While the definitive studies are lacking, the former view received support from a 2004 meta-analysis of 13 small studies.

However, in fall 2004, three former Costa Rican presidents ( Jose Maria Figueres, Miguel Angel Rodríguez, and Rafael Angel Calderon ) were investigated on corruption charges related to the issuance of government contracts.

The Quaternary Period was officially recognized by the International Commission on Stratigraphy in June 2009, and the former Tertiary Period was officially disused in 2004.

Several international financial institutions have praised the economic reforms introduced by former president Álvaro Uribe ( elected 7 August 2002 ), which include measures designed to reduce the public-sector deficit below 2. 5 % of GDP in 2004.

Al Sharpton, former Pentecostal minister, now a Baptist minister and Civil rights leader, during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 said that asking whether gays or lesbians should be able to get married was insulting: " That's like saying you give blacks, or whites, or Latinos the right to shack up – but not get married [...] It's like asking ' do I support black marriage or white marriage '...

The former site of Commodore's operational headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania, now houses the headquarters and broadcast studios of leading cable retailer QVC, Inc. ( On November 26, 2004, QVC became the first retailer to sell the DTV, a " C64 in a joystick " designed by Jeri Ellsworth.

Only the former International Race of Champions actually retired the No. 3, which they did in a rule change effective in 2004.

** DONG Cup, a former name of the Danish Cup trophy, sponsored by the oil company from 2000 to 2004

A bare majority of Congress, acting in a special session called by former President Lucio Gutiérrez in December, 2004, ousted 27 of the 31 justices and replaced them with new members chosen by Congress, notwithstanding the lack of any provisions permitting impeachment of Supreme Court justices by Congress and the specific provisions giving the Court the power to select new members.

Following the elections in 2004, the former MEPs of the group took MEPs from the new member countries on board and together, they registered the new group Independence and Democracy ( IND / DEM ).

In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

His final film to date was Welcome to Mooseport ( 2004 ), a comedy with Ray Romano, in which Hackman portrayed a former President of the United States.

In the March 2004 elections, PASOK was defeated by New Democracy, led by Kostas Karamanlis, the nephew of the former President.

Roger Clemens, who had retired after the season with the New York Yankees, agreed to join former teammate Pettitte on the Astros for 2004.

* The USI Screaming Eagles, led by former Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl, won the 1995 Division II National Championship and were runners-up in 1994 and 2004.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and more recently, the 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union, the main waves of migration came from the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe ( especially Romania, Albania, Ukraine and Poland ).

On July 23, 2004, he was married in a handfasting ceremony to a former vice-president of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, Phaedra Heyman Bonewits.

Aerial approach to the former US Naval base on Johnston Atoll which closed on June 15, 2004.

Spader filed for divorce from Kheel in 2004 and,, has plans to marry his girlfriend ( and former Alien Hunter co-star ), Leslie Stefanson, with whom he had a child in August 2008.

Here, former rivals Brabham and Stirling Moss shake hands at the 2004 Goodwood Revival meeting.

Also in 2004, she portrayed a rising tennis player in the Wimbledon Championships opposite Paul Bettany, who played a fading former tennis star in the romantic comedy Wimbledon.

In 2004, French officials decided to build a satellite museum on the site of an abandoned coal pit in the former mining town of Lens to relieve the crowded Paris Louvre, increase total museum visits, and improve the industrial north's economy.

On October 20, 2004, Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri resigned ; the next day former Prime Minister and loyal supporter of Syria Omar Karami was appointed Prime Minister.

Hewitt spent much time in the late stages of 2004 working with his former coach and good friend, Roger Rasheed, on bulking up his physique.

The disputed amendments were signed by former oil minister Zeidane Ould Hmeida in February 2004 and March 2005.

In 2004, two years after the Hornets ' relocation to New Orleans, the NBA returned to North Carolina as the Charlotte Bobcats were formed as an expansion team.

Dwight Howard was drafted No. 1 overall in the 2004 NBA Draft. In the offseason, Weisbrod completely dismantled the team.

Near the end of the season, with a playoff-push faltering, Weisbrod fired Davis after leading Davis to believe he was going to be the team's head coach for the entire 2004 – 05 NBA season.

Brown's Pistons would win the 2004 NBA Championship.

Andre Iguodala, Philadelphia's first-round pick in the 2004 NBA Draft, was named to the All-Rookie First Team, and the 76ers returned to the postseason with a 43 – 39 record.

As part of a deal, the NBA promised that Charlotte would receive a new team in time for the 2004 – 05 season.

During the 2004 offseason, Paxson traded a 2005 draft pick to the Phoenix Suns in return for an additional pick in the 2004 NBA Draft.

Larry Brown coached the Pistons to the 2004 NBA Finals | 2004 NBA title and the Eastern Conference championship 2005 NBA Finals | the following season.

The Detroit Pistons | Pistons are honored at the White House for the team's victory in the 2004 NBA Finals.

Like most expansion teams, the Timberwolves struggled in their early years ; but after the acquisition of Kevin Garnett in the 1995 NBA Draft, the team made the playoffs eight consecutive times from 1997 to 2004.

Bobby Simmons won the 2004 – 05 NBA Most Improved Player award after averaging 16 points, 6 rebounds, and 3 assists per game.

An eleven-year NBA veteran and former NBA All-Star ( 2004 ), Martin joined the Clippers after signing with the Xinjiang Guanghui Flying Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association the previous summer.

After losing both the 2004 and 2008 NBA Finals, the Lakers won two more championships by defeating the Orlando Magic in 2009 and Boston in 2010.

They defeated the Rockets, Spurs, and Timberwolves in the first three rounds of the 2004 NBA Playoffs, before succumbing to Detroit in five games in the 2004 NBA Finals.

From 1999 to 2004 the clubs ' rivalry was often considered the premier rivalry in the NBA, and each time the clubs faced each other in the playoffs the winner advanced to the NBA Finals.

* 1918 – Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2004 )

* 1928 – Darrell Johnson, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )

* 1924 – Bobby Avila, Mexican baseball player ( d. 2004 )

* 1928 – Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer ( d. 2004 )

* 1944 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )

* 1926 – Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2004 )

* 1963 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )

In July 2004, Tulip announced a new series of products using the Commodore name: fPET, a flash memory-based USB Flash drive ; mPET, a flash-based MP3 Player and digital recorder ; eVIC, a 20 GB music player.

* 2004 – Teo Peter, Romanian rock musician and bass player ( b. 1954 )

* 1934 – Andre Rodgers, baseball player ( d. 2004 )

* 1972 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player ( b. 1934 )

* 2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.

* Hub Kittle ( 1917 – 2004 ), American baseball player

* 1923 – Elroy Hirsch, American football player ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Mack Jones, American baseball player ( b. 1938 )

Mills ' Exhibitionist DVD, from 2004, features him mixing live on three decks and CD player in a studio.

* 1941 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player ( d. 2004 )

* 1934 – Leon Wagner, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )

* 1933 – Ted Abernathy, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )

Former Australian Test player, Bruce Yardley, who himself was an off spinner in his day, was assigned with the task of ensuring Muralitharan bowled all his deliveries with the same vigour as he would do so in match conditions when tested in 2004.

* 1915 – Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire ( d. 2004 )

* 1938 – Mack Jones, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )