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Science history: 'Patient zero' catches SARS, the older cousin of COVID — Nov. 16, 2002

A person came down with an atypical form of pneumonia in November 2002, but it would be two months before anyone realized it ...
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I Remember the 2002 Fourth of July Hill Country Floods. This Year, the Water Returned.

On July 4, 2002, my childhood home just south of Kerr County flooded after a heavy rainstorm moved through the Texas Hill Country, hitting the headwaters that feed the Medina and Guadalupe rivers hard ...

JPMorgan Flagged Jeffrey Epstein Suspicions in 2002—Little Changed

Newly unsealed court documents reveal that bankers flagged Epstein’s cash withdrawals to regulators years before public ...
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Science history: Russian mathematician quietly publishes paper — and solves one of the most famous unsolved conjectures in mathematics — Nov. 11, 2002

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.