However, in 2003, a joint group of Russian and American historians announced their view that Stalin had ingested flavorless warfarin, a powerful rat poison that inhibits coagulation of the blood and which predisposes the victim to hemorrhagic stroke ( cerebral hemorrhage ).

Chris Hollow, writing for the Sunday Age ( Melbourne, Australia ) in 2003, said, " The music on ' Forever Changes ' is powerful, exotic, surreal, occasionally demented and suffused with the unmistakable and heady scent of 1967 California.

Introduced in 2003, the Smith & Wesson Model 500 is one of the most powerful revolvers, utilizing the. 500 S & W Magnum cartridge.

The most powerful flare observed by satellite instrumentation began on 4 November 2003 at 19: 29 UTC, and saturated instruments for 11 minutes.

* Warmachine ( Privateer Press, 2003 )-A steampunk-inspired miniatures game featuring steam-powered robots fighting under the direction of powerful wizards.

* 2003: Photographic staff of the Rocky Mountain News, " for its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires.

* The most powerful flare ever recorded, on November 4, 2003, estimated at between X40 and X45

A few years earlier, in 2003, Douglas hosted a " powerful film " on child soldiers and the impact of combat on children in countries such as Sierra Leone.

Time Magazine identified Dr. Shiva as an environmental “ hero ” in 2003, and Asia Week has called her one of the five most powerful communicators of Asia.

The office of Pike County Judge Executive is one of Kentucky's most powerful local offices and served as a launching pad for the governorship of Paul E. Patton ( 1995 – 2003 ).

The most powerful tornado of the 2003 South Dakota tornado outbreak was located around Centerville and was rated an F-4 on the Fujita scale.

The Fedayeen had the most powerful impact on the 2003 war, resisting the American invasion.

During the 2003 America's Cup Challenger Series between Oracle BMW Racing and Alinghi, for example, the Alinghi boat was heavier but more powerful and favored on higher points of sail downwind.

Soon after taking office in May 2003, Kirchner surprised some Argentinians by standing down powerful military and police officials.

Although a test-bed device was scheduled to launch on a 2003 Space Shuttle, numerous international agreements, forbidding the testing of powerful lasers in orbit, caused the program to be limited to using the laser as a measurement device.

“ Those merits reside in a ferocious vision, a powerful narrative, an accumulation of indelible images, and the unforgettable way in which a small child's voice is deployed in an unfeeling adult world, during the war and thereafter ” ( Zeitlin, 2003, p. 177, see also Suleiman, 2006, p. 170 ).

System X ran at 12. 25 Teraflops, ( 20. 24 peak ), and was ranked # 3 on November 16, 2003 and # 280 in the July 2008 edition of the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers.

* 2003: Cornelia Grumman, Chicago Tribune, " for her powerful, freshly challenging editorials on reform of the death penalty.

Hurricane Fabian was a powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that hit Bermuda in early September during the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season.

Commentators cite this tenacity as the main factor allowing the Oxford crew to upset the much bigger, more powerful and more experienced 2003 Cambridge boat.

The 2003 models replaced the 7. 3 L International diesel with a more powerful 6. 0 L International diesel.

Most buyers ordered the V6 or V8 engines, which were considerably more powerful and, in the case of the V6, which was made standard for 2003, nearly as fuel-efficient with a manual transmission.

* December 3 – The Colombian government extradites Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, one of the most powerful drug dealers in the world, arrested in 1995 and 2003, to the United States.

In 2001, she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by Ladies ' Home Journal, and The Hollywood Reporter named her fourth on its Power 100 list in 2003.

2, 860 km² ( 2003 est.

The necessity to promote a healthier ecosystem for the people through the rehabilitation and regreening of the environment was stressed in Proclamation No. 643 that amended Proclamation No. 396 of June 2, 2003.

By 2003 in the US, an estimated 3. 21 million patients received antipsychotics, worth an estimated $ 2. 82 billion.

When fully implemented, CAIR will reduce SO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions in 28 eastern states and the District of Columbia by over 70 percent and NOx emissions by over 60 percent from 2003 levels.

2, 500 km ( use limited by location on perimeter of country and by shallowness ) ( 2003 )

* Internet Service Providers: 2 ( 2003 ), Brunet ( part of Jabatan Telekom Brunei ) and Simpurnet of DSTCom

At the same time annual inflation in the economy was variable and during the last five years ( 2003 – 2007 ) has seen a low of 2. 3 % and high of 7. 3 %.

* Richard J. Coggins, 1 and 2 Chronicles in Dunn, James D. G., Rogerson, John William ( eds ), " Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible " ( Eerdmans, 2003 )

Average rolling-stock age — a rough indicator of passenger comfort — fell slightly from the third quarter of 2001 – 2 to the third quarter of 2003 – 4, from 20. 7 years old to 19. 3 years old.

Roundwood removals were estimated at 2. 8 million cu m ( 99. 7 million cu ft ) in 2003.

Communaute Financiere Africaine francs ( XAF ) per US dollar-481. 8 ( 2007 ), 522. 59 ( 2006 ), 527. 47 ( 2005 ), 528. 29 ( 2004 ), 581. 2 ( 2003

The American Embassy in Bangui again temporarily suspended operations on November 2, 2002 in response to security concerns raised by the October 2002 launch of François Bozizé's 2003 military coup.

Its 2002 / 2003 / 2004 funding includes around $ 10 million for economic development, up to $ 5 million for the development of democratic institutions, about $ 5 million for the return of population affected by war and between 2 and 3 million dollars for the " mitigation of adverse social conditions and trends ".

Charles most notably presented the cult TV hit Robot Wars on BBC2 ( 1998 – 2003 ) and Channel 5 ( 2003 – 2004 ), from series 2 until its conclusion at series 7, which included two Extreme series and numerous ' specials '.

President Uribe has vowed to pave more than 2, 500 kilometers of roads during his administration, and about 5, 000 kilometers of new secondary roads were being built in the 2003 – 6 period.

" The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Emergence of South Carolina's State Park System, 1933-1942 ," South Carolina Historical Magazine Volume: 104 # 2 2003, pp 101 +.

Further, another Dravidian linguist Bhadriraju Krishnamurti in his book Dravidian Languages ( Krishnamurti 2003: p. 2, footnote 2 ) states,

Inflation has been kept low ( only 1 percent in 2004, compared with 2. 2 percent in 2003 ), due to the fixed peg of the Djibouti franc to the US dollar.

New York Times, 2 March 2003, Vol.

* Sci. Nonlinear FAQ 2. 0 ( Sept 2003 ) provides definitions, explanations and resources related to nonlinear science

A large plume of Saharan Desert dust ( light brownish pixels ) blown across Libya and Egypt northward over the Mediterranean Sea toward the Middle East, on February 2, 2003.

The Economy of Eritrea has experienced modest growth in recent years, indicated by an improvement in Gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 2004 of 2. 5 % over 2003.