest living historian — not only Britain's, but the world's ", while Niall Ferguson wrote: " That Hobsbawm is one of the great historians of his generation is undeniable.

Hana's surfing culture was profiled by writer Susan Orlean in Outside magazine in 1998, inspiring the 2002 film Blue Crush.

In a January 2002 interview for politics / current affairs magazine Magill, Norris discussed the age of consent, incest, pedophilia and pederasty.

It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1987 to 2002, before being transferred to the monthly seinen magazine Ultra Jump in 2004.

In the June 2002 issue of Animage magazine, the series was first in a list of the best twenty anime series in Japan.

Adam Curtis's award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC, The Century of the Self, pinpoints Bernays as the originator of modern public relations, and Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life magazine.

According to a report in New Scientist magazine ( May 4, 2002, p. 13 ), the researchers found an underwater delta south of the Bosporus.

According to an interview with Sound On Sound magazine in 2002, the piano sounds heard within the score come from the Roland MKS – 20, a rackmount synthesizer.

According to an online 2002 survey in Stern magazine, 14 / 2002, 82 percent of residents living in the Bayerischer Untermain region where Aschaffenburg is located were satisfied with the place where they lived.