* December 29 – Susie Garrett, American actress and sister of Marla Gibbs ( d. 2002 )

Gibbs had been filling in for Wong on various tours since early 2002.

More recently, in 2002 a translation by Laura Gibbs titled Aesop's Fables was published by Oxford World's Classics.

Lawrence and Gibbs have two daughters: Iyanna Faith ( born November 9, 2000 ) and Amara Trinity ( born August 20, 2002 ).

To date, he is the most successful driver for Joe Gibbs Racing with 33 wins and two championships ( 2002 and 2005 ).

In 1983 he joined the Fulham Labour Party, becoming a Hammersmith and Fulham councillor for Gibbs Green ward in 1986, and from 2002 he was councillor for the North End ward in West Kensington.

Gibbs Smith Publisher, 2002.

Letherman had a small role in the 2002 movie Clockstoppers as Kelly Gibbs, and has made guest appearances on TV Shows, talk shows, and game shows.

Coy Gibbs ran five races in the # 20 in 2002, with sponsorship from ConAgra Foods.

Gibbs was first elected to the Ohio General Assembly in 2002, defeating Democrat Tom Mason of Ashland for a newly drawn district in the Ohio House.

However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing " small ball ," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.

Compaq struggled as a result of the collapse of the Dot-com bubble bust, which hurt sales of their high-end systems in 2001 and 2002, and they managed only a small profit in a few quarters during these years.

In 2002, tin was discovered in the east of the country, but, to date, mining has been on a small scale.

One was recorded in 1812 ; one measuring 7. 6 on the Richter Scale hit on November 30, 1983 at 21: 46 local time and lasted 142 seconds, resulting in a small tsunami which raised wave height in the lagoon to 1. 5 metres ( 5 ft ), and another on December 2, 2002, an earthquake measuring 4. 6 on the Richter Scale struck the island at 12: 21 a. m.

Beginning in 2002, a small portion of the base was used to detain several hundred alleged combatants at Camp Delta, Camp Echo, Camp Iguana, and the now-closed Camp X-Ray.

Following the collapse of the Ur-III dynasty at the hands of the Elamites ( 2002 BC traditional, 1940 BC short ), the Amorites gained control over most of Mesopotamia, where they formed a series of small kingdoms.

" Moldova's stock exchange is very small, listing fewer than 25 companies in 2002.

In July 2002, a crisis broke with Spain over an uninhabited small island lying just less than 200 meters from the Moroccan coast, named Toura or Leila by Moroccans, and Isla Perejil by Spain.

Small scale clashes between militias belonging to different commanders persisted throughout 2002, and were the focus of intensive UN peace-brokering and small arms disarmament programme.

In 2002, Kim Jong-Il declared that " money should be capable of measuring the worth of all commodities ", followed by some small market-oriented measures, and the creation of the Kaesong Industrial Region with transport links to South Korea was announced.

After a series of high-profile guerrilla actions, including the hijacking of an aircraft, the attack on several small towns and cities, the arrest of the Irish Colombia Three ( see below ) and the alleged training of FARC-EP militants in bomb making by them, and the kidnapping of several political figures, Pastrana ended the peace talks on 21 February 2002 and ordered the armed forces to start retaking the FARC-EP controlled zone, beginning at midnight.

Dan Immergluck writes that in 2002 small businesses in black neighborhoods still received fewer loans, even after accounting for businesses density, businesses size, industrial mix, neighborhood income, and the credit quality of local businesses.

Despite the departure of most Chinese nationals from Somalia in 1991, the two countries maintained a small trading relationship ; total trade volume in 2002 was US $ 3. 39 million, with Somalia exporting US $ 1. 56 million of goods to China and importing $ 1. 83 million.

However, the most common image of terrorism is that it is carried out by small and secretive cells, highly motivated to serve a particular cause and many of the most deadly operations in recent times, such as the September 11 attacks, the London underground bombing, and the 2002 Bali bombing were planned and carried out by a close clique, composed of close friends, family members and other strong social networks.

The Weißeritz, normally a rather small river, suddenly ran directly into the main station of Dresden during the 2002 European floods.

She gained critical acclaim for her performances in The Object of My Affection ( 1998 ), a comedy-drama about a woman who falls for a gay man ( played by Paul Rudd ), and in the low-budget 2002 film The Good Girl, playing an unglamorous cashier in a small town.

The Republicans came out of the 2000 elections with a further reduced majority, but made small gains in 2002 and 2004.

Following the collapse of the last Sumerian " Ur-III " dynasty at the hands of the Elamites ( 2002 BC traditional, 1940 BC short ), the Amorites, another Semitic people, gradually gained control over most of southern Mesopotamia, where they formed a series of small kingdoms, while the Assyrians reasserted their independence in the north.

A new area showing commercial promise is domestic robots, with a flood of small vacuuming robots beginning with iRobot and Electrolux in 2002.

Bearman and Bruckman ( 2002 ) criticized early studies of concentrating on small, select samples and non-representative selection of their subjects.

The contemporary typefaces used by computers, from simple word processing programs like Microsoft Word or Apple Pages to professional designers ' software packages like Adobe InDesign, owe a considerable debt to the past and to a small number of professional typeface designers today ( Zapf 2007 ; Mediavilla 2006 ; Henning 2002 ).

For example, during the Argentine economic crisis of 2002, small denomination, interest-free provincial bond IOUs issued by local governments quickly took on some of the characteristics of local currencies successfully.

In the great conflict between 1998 and 2002, during which Congo was divided into three parts, multiple opportunistic militias, called Mai Mai, sprang up, supplied by the arms dealers around the world that profit in small arms trading, including the US, Russia, China, and other countries.

The sequence was published in 1998, although a number of small gaps were present ; the last gap was finished by October 2002.

In 2002, a small team of internal auditors at WorldCom worked together, often at night and in secret, to investigate and unearth $ 3. 8 billion in fraud.

The pacas ( genus Cuniculus ) are placed by some authorities ( Woods, 1993 ; McKenna and Bell, 1997 ) in the Dasyproctidae, but molecular studies have demonstrated that they do not form a monophyletic group ( Rowe and Honeycutt, 2002 ).

In 2001, a group of activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process was openly supported by former US president Jimmy Carter during his historic 2002 visit to Cuba.

The group became dormant in the following two years, and on May 24, 2002, officially announced their breakup amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group over their record contract.

Heads of communion from each member of COCU ( as well as the ELCA, a partner in mission and dialogue ) inaugurated the group on the day before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 2002 at the motel where he was killed.

The Cabaret Voltaire fell into disrepair until it was occupied from January to March, 2002, by a group proclaiming themselves Neo-Dadaists, led by Mark Divo.

From 1951 to 2002, Ackerman entertained some 50, 000 fans at open houses-including, on one such evening, a group of 186 fans and professionals including astronaut Buzz Aldrin.

In February 2002, Morpheus, a commercial file sharing group, abandoned its FastTrack-based peer-to-peer software and released a new client based on the free and open source gnutella client Gnucleus.

The Global Climate Coalition ( 1989 – 2002 ) was a group of mainly United States businesses opposing immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2002 the renamed BAE Systems resold HK to a group of private investors, who created the German group holding company ( HK Beteiligungs-GmbH ).

group Idolisto during November 2005 showed that 57 % had begun their studies of the language during the past three years, 32 % from the mid-1990s to 2002, and 8 % had known the language from before.

According to the industry group Craft Yarn Council of America, the number of women knitters in the United States age 25 – 35 increased 150 % in the two years between 2002 and 2004.

" Forever Changes " was praised by a group of Members of the British Parliament in 2002 as being one of the greatest albums of all time.

This issue came up again in 2002, when Riefenstahl was one hundred years old and she was taken to court by a Roma group for denying the Nazis had exterminated gypsies.

* 2001 – Members of Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an upscale island resort on Palawan in the Philippines ; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.

The earliest fossils attributed to the Polaes dates to the late Cretaceous period about 65. 5 million years ago, though some studies ( e. g., Bremer, 2002 ) suggest the origin of the of the group may extend to nearly 115 million years ago, likely in South America.

Also, in 2002, a large group of prairie dogs in captivity in Texas were found to have contracted tularemia.

The film is rumored to depict the life and story of the group beginning from their inception in Hollis, Queens, and leading up to the 2002 murder of Jam-Master Jay.

Railtrack was a group of companies that owned the track, signalling, tunnels, bridges, level crossings and all but a handful of the stations of the British railway system from its formation in April 1994 until 2002.

Laboratory rats have also proved valuable in psychological studies of learning and other mental processes ( Barnett, 2002 ), as well as to understand group behavior and overcrowding ( with the work of John B. Calhoun on behavioral sink ).

According to the 2002 census, Slovenia's main ethnic group are the Slovenes ( 83 %).

There have been a few exceptions, notably in 2002 when the New York City administration agreed to turn over eleven squatted buildings in the Lower East Side to an established non-profit group, on the condition that the apartments would later be turned over to the tenants as low-income housing cooperatives.

In 2002, Robertson bought all other former members ' financial interests in the group, with the exception of Helm, giving him major control of the presentation of the group's material, including latter-day compilations.

In 2002, a Kahanist group known as " Revenge of the Toddlers " claimed responsibility for a bombing attack at Tzur Baher, an East Jerusalem secondary school for Arab boys, that wounded seven.

The group also claimed credit for the 2003 bombing of a Palestinian school in Jaba that injured 20 and was thought to be linked to the 2002 Zil Elementary school bombing.