In June 2008, Daily Variety named Straczynski one of the top Ten Screenwriters to Watch.

In October 2008, it was announced that Straczynski was engaged to pen a remake of the science fiction classic Forbidden Planet.

* The Twelve # 1-6 ( inks, with writer J. Michael Straczynski and pencils by Chris Weston, Marvel Comics, March – August 2008 )

Following Joseph Michael Straczynski and Joe Quesada's " One More Day " storyline the series was canceled to allow The Amazing Spider-Man to be published three times a month starting in 2008.

** The Twelve # 1-12 ( with J. Michael Straczynski, 2008 – 2012 )

In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

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.

In reviewing the 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production, The Telegraph reviewer wrote that " Sondheim's lyrics are often superbly witty, his music here, mostly in haunting waltz-time, far more accessible than is sometimes the case.

In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial / religious hatred in relation to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Interior Minister of France.

In 2008, Martin Sieff, in a review of the book Chaplin: A Life, wrote: " Chaplin was not just ' big ', he was gigantic.

In a paper written in 2008, Cass Sunstein, legal scholar, and Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, wrote of appropriate government responses to conspiracy theories.

Robert Harley of The Absolute Sound wrote, in a 2008 editorial ( on Issue 183 ), that " blind listening tests fundamentally distort the listening process and are worthless in determining the audibility of a certain phenomenon.

Connick did the arrangements for, wrote a couple of songs, and sang a duet on Kelli O ' Hara's album that was released in May 2008.

In a July 28, 2008, op-ed in The Washington Times, he wrote that he regretted his youthful anti-war activism, calling it the result of " Marxist propaganda.

" On July 28, 2008, he wrote an editorial in The Washington Times critical of then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Kid Rock performed on VH1 Storytellers on November 27, 2008, giving an insight to how he wrote some of his hit songs.

Ahmed Maged of Daily News Egypt wrote in April 2008 that Bassam el Shammaa was appealing to Egyptian authorities to rebuild the Pharos.

Paul Krugman, the Nobel Laureate in economics for 2008, wrote in his New York Times Op-Ed column for December 15, 2008:

* What We'll Find Inside the Atom by Dr. Leon Lederman is an essay he wrote for the September 15, 2008 issue of Newsweek

In 2008, Turner wrote Call Me Ted, which documents his career and personal life.

In 2008, Andy Strasberg, Bob Thompson and Tim Wiles ( from the Baseball Hall of Fame ) wrote a comprehensive book on the history of the song, Baseball's Greatest Hit: The Story of ' Take Me Out to the Ball Game.

Following the commercial success of the Matrix series, they wrote and produced 2006 film V for Vendetta, and in 2008 released the film Speed Racer.

“ While there had been sound economic growth in years prior to 2008, there were still sizable fund balance drawdowns in both 2006 and 2007 ,” Fitch wrote.

Since 2008, he has chaired the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and wrote the essay on usage for the Fifth Edition of the Dictionary, which was published in 2011.

Aykroyd wrote the liner notes for fellow Ottawa born blues musician JW-Jones ' album Bluelisted in 2008.

In 2008, Jones wrote and directed an opera titled Evil Machines.

Idle wrote and directed the Rutles comeback in 2008 for a live show Rutlemania!

After the 2008 South Ossetia war, Bildt wrote on his blog that the Russian rationale for its intervention, i. e. concern for the welfare of its expatriates in the Near Abroad, had certain similarities with the rationale for the annexation of Sudetenland.

Despite a June 2008 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory, in August, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to " liberate or recover occupied lands ".

A 2008 draft mathematics standard proposed that Kindergartners multiply to 30 by skip counting ( also known as counting by twos: 2, 4, 6, 8 ...), and that second graders solve simple algebra story problems.

The last draft revision was released on October 6, 2008.

This law is currently in preparation in the Armenian parliament that adopted its first draft in December 2007 and should do the same in the second draft in spring of 2008.

Whilst the draft resolution on Kosovo's status had yet to be endorsed by the Security Council, senior US officials had been suggesting that an agreement might be reached by 2008.

On June 5, 2008, Major League Baseball held a special draft of the surviving Negro league players to acknowledge and rectify their exclusion from the major leagues on the basis of race.

A dispersal draft took place on December 8, 2008 and with the first pick, Sancho Lyttle was taken by the Atlanta Dream.

Late in the season, with the Heat well out of any type of realistic playoff contention, head coach Pat Riley missed two games because he went to scout certain NCAA basketball conference tournament games, to prepare in the likely event that the Heat received the number 1 or 2 pick in the 2008 draft.

Michael Beasley was the Heat's highest ever draft pick ( 2nd overall ) in the 2008 NBA Draft.

On November 5, 2008, 2nd-round draft pick and rookie Mario Chalmers of the Heat set a new franchise record of 9 steals in the game against the Philadelphia 76ers.

On February 21, 2008, Ben Wallace, Joe Smith, Adrian Griffin and the Bulls ' 2009 2nd round draft pick were exchanged for Drew Gooden, Cedric Simmons, Larry Hughes and Shannon Brown in a three-team trade deal involving the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Seattle SuperSonics.

With a slim 1. 7 % chance of winning the rights to draft number 1, the Bulls won the 2008 NBA Draft Lottery and selected first overall.

On June 26, 2008, the Bulls drafted Chicago native Derrick Rose as the Number 1 draft pick.

The team also traded Ricky Davis and Mark Blount to the Miami Heat in exchange for the Heat's Antoine Walker, Michael Doleac, Wayne Simien, and a 2008 protected first-round draft pick.

With the 14th pick of the 2008 NBA draft, the Warriors selected and signed Anthony Randolph out of LSU.

The ' Hawks dealt mean forward Mark Bell to the Sharks, Michal Barinka and a 2008 second-round draft pick to the Senators, while Ottawa also received defenseman Tom Preissing and center Josh Hennessy from San Jose.

Later that day, the Blackhawks traded captain Martin Lapointe to the Ottawa Senators for a sixth round draft pick in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.

A few weeks later, on March 12, 2008, former Blue Jackets number-one draft pick Rick Nash was named the new team captain.

The draft of 15 September 2008 is entitled " Application file for the Heysel plain to host a new European quarter ".

There have been many revisions since, and the UK government states that it remains committed to heritage protection legislation reform, even though the draft Heritage Protection Bill 2008, which proposed a single ' register ' that included scheduled monuments and listed buildings, was abandoned to make room in the parliamentary legislative programme for measures to deal with the credit crunch.

* Tim Beckham-professional baseball player who was the first overall pick in the 2008 Major League Baseball draft after attending Griffin High School ( born in Griffin )

* Shawn Crable, second-team All-American linebacker and defensive team captain at the University of Michigan ; selected in the third round of the 2008 NFL draft by the New England Patriots

The cut through South Padre Island has shoaled considerably and as of early 2008, only shallow draft boats could safely enter at the Mansfield cut.