* 2002 – Daniel Pearl, American Journalist, South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.

Effective January 24, 2003, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ( ATF ), which had been a bureau of the Department since 1972, was extensively reorganized under the provisions of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

* Men are 15 % of custodial parents in 2002, unchanged since 1994-U. S. Census Bureau

Despite its remote location, the school has been involved in state and national activities, hosting the military's " Operation Arctic Care " outreach health program in 2002, and briefly becoming involved with reporting for CNN Student Bureau that same year.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau it was merged with Scandia Valley Township on 31 December 2002.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau it was merged from Rail Prairie Township on 31 December 2002.

According to records by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, in 2002, 2008 and 2009, no murders were committed for the entire year.

* The Doctrines and Practice of Nichiren Shoshu, Nichiren Shoshu Overseas Bureau, 2002.

Films based on Dick's works include Blade Runner ( 1982 ), Total Recall ( 1990 ), Impostor ( 2001 ), Minority Report ( 2002 ), Paycheck ( 2003 ), A Scanner Darkly ( 2006 ), and The Adjustment Bureau ( 2011 ).

1999 – 2002: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee.

2002 –: Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.

Li was a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China until November 2002.

According to the Hong Kong Audit Bureau of Circulations in September 2002, the daily circulation of the newspaper was 302, 197 copies, making it the third largest daily newspaper in Hong Kong.

The Kure City Transportation Bureau ( Kure City Bus ) started using natural gas in 2002.

In the 2002 Census of Governments, the United States Census Bureau enumerated the following numbers of school systems in the United States:

On January 24, 2003, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( the Act ) split functions of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ( ATF ), into two new organizations with separate functions.

On September 14, 2002, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) held a press conference in Buffalo to announce the arrests of five of the local Al Qaeda suspects.

A twelve inch spacer that keeps the left main landing gear in alignment had not been replaced after recent maintenance, though the 2002 French Bureau Enquetes-Accidents investigation concluded that this did not contribute to the accident.

Since 2002, she has had a recurring role on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where she plays Judge Elizabeth Donnelly, who served as a Bureau Chief ADA in the Manhattan District Attorney's office before being appointed to the bench in Season 7.

In 2002 Kristof wrote a series of columns indirectly suggesting that Steven Hatfill, a former US Army germ-warfare researcher named a " person of interest " by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), might be a " likely culprit " in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

According to the Census Bureau, in 2002, town or township government applied to 16, 504 organized governments in the following 20 states:

The Bureau of Reclamation sponsored a six-state research program from 2002 – 2006, however, called the " Weather Damage Modification Program ".

Based on data from the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2002, about 612, 000 software engineers work in the U. S. The size of all software engineering is about 60 % the size of all traditional engineering.

According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report issued May 2002, " In 1950, the overall participation rate of women was 34 percent.

* Bloomberg News, FTC Says Alcohol Type Not Aimed at Minors, Los Angeles Times, June 5, 2002.

Sterling Clarren of the University of Washington's Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit told a conference in 2002:

She is of mixed Bangladeshi and English descent, her father was Dr Tabarek Hossain ( 1935 – 2002 ), originally from Bangladesh, who migrated to Britain in the 1960s, was a psychiatrist who specialised in alcoholism, he set up the Kirklees Alcohol Advisory Service in 1973 at the town centre, and was the founder and president of Concern For Mental Health in West Yorkshire.

Under pressure from British American Tobacco, Pollock resigned on the eve of the launch of the 2002 car and was replaced as team principal by David Richards.

Imperial Tobacco Group had been the licensee of the worldwide Davidoff cigarette trademark since its acquisition of Reemtsma in 2002.

In 2002 DkIT took possession of the adjoining PJ Carroll Tobacco Factory.

In April 2002 Ed Fagan filed a class action lawsuit against 18 companies, including FleetBoston, CSX Corporation, Aetna, Union Pacific Railroad, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Lehman Brothers, accusing the companies to have " unjustly enriched ( themselves ) through profits earned either directly or indirectly from the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery between 1619 and 1865, as well as post-Emancipation slavery through the 1960s ".

Scruton came to public attention in 2002 when it was reported he had been receiving a fee from Japan Tobacco International ( JTI ), and had written about tobacco issues without declaring an interest.

For example, in 2001 and 2002, The United States Smokeless Tobacco Company ran advertisements for its Rooster brand in Rolling Stone and Sports Illustrated respectively.

* 2002 Tobacco free sports

In 2002 Imperial Tobacco closed Rizla +' s historic factory at Mazères-sur-Salat near Saint-Gaudens ( south of France ).

In August 2002, Surya Tobacco became a subsidiary of ITC Limited and its name was changed to Surya Nepal Private Limited ( Surya Nepal ).

Manuel Rivera-Ortiz: Tobacco Harvesting, Valle de Viñales, Cuba 2002 Since the late 1990s, an increased interest in documentary photography and its longer term perspective can be observed.

* In 1942, CBC created the Tobacco Radio Network, a farm news radio service which was discontinued in 2002.

In 2002, Selleck donated the rifle he used in Quigley Down Under ( a custom 13-pound, single-shot, 1874 Sharps Rifle, with a 34-inch barrel ), along with six other firearms from his other films, to the National Rifle Association, as part of the NRA's exhibit " Real Guns of Reel Heroes " at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia.

These lawsuit include ; Lomont v. O ' Neill 2002 9th circuit, Westfall v. Miller 1996 5th circuit, and Steele v. National Firearms Branch 1985 11th circuit.

A semi-automatic Tavor carbine was first seen at the 2002 SHOT Show, when agreements were announced between IMI and the Barrett Firearms Company to manufacture the Tavor in both its military and civilian variants in the United States.

* Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 127-The Firearms ( Amendment ) Act 1988 ( Firearms Consultative Committee ) Order 2002

The Combined Firearms Council of Victoria was created in late 2002 and has been very active in the debate in Victoria.

In 2002 Selleck donated the rifle, along with six other firearms from his other films, to the National Rifle Association, as part of the NRA's exhibit " Real Guns of Reel Heroes " at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia.