* 2003 – Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.

* 2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500, 000 people living in south east England and brings 60 % of London's underground rail network to a halt.

In March 2003 Bozizé took power through a coup d ’ état.

The forces assisting Bozizé in seizing the power in 2003 were not paid what they were promised and started looting, terrorising and killing ordinary citizens.

Before seizing power in 2003, Bozizé's rebel group was equipped and trained in Chad.

The CPC's " fourth generation " of leadership under Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, after taking power in 2003, attempted reversing such a trend by bringing forth an integrated ideology that tackled both social and economic concerns.

The first results from this mission, disclosed in 2003, were detailed measurements of the angular power spectrum to below degree scales, tightly constraining various cosmological parameters.

But follow-up studies have ( depending on who was summarizing the results ) failed to replicate the phenomenon or produced mixed results ( Bem & others, 2001 ; Milton & Wiseman, 2002 ; Storm, 2000, 2003 ). One skeptic, magician James Randi, has a longstanding offer — now U. S. $ 1 million —“ to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions ” ( Randi, 1999 ).

He was a key factor to the Marlins ' 2003 World Series run and the ballclub's primary power hitter during his tenure, hitting 138 home runs and driving in 523 in five seasons.

In the UK, city councils have the power to take action against the owner of any property that has been defaced under the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 ( as amended by the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 ) or, in certain cases, the Highways Act.

In July 2003, the Jueves Negro demonstrations rocked the capital, forcing the closing of the US embassy and the UN mission, as supporters of Ríos Montt called for his return to power.

Constitutional change in Liechtenstein in 2003 gave its head of state, the Prince, constitutional powers that included a veto over legislation and power to dismiss the cabinet.

purchasing power parity: $ 2. 113 billion ( 2003 est.

purchasing power parity: $ 28, 500 ( 2003 est.

October 14, 2003, Blah handed power to Charles Gyude Bryant.

In early 2003, a fight for power emerged between President Rene Harris and former President Bernard Dowiyogo.

* 2003 – Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir's 22 years in power.

" This power has twice been granted — by the Eighth Amendment in 1985 and by the Seventeenth Amendment in 2003 — and has twice been revoked — by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1997 and by the Eighteenth Amendment in 2010.

GDP: purchasing power parity $ 48. 3 million, supplemented by annual payments from France of about $ 60 million ( 2003 estimate )

The army seized power for one week in July 2003, complaining of corruption and that forthcoming oil revenues would not be divided fairly.

A series of internationally funded reforms since late 2003 have sought to reduce the power of the army and to subordinate it to the civilian authorities. Moves have been in progress in recent years, with foreign assistance, to improve the capabilities of the armed forces and security forces, and to enhance national security.

On May 18, 2003, two referenda regarding the future of nuclear power in Switzerland were held.

Since coming to power, a disproportionate number of leading positions have been awarded to members of the Alawi sect in a move akin to Saddam Hussein's Ba ' ath Party governance in neighbouring Iraq between 1968 and 2003 when persons from Saddam's home town of Tikrit were appointed in prominent roles.

purchasing power parity-$ 580 million ( 2003 est.

Thomas ( 2003 ) argues that Pitt's power was based not on his family connections but his extraordinary parliamentary skills by which he dominated the House of Commons.

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.

The county's eastern edge, along the state line, was also the epicenter of a strong earthquake on April 29, 2003, measuring 4. 6 on the Richter scale.

A huge water-bottling facility was established by Arrowhead Mountain Springwater ( in partnership with the Morongo Band of Mission Indians ) on the eastern edge on Cabazon in 2003.

File: Llano Estacado San Jon Hill Roadcut 2003. jpg | Road cut south of San Jon on New Mexico State Highway 469 as it crosses the caprock escarpment at the northern edge of the Llano Estacado.

In 2003, the Vertigo imprint celebrated " Ten years on the edge " by branding their books cover-dated April 2003 to February 2004 ( i. e. released between February and December 2003 )-Vertigo's Tenth Anniversary-with the legend Vertigo X.

The leading edge of Trek ’ s design and engineering efforts, ACG is perhaps best known for a number of products introduced and used by Lance Armstrong during his historic Tour de France wins, including the original Trek Madone ( 2003 )— named for the Col de la Madone, a 12K climb that starts in the French town of Menton and used by Armstrong to test his fitness — and TTX time trial bike ( 2005 ).

On 31 May 2003, a team of UK researchers held a mass experiment where they exposed some 700 people to music laced with soft 17 Hz sine waves played at a level described as " near the edge of hearing ", produced by an extra-long-stroke subwoofer mounted two-thirds of the way from the end of a seven-meter-long plastic sewer pipe.

* On December 14, 2003, Owens scored a touchdown in a loss at Cincinnati, ran to a snow pile at the edge of the field, and threw snow at the fans.

The UK, the German and the 2003 U. S. version of the series take place in Australia, at a permanently built up camp at the edge of a sub-tropical rain forest that extends from Numinbah Nature Reserve and Springbrook National Park ( camp coordinates: ).

Late in 2003, the Conservancy secured state funds to purchase Ahmanson Ranch as well, creating the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve, a huge green belt on the western edge of West Hills and Woodland Hills.

over the alignment of the edge with the gradient field ( Kimmel and Bruckstein 2003 ).

* Kimmel, Ron and Bruckstein, Alfred M. " On regularized Laplacian zero crossings and other optimal edge integrators ", International Journal of Computer Vision, 53 ( 3 ): 225-243, 2003.

* Courtesy of PRWatch at GuerrillaNews. com, 3 October 2003: "' Qorvis Communications is representing Seisint Inc., the Boca Raton-based database company, that is home to the Matrix -- Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange -- which has privacy advocates on edge ,' O ' Dwyer's PR Reports.

The original route of the tram included Spencer Street as the western edge until January 2003, when the route was extended west into Docklands.

Writing for Fannie Mae, Lang and Lefurgy ( 2003 ) note that edge cities may turn out to have been only a 20th-century phenomenon because of their limitations.

This move towards the edge was further supported by extending the Juniper M-series technology with M40e ( 2002 ) and M7i / M10i ( 2003 ) systems, featuring edge-specific packaging for proven M-series chipset.

That point wasn't lost on Lurgan and in 2003 they locked the gates on their town centre ground and relocated to share Oxford United's ground on the edge of Lurgan at Knockramer Park, which offered better facilities for all.

Petra returned to its roots with a hard rock album in 2003, while the 2010 Classic Petra reunion was billed as an effort to re-record some of the band's early 1980s hits " with a modern edge.

In 2003, world-renowned virologist Robert G. Webster published an article titled " The world is teetering on the edge of a pandemic that could kill a large fraction of the human population " in American Scientist.

( Special issue " Optics in 2003 ") summarizes 29 of " the most exciting research to emerge in the last 12 months " of cutting edge research.

In Fall 2003, Xiao launched China Digital Times to explore how to apply cutting edge technologies to aggregate, organize, and recommend online information from and about China.

He represented the large Cumberland Ward, located at the eastern edge of the city since 2003.