Botswana, like many nations in southern Africa, suffers from a high AIDS infection rates, estimated in a 2002 UN report to be 38. 8 % for adults.

The European Commission, in its 2002 country report, recognised Bulgaria as a functioning market economy, acknowledging the progress made by Prime Minister Ivan Kostov's government toward market-oriented reforms.

A 2002 report estimated there were 5, 000 to 12, 000 blue whales worldwide, located in at least five groups.

In 2002, a report said " The oil companies do not view Equatorial Guinea's military – a product of decades of brutal dictatorial rule – with much confidence.

The 2003 Berkeley report stated that in 2002 alone, " telephone calls worldwide on both landlines and mobile phones contained 17. 3 exabytes of new information if stored in digital form " and that " it would take 9. 25 exabytes of storage to hold all U. S. calls each year.

His report, declassified from SECRET in 2002, was sufficiently objective that both sides in the debate based their arguments on the report.

An article published in the November 5, 2005 New York Times quoted two paragraphs of a Defense Intelligence Agency report, declassified upon request by Senator Carl Levin, that expressed doubts about the results of al-Libi's interrogation in February 2002.

On June 11, 2008 Newsweek published an account of material from a " A previously undisclosed CIA report written in the summer of 2002 ".

The article reported that on August 7, 2002 CIA analysts had drafted a high-level report that expressed serious doubts about the information flowing from al-Libi's interrogation.

A 2003 report by the Open E-book Forum found that close to a million e-books had been sold in 2002, generating nearly $ 8 million in revenue.

In 2002 – 2003, the team at LBNL attempted to generate the isotope < sup > 271 </ sup > Mt to study the chemical properties by bombarding uranium-238 with chlorine-37, but without success .< ref name = GSI2003 >" The search for < sup > 271 </ sup > Mt via the reaction < sup > 238 </ sup > U + < sup > 37 </ sup > Cl ", Zielinski et al .., GSI Annual report, 2003.

Sinclair Kopp ( 2002 ) report on the Oregon Historical Society's program.

In 2002, the BBC used the headline " English and Welsh are races apart " to report a genetic survey of test subjects from market towns in England and Wales.

The report picked up on an article originally written in 2002 by Jonathan Kay of the New York Times regarding the recent introduction of " Nazi protagonists " in the online gaming market ( referring specifically to Day of Defeat and Wolfenstein ).

The final report by this independent panel of international scholars, known as the Bergier Commission, was issued in 2002.

A 2002 report found that there were 18. 5 million skateboarders in the world.

In a 2002 report, the data showed no marked decrease in overall water quality, but a slight decrease in visibility due to an increase of algae.

On 6 May 2002, the Israeli government released a report, based in part on documents captured during the Israeli raid of Arafat's Ramallah headquarters, which included copies of papers signed by Arafat authorizing funding for al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades ' activities.

For instance, positron emission tomography ( PET ) studies report increases in dopamine release in the dorsal striatum ( as measured by displacement of endogenous dopamine by radioligands ) when participants are presented with potential rewards, such as the opportunity to gain money ( Koepp et al., 1998 ; Zald et al., 2004 ) or even when presented with food stimuli while in a state of hunger ( Volkow et al., 2002 ).

Similarly, fMRI studies typically report increases in blood oxygenation level dependent ( BOLD ) responses in the dorsal striatum during anticipation of either primary ( O ' Doherty et al., 2002 ) or secondary ( Knutson et al., 2001 ) rewards, much like the ventral striatum.

" The United States Environmental Protection Agency report dated October 2002 and released in December 2002 titled " Exposure and Human Health Evaluation of Airborne Pollution from the World Trade Center Disaster " authored by the EPA Office of Research and Development in Washington states that dioxin levels recorded at a monitoring station on Park Row near City Hall Park in New York between October 12 and 29, 2001, averaged 5. 6 parts per trillion, or nearly six times the highest dioxin level ever recorded in the U. S. Dioxin levels in the rubble of the World Trade Centers were much higher with concentrations ranging from 10 to 170 parts per trillion.

A 2002 report by the French government stated the worst-case Seine flood scenario would cost 10 billion euros and cut telephone service for a million Parisians, leaving 200, 000 without electricity and 100, 000 without gas.

In 2002, the Committee adopted a responsum that provides an official religious-law foundation for its past actions and articulates the current Conservative approach to the role of women in Judaism.

In February 2002, the International Olympic Committee retroactively decided that the curling competition from the 1924 Winter Olympics ( originally called Semaine des Sports d ' Hiver, or International Winter Sports Week ) would be considered official Olympic events and no longer be considered demonstration events.

By 2008 there were at least six institutions monitoring lake water health: 1 ) In 2002 the Conservation Law Foundation appointed a " lakekeeper " who criticizes the state's pollution controls, 2 ) Friends of Missisquoi Bay was formed in 2003, 3 ) the Lake Champlain Committee, 4 ) Vermont Water Resources Board

Some council-member states proposed an additional protocol to the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention, addressing materials and " acts of racist or xenophobic nature committed through computer networks "; it was negotiated from late 2001 to early 2002, and, on 7 November 2002, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers adopted the protocol's final text titled Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cyber-crime, Concerning the Criminalisation of Acts of a Racist and Xenophobic Nature Committed through Computer Systems, (" Protocol ").

Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly ( Conservative ), 2002

Starting 2001 sessions are held on a biennial basis interchanging with the sessions of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention ( CRIC ), whose first session was held in 2002.

In passing the 2002 Sarbanes – Oxley Act, the Senate Judiciary Committee found that whistleblower protections were dependent on the " patchwork and vagaries " of varying state statutes.

The 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2002 Paralympic Games were both organized by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee ( SLOC ).

He retained his seat on the CPC Politburo Standing Committee until 2002.

The 2002 report's criticism of the legal defence of ' reasonable chastisement ' of children by parents, which the Committee described as ' a serious violation of the dignity of the child ', was rejected by the UK Government.

Manzanar Committee Chair Sue Kunitomi Embrey welcoming crowd at 33rd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, April 27, 2002

The 2002 submission of the DAML + OIL language to the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) captures the work done by DAML contractors and the EU / U. S. ad hoc Joint Committee on Markup Languages.

In 2002, female paraurethral glands, or Skene's glands, were officially renamed the female prostate by the Federative International Committee on Anatomical Terminology.

In 2002 the Skene's gland was officially renamed to female prostate by the Federative International Committee on Anatomical Terminology.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 30 April 2002 issued a recommendation to the member states, on the protection of women against violence.

Senator Sarbanes's bill passed the Senate Banking Committee on June 18, 2002, by a vote of 17 to 4.

The Committee approved the final conference bill on July 24, 2002, and gave it the name " the Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002.

The reason for the timing disparity was to address the House Committee on Small Business concern that the cost of complying with Section 404 of the Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002 was still unknown and could therefore be disproportionately high for smaller publicly held companies.

The Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration was created as part of the Clear Skies Initiative in February 2002 by George W. Bush, as a Cabinet-level effort to coordinate climate change science and technology research.

* An Inquiry into the ImClone Cancer-Drug Story., " U. S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations ", June 13, 2002

During the season 2006 2. 5 million nights have been passed in the department compared to 2. 7 million in 2002 ( source: Committee for Tourism in the Department of Ain, 2006 ).