In 2008, twenty-one pastors of house churches in Shandong Province were sent to labor camps, which was the largest sentencing of house church leaders in a quarter of a century.

* Reclaim the Media ( Included as one of twenty-one journalists, media activists, and educators in their “ Media Heroes ” deck of trading cards ), 2008

On 30 August 2008 the Western Morning News reported the school's best ever GCSE results and produced a table placing the school sixth out of the twenty-one independent schools in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset on the basis of points per candidate.

UGA student Deep Shah and alumna Kate Vyborny were elected in 2008, making the University the only public institution with two scholars that year and one of only six universities with multiple scholars that year.

In 2008, 22, 500 students came to Acapulco for spring break.

As punishment, during the fall exam period Gooch evicted two residents and relocated the remainder of Gate House to other places in the residence system, banned all current Gate House students from entering the building in 2008.

In November 2008, Columbia's undergraduate student body held a referendum on the question of whether or not to invite ROTC back to campus, and the students who voted were almost evenly divided on the issue.

Beginning in the 2008 – 2009 academic year, Dartmouth instituted a new financial aid policy extending need-blind admission to international students and replaced all student loans with scholarships and grants.

By 2008, Dartmouth had graduated 238 classes of students and has over 60, 000 living alumni in a variety of fields.

In the winter term 2008 / 09, approximately 4600 students studied there.

While George Mason University is young compared to established research universities in Virginia, it has grown rapidly, reaching an enrollment of 30, 714 students in 2008.

* Northern Neck – Upperclassman – Completed in 2008 and housing approximately 400 students.

As of 2008, only six students in the history of the college have achieved a perfect 4. 0 GPA.

* 2008 – A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.

In Switzerland, students since 2008 have the option of studying in the University of Zurich medical school earning a Bachelor of Medicine ( with a focus on chiropractic ) and a Masters in Chiropractic Medicine.

In 2007 the UK's first Vegan ' tapas ' bar was opened, and in spring 2008 the students voted ( by a large majority ) for Pembroke to serve only free-range chicken ( it will be the first UK college to do so ).

A well-known squat in Carlton was organised by international students in 2008.

Established March 26, 1636, it had an enrollment of 29, 082 students in 2008, and employed 8, 614 faculty and staff, 570 of which are full professors.

As of 2008, the university has 52, 445 students ( including 1, 612 degree students from abroad ) and 3, 657 academic staff.

In 2008, UPI began UPIU, a journalism mentoring platform for students and journalism schools, that allows recent college graduates to post their work on the site, but does not pay for stories.

On August 27, 2008 he was stripped of his named Arden Bement Jr. Professorship, and forbidden to be a thesis advisor for graduate students for at least the next 3 years.

The school was the subject of some controversy in the 1990s, but an Ofsted report published in January 2008 stated: " It is held in very high regard by the vast majority of students and their parents, and rightly so.

As of 2008, Peotone schools had a total enrollment of 2, 107 students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

In order to help them, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a new political approach to the economically challenged " banlieues " of France in 2008 saying that, " 500 million euros will be spent on the improvement of French public transportation ( an effort to make the ghetto less isolated ), an increase in police forces in the " banlieues ," a prioritization of creating new jobs for these underprivileged youth, a systematic crackdown on drug trafficking in the " banlieues ", and the establishment of new schools in disadvantaged areas for students who show particular promise.

La Trobe University operates a regional campus in Wodonga, with 917 students enrolled as of 28 May 2008.

In January 2008 it was announced that students from Singapore would be able to gain degrees in retail from the University of Stirling in a tie-up with the country's Nanyang Polytechnic ( NYP ).

According to a report in 2008, 215 out of 300 students who scored the top 10 in the 30 tested provinces and regions chose Tsinghua and 21 out of the 30 top scorers in each province and region chose the university.

* IIT students won the Northwestern University Entrepreneur Idol in 2008 and were finalists in 2009.

Following French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit in 2008, relations have improved.

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In a June 2008 issue of the journal Autoimmunity Reviews, researchers S Planque, Sudhir Paul, Ph. D, and Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Ph. D of the University Of Texas Medical School at Houston announced that they have engineered an abzyme that degrades the superantigenic region of the gp120 CD4 binding site.

Since the start of the 2008 season, the Falcons have recorded four consecutive winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

The Falcons have qualified for the playoffs three times ( 2008, 2010 and 2011 ) during this period, but lost all three in the first round

A 2008 quantum physics experiment performed in Geneva, Switzerland has determined that in any hypothetical nonlocal hidden-variables theory the speed of the quantum non-local connection would have to be at least 10, 000 times the speed of light.

Ajax's shirts have been sponsored by TDK, and by ABN AMRO from 1991 to 2008.

The following twelve members have been promoted to the status of " Legend " since 1996: Ian Stewart ( 1997 ), Gordon Coventry ( 1998 ), Peter Hudson ( 1999 ), Kevin Bartlett ( 2000 ), Barrie Robran ( 2001 ), Bill Hutchison ( 2003 ), Jock McHale ( 2005 ), Darrel Baldock ( 2006 ), Norm Smith ( 2007 ), Alex Jesaulenko ( 2008 ), Kevin Murray ( 2010 ) and Barry Cable ( 2012 ).

MSP Alex Johnstone wrote " Clearly, the Declaration of Arbroath is a literary work of outstanding universal significance by any stretch of the imagination " In 2008, the Campaign Group Chairman, Councillor Jim Millar launched a public petition to reinforce the bid explaining " We're simply asking people to, local people especially, to sign up to the campaign to have the Declaration of Arbroath and Arbroath Abbey recognised by the United Nations.

As of February 18, 2008, carriers in the United States were no longer required to support AMPS and companies such as AT & T and Verizon have discontinued this service permanently.

It had been hoped that patient adherence to antipsychotics would be higher with the atypicals, but a 2008 review found that the data have failed to substantiate the notion that novel antipsychotic drug use leads to improved medication compliance and favorable clinical outcomes.

More recently, the horn section of Antibalas have been guest musicians on TV On The Radio's highly acclaimed 2008 album Dear Science, as well as on British band Foals ' 2008 album, Antidotes.

Hydropower exports to India have boosted Bhutan's overall growth, even though GDP fell in 2008 as a result of a slowdown in India, its predominant export market.

Also in 2008 the Brazilian company Embraer showcased the Brazilian military transport aircraft, Embraer KC-390, and some countries already have shown interest in the aircraft, with France even placing orders.

As of the end of the 2008 season, players who have hit 115 or more career sacrifice flies:

Since 21 April 2008, the overnight bulletins, while produced by the BBC News Channel, have usually been broadcast from the studios of BBC World News.

In April 2008 Stephen Jones told a reporter, " I don't think I have a political bone in my body.

Although risks have increased, economic prospects for 2008 remain strong.

As of 2008, both parties have submitted briefs and responded to the Human Rights Commissions ' inquiries.

Jouve and colleagues suggested in 2008 that juvenile marine crocodyliforms lived in freshwater environments like modern marine crocodile juveniles, which would have helped them survive where other marine reptiles became extinct ; freshwater environments were not as strongly affected by the K – Pg extinction event as marine environments.

In South Australia and Western Australia the two parties compete separately, while in the Northern Territory and Queensland the two parties have merged, forming the Country Liberal Party, in 1978, and the Liberal National Party, in 2008, respectively.

There have been eight series sweeps since interleague play began: four by the Cubs in 1998, 2004, 2007, and 2008, and four by the White Sox in 1995, 2008, and 2012.

In the wake of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, there have been calls to rebuild the army horse inventory for disaster relief in difficult terrain.