In 2002, Veneman received the California Council for International Trade Golden State Award, the Dutch American Heritage Award, Junior Statesman Foundation Statesman of the Year Award and the United Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Distinguished Service Award.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

An the other hand, the armed forces of the MPLA ( now the official armed forces of the Angolan state ) and of UNITA fought each other until the leader of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, was killed in action, in 2002.

In 2002 one was lost during the civil war with UNITA forces.

From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

The Intelligent Mechatronics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Tokyo University of Science, has developed an android head called Saya, which was exhibited at Robodex 2002 in Yokohama, Japan.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

The electricity distribution system was privatized in 2002.

According to estimates by the National Statistical Survey, the rate of labor emigration was twice as higher in 2001 and 2002.

Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.

In 2002, a theoretical attack, termed the " XSL attack ", was announced by Nicolas Courtois and Josef Pieprzyk, purporting to show a weakness in the AES algorithm due to its simple description .< ref >

* In 2002, Fleming was named in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a nationwide vote.

In 2002, O ' Donohue launched a court action that argued the Act of Settlement violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but the case was dismissed by the court, which found that, as the Act of Settlement is part of the Canadian constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not have supremacy over it.

Every game during the 2002 season was sold out.

Vick, who saw minimal playing time in 2001, playing backup and learning the system under then-starting quarterback Chris Chandler, was designated starting quarterback for the 2002 season.

The 2002 season was the Falcons ' first in the more geographically-accurate NFC South upon NFL realignment.

A beta test version of AIX 5L for IA-64 systems was released, but according to documents released in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit, less than forty licenses for the finished Monterey Unix were ever sold before the project was terminated in 2002.

Remarkably " Aster " was also the name given to a Dutch Supercomputer much later, in 2002.

18-bis Legge 91 / 1981 mainly for the abnormal signing in 2002 – 03 season, ( such as Davide Bombardini for € 11 million account value, which the flopped player exchange boosted 2002 – 03 season result ) and the tax payment of 2002 – 03 season was rescheduled.

In 1998 the 2, 000th DB7 was built, and in 2002 the 6, 000th, exceeding production of all previous DB models.

The WSF became a periodic meeting: in 2002 and 2003 it was held again in Porto Alegre and became a rallying point for worldwide protest against the American invasion of Iraq.

The first European Social Forum ( ESF ) was held in November 2002 in Florence.

In 2002 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, resulting in a mastectomy and chemotherapy.

In the United States, following a series of landmark cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, persons diagnosed with paraphilias and a history of anti-social behavior, particularly pedophilia ( Kansas v. Hendricks, 1997 ) and exhibitionism ( Kansas v. Crane, 2002 ), can be held indefinitely in civil confinement under various state legislation generically known as Sexually violent predator laws and the federal Adam Walsh Act ( United States v. Comstock, 2010 ).

In June 2002, the American Journal of Medical Genetics published results from a longitudinal prospective cohort Denver Family Development Study led by pediatrician and geneticist Arthur Robinson, which found that in fourteen prenatally diagnosed 47, XYY boys ( from high socioeconomic status families ), IQ scores available for six boys ranged from 100 – 147 with a mean of 120.

In early 2002, Ebert was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer.

Harris was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in August 2002, reportedly after being hospitalised with pneumonia.

As it turned out, there was a reason for her winding down the number of public appearances each year: In 2002, she announced during an interview with Vea that she had been diagnosed with cancer in 1985.

In early 2002, guitarist Michael Houser was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

She was diagnosed with the latter in December 2002, had a mastectomy in January 2003, and chemotherapy.

In September 2002, he was diagnosed with breast cancer and, since then, has assumed a national role in raising awareness of the disease among men.

He was diagnosed with melanoma in March 2001, from which he died on 29 December 2002.

Since the exact diagnostic criteria of the minimally conscious state were formulated only in 2002, there may be chronic patients diagnosed as PVS before the notion of the minimally conscious state became known.

In 2002, Sutton was diagnosed with kidney cancer resulting in the removal of his left kidney.

In 2002, doctors diagnosed Lange as having amyloidosis, a rare and incurable blood plasma disorder.

In 2002, after being diagnosed with throat cancer, he underwent successful radiation treatment, and went into remission.

Other isolated cases include Stuyvesant's 2002 Class President Amit Friedlander, who received local press coverage in September 2006 after he was diagnosed with cancer.

" In 2002, after being diagnosed with the disease, Fulton remained at his own home and fronted that year's Alzheimer Scotland Christmas appeal.

Shaffer was diagnosed with liver cancer, and died of its complications soon after on May 5, 2002.

In 2002, just two years after the album's release, Zevon was diagnosed with mesothelioma, which killed him a year later.

He was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme on 29 August 2002, and wrote about his battle against the cancer on the BBC News website in a series entitled Tumour Diary.

The first series began in 1998 and was abruptly halted in 2002 when it was discovered that Turner had been diagnosed with cancer.

In 2002, Reese announced on Larry King Live that she had been diagnosed with type-2 diabetes.

After some years of indifferent health, Waldron was diagnosed with cancer in 2002.

In 2002, Waller and Worley agreed to complete the story ; Worley was diagnosed with lung cancer, and began chemotherapy and radiation treatments in that year.

In 2002, Worley was diagnosed with cancer ; she and Waller reconciled enough to produce several more issues of Omaha before she succumbed in 2004.