As of 2002, the city of Seattle had paid over $ 200, 000 in settlements of lawsuits filed against the Seattle Police Department for assault and wrongful arrest, with a class action lawsuit still pending.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ), Bayonne is the first city recolonized by the Muslims after the total depopulation of Europe by the Black Death.

In Section 10 ( 7 ) continues the " use of the description city in relation to Kilkenny, to the extent that that description was used before ( January 1, 2002 ) and is not otherwise inconsistent with this Act.

After 2002, the new geo-political dynamics and its subsequent business opportunities, rapid urban population growth and emergence of high unemployment, triggered the planning of urban extension towards the immediate north of Kabul, in the form of a new city.

In November 2002 the city was the place of birth of the first edition of the European Social Forum.

Other games which feature graffiti include Bomb the World ( 2004 ), an online graffiti simulation created by graffiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide, and Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002 ), in which the hero, Mario must clean the city of graffiti left by the villain, Bowser Jr. in a plotline which evokes the successes of the Anti-Graffiti Task Force of New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ( a manifestation of " broken window theory ") or those of the " Graffiti Blasters " of Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Public and private schools in the city have reopened since 2002 after they were shut down or destroyed during fighting in the 1980s to the late 1990s.

After 2002, the new geo-political dynamics and its subsequent business opportunities, rapid urban population growth and emergence of high unemployment, triggered the planning of urban extension towards the immediate north of Kabul, in the form of a new city.

Petroleum ( found in nearby off-shore deposits ) is refined in the city, although this facility was repeatedly damaged during the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ).

The city also has a thriving building industry, an effect of the nationwide economic boom experienced since 2002, when political stability returned with the end of the civil war.

The city slowly came under the control of the Karzai administration after 2002, which is led by President Hamid Karzai.

Since 2002, most of the campus and surrounding city is covered by a wireless network.

* 2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.

In 2002, the city of Milan had no sewage treatment plant.

The political independence of suburban municipalities from the nearby city is a sensitive political issue, since provincial governments have the power to rewrite municipal boundaries at will, and they have often dictated mergers without input from residents ( recently in Nova Scotia in 1996, Ontario in 1997 and Quebec in 2002 ).

From 2002 to 2006 the entire Island of Montreal was merged into one city, but this policy was partly reversed when a different party captured the provincial government.

* United States, San Francisco: In November 2002, before it was widely available, the city of San Francisco banned the Segway PT from sidewalks citing safety concerns.

According to the last official count from 2002, Skopje has a population of 506, 926 inhabitants ; according to two unofficial estimates for more recent period, the city has a population of 668, 518 or 491, 000 inhabitants.

The establishment of the Iran-US Claims Tribunal ( 1981 ), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( 1993 ) and the International Criminal Court ( 2002 ) in the city further consolidated the role of The Hague as a center for international legal arbitration.

However, there exist many specially arranged city distributions which make the NN algorithm give the worst route ( Gutin, Yeo, and Zverovich, 2002 ).

Thousands of soldiers died in the city during the retreat ; the mass graves were uncovered in 2002.

According to provisional data from 2011 census, 1, 677, 985 inhabitants live within the city limits, a decrease from the figure recorded at the 2002 census.

As per provisional data from 2011 census, 1, 677, 985 inhabitants live within the city limits, a decrease from the figure recorded at the 2002 census.

From 19 January 2002 to November 2004, the opera company was transferred to the new Teatro degli Arcimboldi, built in the Pirelli-Bicocca industrial area 4. 5 miles from the city centre.

Ko remains the second youngest individual gold medalist after Tara Lipinski in the history of the Olympic Winter Games, winning gold in women's 1500 m event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt lake city, United States, at 15 years and 277 days old.

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.