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Lynn Thomas Lowe 63
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 59

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Peggy Lynette Lowe (Phillips) 36
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Johnson) 35
Md: Ronald Evan Johnson 44
Debra Eileen Lowe 29
Michelle Ann Lowe 27
Lori Ellen Lowe (Hatfield) 25
Md: Geoffrey Georg Hatfield 22

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Jennifer Lyn Atwood 15
Jeremy Scott Atwood 11
Michael Evan Johnson 1

General

Population: 6.24 Billion

• Geography:Antarctic Larsen ice shelf collapses
• Politics: International Criminal Court wins UN ratification – US refuses to ratify
• Science: Dark energy discovered
  Antimatter created
  Air-powered car invented
  Bugs trained to build circuit
  Scientists clone mice
  Evidence for small black hole
  Hominid fossils 6-7 mya found
• Deaths: Designer Bill Blass, Stephen Ambrose, Walter Annenberg, Milton Berle, Rosemary Clooney, Elizabeth Queen Mother of ENG, John Gotti, Stephen Jay Gould, Lionel Hampton US jazz, Ann Landers, Peggy Lee, Alan Lomax folk music collector, Princess Margaret, Dudley Moore, Johnny Unitas, Paul Wellstone, Byron White, Billy Wilder, Ted Williams

Africa

• Chad: Early skull discovered
• Congo: Nyiragongo erupts killing 245
• Tanzania: Lion attacks on humans begin
• Zimbabwe: Blacks sieze white-owned farms

Americas

• Mexico: Flooding
• Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez ousted and reinstated

Asia

• General: SARS outbreak
• China: Flooding
  Egg-sized hail kills 25
  China closes thousands of Internet cafes
  Jiang Zemin retires and Hu Jintao named successor
• East Timor: Independence from Indonesia
• India: Hindu-Muslim violence breaks out
• Indonesia: terrorist bomb in Bali kills hundreds
• Sri Lanka: Treaty between Tamil Tigers and government after 19 years

Europe

• General: Flooding
  Euro becomes European currency
• Great Britain: Wind and rain ruins Tiger Woods' game at British Open
  Government of Northern Ireland suspended due to suspected spy ring
  Welsh Kenneth Farr partially decapitated when safety barrier blown through his windshield
• Russia: US and Russia agree to cut nuclear arsenals
  Chechen rebels take 763 hostages in Moscow theater - Russian authorities release gas killing 116 hostages and freeing remainder
• Yugoslavia: trial of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic

Middle East

• General: Snow falls in Amman, Jordan, and Jerusalem
• Afghanistan: Quake
  US and Afghanis launch Operation Anaconda against Al Qaeda
• Iraq: UN Security Council calls for Iraq to disarm or face consequences
• Israel: Planes attack West Bank towns including Bethlehem
• Palestine: Bush refuses to recognize Palestine until Yasir Arafat is replaced

Pacific

President:

Pres: George W. Bush

General

• Culture: American Idol changes face of American music
• Finance: K-Mart bankrupcy
  Bear Sterns accidentally moves to sell $4 billion in shares instead of authorized $4 million - $622 million actually sold
  Bush signs corporate reform bill
  Kenneth Lay of Enron resigns after hiding debt and misrepresentation
  Dow closes below 9/11 low at 7702, then bottoms later to 7286
  
• Government: Bush creates Department of Homeland Security
• Military: Bush labels Iran Iraq and North Korea as "axis of evil" and calls for regime change in Iraq
  US abandons Antiballistic Missile treaty
• Politics: US Senator Paul Wellstone dies in crash and funeral appears to Americans as a Democratic Party rally – Republicans win House and Senate
  US withdraws from International Court treaty
• Science: Human cloning banned by US government

East

• General: Ice storm hampers travel in North East
• D.C.: Snipers prey on suburbs
• Massachusetts: Boston archbishop Cardinal Bernard Law resigns from sex abuse scandal
• New York: Museum of Sex opens
  Quake
• Pennsylvania: Miners rescued after 77 hours

Midwest

• Illinois: Four tornadoes simultaneously in Greenville
• Ohio: American Brittanie Cecil age 13 first person killed while watching NHL hockey game – puck to the head

South

• Florida: Aileen Wuornos put to death by lethal injection for killing seven men
• Texas: Tornado alarm gives 5 minutes warning in Happy

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Quake
• Colorado: Two inches of rain fall on burned areas causing mudslides
• Hawaii: Snow falls on Mauna Kea
• Utah: 2002 Winter Olympics
  71 mph gusts postpone ski jumping at Olympics

President

Pres: Gordon B. Hinckley

Membership: 11,721,548

Temples: 114

108. Snowflake Arizona
109. Lubbock Texas
110. Monterrey Mexico
111. Campinas Brazil
112. Asuncion Paraguay
113. Nauvoo Illinois
114. The Hague Netherlands

Other

• Church acts in supporting role in 2002 Winter Olympics
• MTC opens in Tema Ghana
• Bush 43 and Church leaders meet during Olympics
• First meetinghouses in Serbia, India, and first branch in Georgia
• President Hinckley becomes first Church president to visit Russia and Ukraine
• President Bush visits with leadership
• Daily visits to Temple Square reaches 10-20,000 during Olympics