On November 10, 2003, Wright was signed as a free agent from the Texans practice squad by the Indianapolis Colts.

* Houston Texans – Introduced a red alternate in 2003.

He was selected by the Chicago Bears in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft, and has also played professionally for the NFL's Houston Texans.

He was drafted by the Houston Texans in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft.

Peek was selected by the Houston Texans in the third round ( 67th overall ) in the 2003 NFL Draft.

After starting out 4 – 12 ( 2002 ) and 5 – 11 ( 2003 ) in his first two seasons in Houston, the Texans posted a 7 – 9 mark in 2004.

He was drafted by the Houston Texans in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL Draft.

He was drafted by the Texans third overall in the 2003 NFL Draft.

The Houston Texans chose Johnson with the 3rd overall pick of the 2003 NFL Draft.

Suggs was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens 10th overall in the 2003 NFL Draft, becoming one of the youngest defensive players at only 20 years old until defensive tackle Amobi Okoye was drafted by the Houston Texans at age 19 in 2007.

At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan in 2003, Aston Martin introduced the AMV8 Vantage concept car.

Also introduced in 2003 was the DB9 coupé, which replaced the ten-year-old DB7.

To counteract this, a new feature introduced with the 2003 relaunch was a ' breaking news sting ': a globe shown briefly onscreen to direct a viewer's attention to the breaking news.

In 2003, the All Japan Kendo Federation ( AJKF ) introduced a set of basic exercises using a bokuto called Bokuto Ni Yoru Kendo Kihon-waza Keiko-ho.

Under the doctrine introduced by the 2003 Defense Policy Guidelines, Germany continues to give priority to the transatlantic partnership with the United States through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Provision for Local Loop Unbundling was introduced in Gibraltar, under the 2006 Communications Act, similar to the UK's 2003 Communications Act.

Windows Server 2008 builds on the technological and security advances first introduced with Windows Vista, and is significantly more modular than its predecessor, Windows Server 2003.

Also in 2003, Berber-language instruction was introduced in primary schools, prior to introducing it at all educational levels.

In 1994 and 2003, when the ESRB and PEGI ( respectively ) video game ratings systems were introduced, Nintendo chose to abolish most of these policies in favor of consumers making their own choices about the content of the games they played.

In November 2002, mobile phones were introduced to North Korea and by November 2003, 20, 000 North Koreans had bought mobile phones.

In July 2003 the government introduced a Deregulation Policy for the Telecommunication Sector, which allowed and encouraged foreign companies to invest in the Pakistani telecommunications market.

The Boxster was Porsche's biggest volume seller from its introduction in 1996 until the company introduced the Cayenne sport utility vehicle in 2003.

From 1990 to 2003 HP manufactured the HP-48 series of graphing RPN calculators and in 2006 introduced the HP-50g with a 131x80 LCD and a 75 MHz ARM CPU that emulates the Saturn CPU of the HP-48 series.

ADSL was introduced in Sri Lanka in 2003 by Sri Lanka Telecom.

In 2003, following an international human rights ruling, the provincial Conservative government gradually introduced a tax credit over 5 years, ( when it would have been fully implemented it would have been worth up to 50 % of tuition to a maximum of $ 3, 500 at any independent school in Ontario ) in order to meet the human rights norms and expand funded choice to all interested parents.

In 2003, supposedly as an April Fool's joke, the Georgia House introduced a bill making it a "... misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature " to sell iced tea in a restaurant that did not also offer sweet iced tea on the menu.

This nomenclature was originally introduced by Krzysztof Szczypiorski in 2003.

The second generation was introduced in 2003, based on the new Impreza platform, featuring several fine-tune improvements over the past model.

The Titans introduced an alternate jersey in 2003 that is light " Titans Blue " with navy outside shoulders and sleeves.

The Oyster card is a contactless smart card system introduced for the public in 2003, which can be used to pay individual fares ( pay as you go ) or to carry various Travelcards and other passes.

Since the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, the US Marine Corps has introduced a thermobaric ' Novel Explosive ' ( SMAW-NE ) round for the Mk 153 SMAW rocket launcher.

The AGM-114N Hellfire Metal Augmented Charge introduced in 2003 in Iraq contains a thermobaric explosive fill, using fluoridated aluminium layered between the charge casing and a PBXN-112 explosive mixture.

In 2003, Mazda introduced the Renesis engine with the RX-8.

On 15 October 2003, the Intelligence Services Amendment Bill 2003 was introduced into Parliament by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, as an amendment to the original Intelligence Services Act 2001 ( ISA ).

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

London in 2003 and extended in 2007 ( see London congestion charge ); Stockholm in 2006, as seven month trial, and then on a permanent basis since August 2007 ( see Stockholm congestion tax ); and since January 2008, Milan introduced a traffic charge scheme as a one-year trial, called Ecopass, that exempts higher emission standard vehicles ( Euro IV ) and other alternative fuel vehicles.

One product of that contentious debate was the creation of an alternative syndication format, Atom, that began in June 2003.

Newbury Academy is a private alternative high school for students in grades 9-12 that was founded in Teaneck, New Jersey in 2001 and moved to Dumont in 2003.

On 25 July 2003, cinemas started showing the alternative ending after the film's credits.

A SAE paper from 2003 deals with a high-speed, small-displacement sleeve-valve engine, calculated, but not experimentally shown, to have a higher SFC than the poppet-valve alternative, a year-2009 work compares two different side-opening intake strategies for sleeve-valve engines.

Initially only available as a separate download for Mac OS X v10. 2, it was included with the Mac OS X v10. 3 release on October 24, 2003 as the default browser, with Internet Explorer for Mac included only as an alternative browser.

" Volvo-Driving Soccer Mom " is a song by the alternative rock band Everclear, from their album Slow Motion Daydream ( 2003 ).

Signing to EMI in 2003 with the EP Five Tracks and the album HoboSapiens, Cale again returned as a regular recording artist, this time with music influenced by modern electronica and alternative rock.

In late summer 2003, a compilation album titled Giving the Devil His Due was released which included several demo tracks submitted by the band prior to their signing with Roadrunner Records in 1997, along with several alternative studio recordings and remixes of various tracks from their previous albums.

He has performed in many audio plays, starring in the Doctor Who " Unbound " play Sympathy for the Devil ( 2003 ) as an alternative version of the Doctor, and in a series of plays based on ITV's Sapphire & Steel as Steel, both for Big Finish Productions.

Consequent to debate about economic globalization, the comparative analysis of civilisations, and the post-colonial perspective of " alternative modernities ," Shmuel Eisenstadt introduced the concept of " multiple modernities " ( 2003 ; see also Delanty 2007 ).

In the 2003 edition of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn wrote about alternative media, community newspapers and the creation of street newspapers trying the break the corporate control of information.

In May 2003, the long-running alternative music show 120 Minutes, which started on MTV in 1986 and moved to MTV2 at the end of 2000, came to an end with a final episode, featuring host Jim Shearer interviewing former hosts Matt Pinfield and Dave Kendall.

An ' alternative spring break ' program started in 2003 to help restore Philmont Scout Ranch after devastating forest fires.

A Rapid Application Development IDE, it is an alternative to Microsoft's Visual Studio. NET 2003.

The music video for the 2003 single " Move Your Feet " by Danish alternative dance duo Junior Senior was created entirely using the Amiga version of Deluxe Paint by the art collective Shynola.

The Merrill Lynch / Cap Gemini Ernst & Young World Wealth Report 2003, based on 2002 data, showed high net worth individuals, as defined in the report, to have 10 % of their financial assets in alternative investments.

In the 2000s, the term " alternative archaeology " began to be instead applied by academics like Tim Sebastion ( 2001 ), Robert J. Wallis ( 2003 ), Cornelius Holtorf ( 2006 ), and Gabriel Moshenka ( 2008 ).

There were market-driven requests for Nissan to introduce the very successful Nissan Skyline, Nissan Laurel, or the newly created Nissan Cefiro as an alternative to the Lexus ES or the Legend, but Nissan hesitated until 2003 when the Skyline finally arrived in North America as the Infiniti G.

The Labor Caucus ( parliamentary Labor Party ) re-elected Crean in June 2003, not convinced that Beazley offered a better alternative.

In season six ( 2003 – 2004 ), Piper again clings to goddess powers when she finds temporarily becoming a valkyrie a better alternative than living with the pain of Leo leaving her.

The Center for American Progress was created in 2003 as a left-leaning alternative to think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute.

During the campaign of the election of 2003, the DPJ called the election as the choice of the government between the ruling LDP-bloc and the DPJ, with Kan being presented as the alternative candidate to then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.