Atari also used the game for its other late ' 90s and 2000s anthology series.

In the early 2000s, BBC Two also started simulcasting the channel, although the weekend morning show Weekend 24 had been simulcast on the channel in the early days.

The school voucher question in the United States has also received a considerable amount of judicial review in the early 2000s.

He has also been voiced in animation by Jackson Beck in the 1960s series The New Adventures of Superman, Stan Jones in the 1970s / 1980s Super Friends franchise, Michael Bell in the 1988 Superman animated series, and by Clancy Brown in the 1990s / 2000s DC animated universe, as well as a 2007 episode of The Batman and the 2009 direct-to-DVD animated feature Superman / Batman: Public Enemies, among others.

In the early 2000s, there also were plans to construct a new rail line between Bamako and Kouroussa and Kankan in Guinea.

Other new North American pop punk bands, though often critically dismissed, also achieved major sales in the first decade of the 2000s.

The BBC also produced several children's science fiction shows in the late 1990s to mid 2000s ( decade ).

Measurements made in the latter part of the 2000s and based also on observation of infrared spectral lines, have suggested that sunspot activity may again be disappearing, possibly leading to a new minimum.

They used the same graphics subsystem and Ethernet as the 2000s, but could also use up to 12 " geometry engines ", the first widespread use of hardware graphics accelerators.

In the 2000s, the People's Republic of China initiated a successful manned spaceflight program, while the European Union, Japan, and India have also planned future manned space missions.

Two free tabloid newspapers were also introduced in the early 2000s, ' Metro and Sp! ts, mostly for distribution in public transportation.

In the early 2000s ( decade ), U-M also faced declining state funding due to state budget shortfalls.

In the early 2000s, tensions also developed with neighboring states Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.

Hip hop music also saw a decline in the mainstream during the late 2000s because of electronic music's rising popularity.

Israel ( 1960s ) and North Korea ( 2000s ) are also thought to have developed stocks of nuclear weapons, and made the political decision to refrain from openly acknowledging them to the present time.

Several computer science buildings, such as Newell Simon Hall, also were established, renovated or renamed in the early 2000s ( decade ).

Furthermore, by the early 2000s, networked gaming via computers and then consoles across the Internet had also appeared, replacing the venue of head to head competition and social atmosphere once provided solely by arcades.

It is also still used in ads showing the network's current stars getting slimed from all sides in slow motion, and is used to slime the winner at the end of the Nick game show BrainSurge, which debuted in 2009 ( slime, as well as pies, was also used as a prize, rather than a penalty, in Nickelodeon's live daily game show Slime Time Live in the early 2000s ).

Contemporary Chinese art also saw record sales throughout the 2000s.

Since the early 2000s, it has also appeared in white ( sometimes red ) on a textured or coloured background.

It may also refer to other periods, such as the mid 1980s – 2000s period, contemporary with The Great Moderation.

Something For Kate ( or SFK as they are also known ) is one of the most popular and enduring Australian alternative / rock bands of the 1990s and 2000s, garnering nominations for 11 ARIA Music Awards throughout its career.

It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.

The 2000s ( decade ) saw a steady pace of growth and budget surpluses, but shaky inflation.

The 2000s ( decade ) saw a steady pace of growth and budget surpluses, but shaky inflation.

A similar flux was seen among the operators of cable systems: franchises were granted to a host of different companies, but a process of consolidation saw the growth of large multiple system operators, until by the early 2000s, virtually the whole industry was in the hands of two companies, NTL and Telewest.

The start of the 2000s saw a quiet period for the genre.

The early 2000s saw the creation of fledgling interim federal administrations.

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Internet users saw:

American television in the 2000s saw the sharp increase in popularity of reality television, with numerous competition shows such as American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Survivor and The Apprentice attracting large audiences, as well as documentary or narrative style shows such as Big Brother, The Hills, The Real Housewives, Cheaters, among many others.

Although there were less in this decade than there were in the 1990s, the 2000s still saw many popular and notable sitcoms, including Will and Grace, Malcolm in the Middle, The King of Queens, Arrested Development, How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and 30 Rock, among many others.

The 2000s saw a decrease in the popularity of radio as more listeners starting using MP3 players in their cars to customize driving music.

The 2000s saw a huge revival of 1980s fashion trends such as off the shoulder tops and neon colors came back in style.

Still, 2000s saw a rise of several independent TV networks like REN ( its coverage increased vastly allowing it to become federal channel ), Petersburg — Channel Five ( overall the same ), the relaunched 2 × 2 and others.

Between the 1990s and 2000s an increase in the use of dedicated hardware saw the advent of self-contained server appliances.

The 2000s saw continued rapid growth as the Hanford site hired hundreds of workers to help with the cleanup effort.

The 1990s and first decade of the 2000s saw another generation of jug band revival, which might be termed post-modern jug band movement.

However these same financial institutions in the 2000s saw black communities as fertile ground for subprime mortgages.

Redevelopment initiatives saw Berlin turn into one of the largest construction sites in the world through the 1990s and early 2000s.

The 2000s saw supervised techniques reach a plateau in accuracy, and so attention has shifted to coarser-grained senses, domain adaptation, semi-supervised and unsupervised corpus-based systems, combinations of different methods, and the return of knowledge-based systems via graph-based methods.

By the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the success of Christian-inspired acts like Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, Decyfer Down, Underoath, Kutless, Disciple and Relient K saw a shift toward mainstream exposure in the Christian rock scene.

In the 2000s the City Council saw a need to grow its tax and employment base after the unfortunate closings of AB & C Corporation, Dixie Narco and Kidde Fire ( Badger Powhatan ) and take advantage of the commercial development opportunities along the West Virginia Route 9 four-lane bypass north of Ranson.

The second half of the 2000s saw Harvard Law School's most dramatic academic changes since the implementation of the Langdell curriculum.

The 1990s and 2000s saw a resurgence in Diamond's popularity.