* 2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60, 000 years, passing distant.

* 2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.

In 2003, it changed its name to reflect its wider focus in statewide preservation issues.

In the year 2003, the canton of Aargau celebrated its 200th anniversary.

The club was reformed three years later and then worked its way through the non-league divisions to reach the Nationwide Conference in 2003.

As its member, Bulgaria sent a total of 485 soldiers to Iraq ( 2003 – 2008 ) as a participant in the Iraq War, and currently maintains a 608-strong force in Afghanistan as part of ISAF.

On 1 January 2007, the municipality lost its short-lived ( 2003 until 2006 ) county privileges and became part of Region Hovedstaden ( i. e. the Copenhagen Capital Region ).

According to a 2003 study undertaken by the International Diabetes Federation ( IDF ) on the access to and availability of insulin in its member countries, synthetic ' human ' insulin is considerably more expensive in most countries where both synthetic ' human ' and animal insulin are commercially available: e. g. within European countries the average price of synthetic ' human ' insulin was twice as high as the price of pork insulin.

In 2003, Mitchell set up a web site on which he posted most all of the publications of Victor T. Houteff, Ben and Lois Roden, and his own new studies, including a detailed presentation of what he calls The Warfare of Vernon Howell ( a. k. a. David Koresh ) and others against the Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists, in which he gives a detailed and documented overview of the controversy regarding the church and its adversaries.

Chile unilaterally lowered its across-the-board import tariff for all countries with which it does not have a trade agreement to 6 % in 2003.

By 2003, the Booby colonies on Clipperton boasted 25, 000 Brown Boobies and 112, 000 Masked Boobies, making the atoll the world's second-largest Brown Booby colony, and its largest Masked Booby colony.

In April 2011, Limehouse Library having closed in 2003, the Attlee statue was unveiled in its new home at Queen Mary University of London.

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 '.

The company's effort to regain its footing is the subject of Tom Barbash's 2003 book On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9 / 11: A Story of Loss and Renewal.

In 2003 he performed in Bob Balaban-directed Off-Broadway dramatic stage play The Exonerated in New York during its 18 – 23 March, week run.

On March 15, 2004, Amiga, Inc. announced that on April 23, 2003 it had transferred its rights over past and future versions of the Amiga OS ( but not over other intellectual property ) to Itec, LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc., a Delaware company.

On August 19, 2003, the U. S. SEC charged Deutsche Bank with failing to disclose a material conflict of interest in its voting of client proxies for the merger and imposed a civil penalty of $ 750, 000.

In recent years, Djibouti has seen significant improvement in macroeconomic stability, with its annual gross domestic product improving at an average of over 3 percent since 2003.

In the United Kingdom the term often retains its positive sense as a reference to natural selection, and for example Richard Dawkins wrote in his collection of essays A Devil's Chaplain, published in 2003, that as a scientist he is a Darwinist.

Reality ( 2003 ) followed, and its accompanying world tour, the A Reality Tour, with an estimated attendance of 722, 000, grossed more than any other in 2004.

In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors.

An 88-megawatt electricity plant funded by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Abu Dhabi was completed just south of Massawa in 2003, its completion delayed nearly three years by the war with Ethiopia.

A 2003 household survey conducted by the National Statistical Survey found that the real unemployment rate is about 33 percent.

Joe Walsh, famed musician who was part of the United States rock band the Eagles, sang the National Anthem of Chile at a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball game in 2003.

In 2003 Lance Milbrand stayed on the island for 41 days on a National Geographic Society expedition, recording his adventure in video, photos, and a written diary ( see links below ).

* Government forces, the National Army ( FANCI ), also called loyalists, formed and equipped essentially since 2003

In 2003 the U. S. National Institute for Standards and Technology, NIST, proposed that 80-bit keys should be phased out by 2015.

In June 2003, the government liquidated the state-owned and heavily indebted National Telecommunications Company ( Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones — Telecom ) and replaced it with Colombia Telecomunicaciones ( Colombia Telecom ).

However, as attendance began to dwindle — the Rockies fell to just sixth in the National League in attendance in 2002, and ninth in 2003 and 2004 — the club could no longer afford to build through big-name free agents.

In 2003, the National Council for Spirit Safety and Education ( NCSSE ) was formed to offer safety training for youth, school, all star and college coaches.

During the national census in 2003 the following censuses were conducted at the same time: National Population and Housing Census and National Agricultural Census.

* Campbell, Karlyn K., Three Tall Women: Radical Challenges to Criticism, Pedagogy, and Theory, The Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture National Communication Association November 2001 Boston: Pearson Education Inc, 2003.

* Best Documentary of the Year awards for The Fog of War ( 2003 ): the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics, and the Washington D. C. Area Film Critics.

Philosophy Hall, the Columbia building where Armstrong developed FM, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2003 in recognition of that fact.

In 2003, at a gathering for the Agency of Cultural Affairs, twelve policies were proposed in a written report to allow public-made films to be promoted and shown at the Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art.

The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

* In 2003, Douglass Place, the rental housing units that Douglass built in Baltimore in 1892 for blacks, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Marlins have the distinction of winning a World Series championship every year they qualified for the postseason, doing so in 1997 and 2003 — both times as the National League wild card team.

Torborg's successor, 72-year-old Jack McKeon, improbably led them to the National League's wild card berth in the playoffs ; they defeated the New York Yankees four games to two in the 2003 World Series.

* Dontrelle Willis ( 2003 – 2007 ) — The " D-Train " was named the National League Rookie of the Year in 2003 and showcased his remarkable ( for a pitcher ) hitting ability by going 3-for-3 with a triple while scoring a run during Game 4 of the 2003 National League Division Series, which the Marlins won 7 – 6 over the San Francisco Giants to advance to the NL Championship Series.

* Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh, meta-level reasoning for guiding inductive proof, proof planning and recipient of 2007 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, Herbrand Award, and 2003 Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award.

* Froehle, Bryan ; Gautier, Mary, Global Catholicism, Portrait of a World Church, Orbis books ; Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University ( 2003 ) ISBN = 1-57075-375-X

" Elizabeth I and the verdicts of history ," Historical Research, Nov 2003, Vol.

Below are the names of the universities and some of the important schools including newly opened Hannover Medical Research School in 2003 for attracting the students from biology background from around the world.

* 2003 First ever President of Leukaemia Research, the UK's leading blood cancer charity.

Research conducted in 2003 at Emory University, Georgia, USA, involving Capuchin Monkeys demonstrated that other cooperative animals also possess such a sense and that " inequity aversion may not be uniquely human " indicating that ideas of fairness and justice may be instinctual in nature.

The British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, amalgamated within the Council for British Research in the Levant ( CBRL ) in 1998, was officially renamed the Kenyon Institute on 10 July 2003 in honour of Kathleen Kenyon.

* organized a month-long multi-national research expedition ( known as Expedition One ) to the Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert in 2003

In May 2003, a number of newspapers named Freddie Scappaticci as the alleged identity of the British Force Research Unit's most senior informer within the IRA, code-named Stakeknife, who is thought to have been head of the IRA's internal security force, charged with rooting out and executing informers.

In 2003 after the breakup of Columbia during re-entry, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board conducted tests at Southwest Research Institute, which used an air gun to shoot foam blocks of similar size, mass and speed to that which struck Columbia at a test structure which mechanically replicated the orbiter wing leading edge.

Victoria had the fourth highest average research grade in the New Zealand Government's Performance-Based Research Fund exercise in 2006, having been ranked 3rd in 2003.

In January 2003, the European host was transferred from INRIA to the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics ( ERCIM ), an organization that represents European national computer science laboratories.

This myth was first debunked by the Acoustics Research Centre at the University of Salford in 2003 as part of the British Association's Festival of Science.

* Cainozoic Research, 2 ( 1-2 ): 163-170, 2003: regarding the raising of ranks.

Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research Routledge, 2003.

His book expands upon and documents an original four part article published in 2003 ( Annals of Improbable Research ( AIR )) on the controversy: Why Everything You Know About Murphy's Law is Wrong.

# Sandy Serva, iLanguage Translations for Global Research, January 2003, Vol.

The 2002 and 2003 announcements of the Women's Health Initiative of the American National Institute of Health and The Million Women Study of the UK Cancer Research and National Health Service collaboration respectively, that HRT treatment coincides with an increased incidence of breast cancer, heart attacks and strokes, lead to a sharp decline in HRT prescription throughout the world, which was followed by a decrease in breast cancer incidence.

In 2003 the International Agency for Research on Cancer ( IARC ) reached the conclusion that there is sufficient evidence that the habit of chewing betel quid, with or without tobacco, is carcinogenic to humans.

A 2003 Australian study by Monash University Accident Research Centre found that ABS:

* WashingtonPost. com-' Poindexter to Leave Pentagon Research Job: Project to Create Futures Market on Events in Middle East Caused Controversy ', Bradley Graham, Washington Post ( August 1, 2003 )

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