* 1932 – Cor Brom, Dutch footballer and manager ( d. 2008 )

A 2008 article in the journal Health Affairs suggested that the Dutch health system, which combines mandatory universal coverage with competing private health plans, could serve as a model for reform in the US.

* ( translation from the Dutch, Calvijn Handboek, 2008 by Kok, Kampen ).

A November 2008 poll showed that a 60 % majority of the Dutch population support the legalisation of soft drugs.

In November 2008, Pieter van Geel, the leader of the CDA ( Christian Democrats ) in the Dutch parliament, called for a ban on the cafes where marijuana is sold.

On April 25, 2008, the Dutch government, backed by a majority of members of parliament, decided to ban cultivation and use of all magic mushrooms.

* 1945 – Hans Monderman, Dutch road traffic engineer and innovator ( d. 2008 )

* Netherlands: In April 2008, the Dutch Government announced that it would ease the ban it had imposed in January 2007 that made it illegal to use a Segway on public roads in the Netherlands.

From 1 July 2008, anyone over the age of 16 is permitted to use a Segway on Dutch roads but users need to buy custom insurance.

The city has one professional football club, FC Den Bosch ( first club of Dutch international player Ruud van Nistelrooy ), and is also the home to top field hockey club HC Den Bosch, basketball team EiffelTowers Den Bosch and 2008 national rugby champion The Dukes

Van Basten had a contract with the KNVB for managing the Dutch national side until 2008.

2008 was also the first year large Dutch international corporations ING Group and TNT NV sponsored the event.

According to a 2008 study by Dutch geneticist Manfred Kayser, French people based on a sample from Lyon, showed genetic similarities to all Europeans especially the Swiss, Germans, Austrians, Italians, and Spaniards.

In October 2008 Rybka was rated top in the CCRL, CEGT, CSS, SSDF, and WBEC rating lists and has won many recent official computer chess tournaments such as CCT 8 and 9, the 2006 Dutch Open Computer Championship, the 16th IPCCC, and the 15th World Computer Chess Championship.

In September 2008, the Delta commission presided by Dutch politician Cees Veerman advised in a report that the Netherlands would need a massive new building program to strengthen the country's water defenses against the anticipated effects of global warming for the next 190 years.

* Arnade, Peter J., Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots: the Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt, Cornell University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-8014-7496-5, ISBN 978-0-8014-7496-5

On 23 August 2008, PSV won the Johan Cruijff schaal ( Dutch Super Cup ) 2 – 0, the goals scored by Danko Lazović and Dirk Marcellis against Feyenoord, PSV being the winner of the Eredivisie and Feyenoord won the KNVB Cup.

Barbara Mellor ), Résistance: Memoirs of Occupied France, London, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7475-9597-7 ( American title: Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War, Bloomsbury, USA, 2008 ); Dutch: Resistance.

At July 27, 2008, Rosenborg became the first Norwegian team ever to win a final match in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, beating Dutch team NAC Breda 2 – 1 on aggregate.

* 2008: Monsanto purchased the Dutch seed company De Ruiter Seeds for € 546 million, and sells its POSILAC bovine somatotropin brand and related business to Elanco Animal Health, a division of Eli Lilly in August for $ 300 million plus " additional contingent consideration ".

In 2008 – 2009 AZ won the Eredivisie, the Dutch football league, and became the Dutch champions for 2008 – 2009 football season.

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.

As of 2008, 1891 patents were granted to Caltech researchers since 1969.

As an example of this process, in 2008 Danish researchers first revealed the sequence of events when oxygen and hydrogen combine on the surface of titanium dioxide ( TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >, or titania ) to produce water.

Ten to 20 percent of the scientific publications of these ten universities in the period 2006 – 2008 were the result of partnerships with researchers in industry.

A 2008 study by Baylor University researchers found that clergy in the US often deny or dismiss the existence of a mental illness.

* In April 2008, researchers at HP Labs announced the creation of a working memristor: a fourth basic passive circuit element whose existence had previously only been theorized.

" In 2008, Yale researchers published a review on the safety and efficacy of ECT in elderly patients.

" In 2008, Portuguese researchers conducted a rat study aimed at answering the question of whether an electroshock series causes structural changes in vulnerable parts of the brain.

In 2008, researchers found that the Pen-tailed Treeshrew in Malaysia was able to consume large amounts of naturally fermented nectar of up to 3. 8 % alcohol content the entire year without having any effects on behaviour.

To incorporate nanowire technology into industrial applications, researchers in 2008 developed a method of welding nanowires together: a sacrificial metal nanowire is placed adjacent to the ends of the pieces to be joined ( using the manipulators of a scanning electron microscope ); then an electric current is applied, which fuses the wire ends.

In 2008, researchers in Germany reported on the mechanisms that cause the runner's high.

As of December, 2008, Italian researchers have discovered the pottery center where the oil lamps that lit the ancient Roman empire were made.

In a British study released May 29, 2008, researchers discovered that the common bacterial infections Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli appear to be risk factors in some cases of SIDS.

In December 2008, researchers from the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University completed a DNA tree of all 21 known species of beaked whales.

In 2008, British researchers developed methods of identifying users of marijuana, cocaine and methadone from their fingerprint residues.

In 2008, researchers found the apparatus that Miller used in his early experiments and analyzed the material using more sensitive later techniques.

On February 21, 2008 it was announced that NASA and researchers at McGill University had discovered a neutron star with the properties of a radio pulsar which emitted some magnetically-powered bursts, like a magnetar.

Despite these assertions, however, it is largely recognized and accepted by practitioners and researchers that leadership is important, and research supports the notion that leaders do contribute to key organizational outcomes ( Day & Lord, 1988 ; Kaiser, Hogan, & Craig, 2008 ).

However, a study, published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association ( April 2008 ) completed by researchers at Northeastern University found high concentrations of E. coli bacteria in the Charles River after a long period of no rain.

The organization closed in 2008, and its founder Cheryl Chase moved on to help found Accord Alliance, an organization set up to promote comprehensive and integrated approaches to care that enhance the health and well-being of people and families affected by intersex ( disorders of sex development ), by promoting collaboration and shared decision-making between patients, families, clinicians, and researchers interested in improving care and health outcomes.

Chang ( 2008 ) believes emotional intelligence is not definitive to positive affect and researchers have a number of paths that allow the enhancement of emotional intelligence ; however more study is required to track the gradient of positive affect in psychology.

In a paper published in 2009, researchers from Iceland recount their application of an interacting particle model to the capelin stock around Iceland, successfully predicting the spawning migration route for 2008.

The court documents released as a result of one of the lawsuits in October 2008 indicated that GSK " and / or researchers may have suppressed or obscured suicide risk data during clinical trials " of paroxetine.

In February 2008 researchers at the University of Bonn announced they have found the genetic basis of two distinct forms of inherited hair loss, opening a broad path to treatments for baldness.