22. helmikuuta 2002 oli perjantaina tähtimerkin ♓ alla. Se oli 52 päivä vuodesta. Yhdysvaltain presidentti oli George W. Bush.
Jos olet syntynyt tänä päivänä, olet 24 vuotta vanha. Viimeisin syntymäpäiväsi oli sunnuntaina 22. helmikuuta 2026, 106 päivää sitten. Seuraava syntymäpäiväsi on maanantaina 22. helmikuuta 2027, 258 päivän kuluttua. Olet elänyt 8 872 päivää tai noin 212 949 tuntia tai noin 12 776 955 minuuttia tai noin 766 617 300 sekuntia.
Date: 22 February 2002
By RACHEL MCCLAIN and YASMIN CHIN EISENHAUER
Rachel MCCLAIN
In this lesson, students look back at the athletes, events and related news surrounding the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and present brief newscasts recapping the highlights of individual sports.
Date: 22 February 2002
By RACHEL MCCLAIN and YASMIN CHIN EISENHAUER
Rachel MCCLAIN
In this lesson, students look back at the athletes, events and related news surrounding the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and present brief newscasts recapping the highlights of individual sports.
Date: 23 February 2002
Kevin Plumberg letter says murder of journalist Daniel Pearl is reminder of our vulnerability in war on terrorism(S)
Date: 23 February 2002
By JUAN FORERO
Juan FORERO
Elite government troops in Colombia land in Florencia in swath of southern jungle that Pres Andres Pastrana ceded to Marxist rebels three years ago so peace talks could take place; soldiers are retaking land now that Pastrana has broken off talks in furious reaction to recent rebel hijacking of domestic airliner and kidnapping of senior senator on board; Secretary of State Colin L Powell tells reporters that Washington supports Pastrana's decision to retake rebel zone; photos; map (M)
Date: 23 February 2002
By Peter Steinfels
Peter Steinfels
Los Angeles archdiocese appears far removed from sexual molestation cases involving priests in Boston and elsewhere, but parishioners need reassurance about safeguards against similar incidents to maintain vitality of Catholic community (M)
Date: 23 February 2002
muslim group starts an effort to increase vote
Date: 23 February 2002
Joan Baldwin Chapman letter says murder of journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan is true assault on all who love and express freedom in turbulent world (S)
Date: 23 February 2002
Identix Inc, maker of fingerprint-security devices, agrees to buy Visionics Corp for about $285 million in stock and other obligations; Identix's chief executive Robert McCashin will serve as new company's chairman and Visionic's chief executive Joseph Atick will be chief executive (S)
Date: 23 February 2002
By DON KIRK
Don KIRK
South Korea's Finance Min Jin Nyum says job of imposing financial discipline on country's deeply indebted companies belong to lenders, not government, but that country's banks are not yet up to task; defends his government's efforts so far to restructure economy, saying progress has been made; says from one side Federation of Korean Industries blasts government for involving itself too much in regulating business; adds from another comes equally severe criticism whenever government tries to help company, on ground that government is backsliding from commitments made to International Monetary Fund as condition for $58 billion rescue package in December 1997 (M)
Date: 23 February 2002
By CELIA W. DUGGER
Celia DUGGER
Orthodox Islamic school of thought that came to find its most virulent expression in Taliban originated in seminary in Deoband, placid north Indian town where Hindus and Muslims peaceably coexcist; its peaceful form of Islam has been altered as it spread; Deobandis of India embrace India's secular Constitution and religious diversity, while Deobandis of Afghanistan and Pakistan have sought to impose their fundamentalist brand of Islam by force; Deobandi madrassas of Pakistan became training grounds for holy war and many of Taliban leaders; divide between Deobandis had its origins in 1947 partition of British Indian empire into India and Pakistan; photo (M)