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Hydrid powered cars now comprise 1% of new automobile sales. The Japanese car manufacturers Honda and Toyota sell 90% of hydrid vehicles.

The Genographic project is launched by National Geographic to further characterize the migration of human population groups across the world. Your individual cellular DNA charts the migration of 2000 generations of your ancestors over the last 60,000 years from a common African ancestry.

The internet exceeds 600 billion pages - 100 pages per person for the world's population. Sixty per cent of this content has been created by individuals out of duty or passion.

Biotechnologists begin trials of bacterial therapies that employ genetically engineered bacteria to produce medicines inside the body at sites where they are required.

Airbus Industries conducts first flight of the next generation A380 airliner. The A380 will carry over 500 passengers at a fuel economy of 3 litres / passenger / 100km. Entry into commercial operation is scheduled for 2006.

A Lockheed P-38 has been restored to flight status after being abandoned on the Greenland icecap in 1942. The aircraft was recovered from below 268 feet of glacier ice in 1992, and restored over a twelve year period. The aircraft named the 'Glacier Girl' is one only two of the original 10,000 P-38s still flying.

India's first 540 MWe CANDU reactor, Tarapur Unit 4, enters commercial operation. India now has 15 reactors in commercial operation and the second largest national CANDU program in the world.

A review of CANDU industry control room annunciation experience and opportunities for improvement was completed for AECL.

A paper on the opportunities for adapting human factors practice to better suite the needs of decommissioning projects was presented at the Canadian Nuclear Society conference on Waste Management, Decommissioning, and Environmental Restoration in Ottawa.

Two papers on control room design methods were presented at the annual Canadian Nuclear Society conference. One paper described a task-based allocation strategy for defining usage of wall displays and the second paper outlined how Disney media design methods could be used to assist development of future control centres.

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