On 13 November 2008, Cessna announced that a total of 665 jobs would be cut at its Wichita and Bend, Oregon plants starting in January 2009.

On June 15, 2008, they played for Pet-Aid 2008 in Oregon.

In March 2008, Sondheim and Rich appeared in four interviews / conversations in California and Portland, Oregon titled " A Little Night Conversation with Stephen Sondheim ".

For example, the Independent Party of Oregon cross-nominated five major party candidates, winning races for the U. S. Senate, Oregon State Treasurer, and the Oregon House of Representatives in 2008.

In 2008, a lawsuit was brought by the Independent Party of Oregon against the Oregon Secretary of State claiming that modifications to the ballot design statute in 1995 once again required the state to list multiple nominating parties on the candidate's ballot line.

A 2011 paper by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard School of Public Health, “ The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year ,” utilized Oregon ’ s 2008 decision to hold a randomized lottery for the provision of Medicaid insurance in order to measure the impact of health insurance on an individual ’ s health and well-being.

The Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists headquarters was moved to the site in 2008.

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.

Lake Oswego railroad bridge across the Willamette River, Lake Oswego, Oregon, April 2008

* Allen Alley ( 1954 – ), Founder of Pixelworks, Republican nominee for Oregon State Treasurer in 2008, Republican candidate for Oregon Governor in 2010

In 2008, Wildcat softball players Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace helped carry injured opponent Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon University around the bases after she hit her first-ever career home run and injured herself running around the bases.

In 2008, the Oregon house seat encompassing the city of Bend switched parties and hosted the only Democratic state legislator from a district east of the Cascades, though the Republicans retook the seat in 2010.

After an extended illness, Norman died at 2: 45 am on February 24, 2008, aged 60, at his home in Salem, Oregon with family and friends present.

After a public memorial service held March 1, 2008, at The Church on the Hill, Turner, Oregon, Norman was buried in Salem's City View Cemetery, and his tombstone reads: " Larry Norman Evangelist Without Portfolio 1947 – 2008 Bloodstained Israelite ".

Hanson embarked on the " Walk Around the World Tour " starting on September 7, 2008 in Portland, Oregon and ending November 16, 2008 in San Diego, California.

* 2008 recall of Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, mayor of Arlington, Oregon.

On 4 February 2008 an Israeli woman was killed and 38 others injured in the town by a Palestinian suicide bomber ( see Dimona bombing ).

The current Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, who was sworn in on 5 September 2008, is the first woman appointed to the post.

The total fertility rate has also climbed from an all-time low of 1. 18 children per woman in 1995 to 1. 41 in 2008.

Total fertility rate: 1. 98 children born / woman ( 2008 est.

This policy was implemented after the 2008 incident where an African-Canadian woman was strip searched by members of the Ottawa police.

* 1. 98 children born / woman ( 2008 est.

The 2008 award also went to a woman, Barbara Liskov.

" When Estelle Reiner died at age 94 in 2008, The New York Times referred to her as the woman " who delivered one of the most memorably funny lines in movie history ".

* June 18 – Sandy Allen, American, world's tallest woman ( d. 2008 )

The dish is featured in the 2008 comedy The Ramen Girl starring Brittany Murphy as Abby, an American woman stuck in Tokyo after her boyfriend leaves her.

On 19 April 2008 an English woman, Jayne Jones ( age 37 ) who had an ectopic pregnancy attached to the omentum, the fatty covering of her large bowel, gave birth to her son Billy by a laparotomy at 28 weeks gestation.

On May 29, 2008 an Australian woman, Meera Thangarajah ( age 34 ), who had an ectopic pregnancy in the ovary, gave birth to a healthy full term 6 pound 3 ounce ( 2. 8 kg ) baby girl, Durga, via Caesarean section.

* Rick Mercer, in an episode of his self-hosted show Rick Mercer Report, attempted to throat sing with an Inuit woman when he visited the 2008 Arctic Winter Games in Yellowknife.

On June 18, 2008, a dust devil collapsed a shed near Casper, Wyoming, killing a woman.

She was the only French cinema actress to receive an Oscar until Juliette Binoche in 1997 ( Supporting Actress ) and Marion Cotillard in 2008 ( Best Actress ), and the first woman to win the award appearing in a foreign film.

In the August 9 – 15, 2008 edition of Heat magazine, when Timberlake was asked to describe his perfect woman, he replied " About 5ft.

In 2008 sister congresswomen Loretta Sanchez and Linda Sanchez published the joint memoir Dream in Color: How the Sanchez Sisters Are Making History in Congress. Publishers Weekly reviewed the book and wrote: " Linda and Loretta Sanchez present their compelling story — noteworthy not only for their history-making achievements ( including first sisters or women of any relation to serve together in Congress, first woman and person of color to represent a district in Orange County, first Latina on the House Judiciary Committee and first Head Start child to be elected to Congress ) but also for its “ American Dream ” aspect — their parents immigrated from Mexico and despite lacking a formal education managed to send their seven children to college.

In January 2008, Russian scientists announced that the charred remains of a young boy and a young woman found near Ekaterinburg in August 2007 were most likely those of the thirteen-year-old Tsarevich and one of the four Romanov grand duchesses.

Further bad news came when bus crash on 20 September 2008 in the neighbourhood, resulted in the death of two people-a young girl and an elderly woman.

In 2008, two residents died by homicide – the first in 85 years – when police said a young woman was shot by her boyfriend and a 59-year-old man shot his mother.

In July 2008 World magazine reported that Norman had fathered a child with an Australian woman Jennifer Wallace ( née Robinson ) during a tour in Australia in 1988 that she organized.

* Unitied Nations University's Media Studio's ( 2008 ) video brief including Kuku Nyunkal woman ( Marilyn Wallace ) visiting Kalkajaka

On 27 May 2008, an elderly woman and her husband were assaulted while walking through the national park.

Four time Olympic athlete 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008 Summer Olympics ), and first woman to qualify in three different Olympic sports events ( freestyle swimming, triathlon and modern pentathlon.

Many other director's cut music videos contain sexual content that can't be shown on TV thus creating alternative scenes, such as 30 Seconds to Mars's Hurricane, and in some cases, alternative videos, such as in the case of Spears ' 2008 video for Womanizer.

In Britney: For the Record, Britney's father Jamie Spears was making her cheese grits on the morning of the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.

* Circus ( Britney Spears album ), 2008 album by Britney Spears

Spears played the role of the promiscuous high school student Mandy Fener in the episode " Hot Sub " which aired on March 20, 2008.

Spears confirmed the couple's engagement in March 2008 after it was reported she was seen with a wedding ring.

In May 2008, Spears and Aldridge moved back to Liberty, Mississippi, and purchased a house, with Spears stating they would raise their child there.

On June 4, 2008, while in Amite County, Mississippi, the Spears family filed a complaint against Edwin Merrino, a paparazzo whom they believed was following and stalking the couple.

Spears gave birth to their daughter, Maddie Briann Aldridge, on June 19, 2008, at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb.

In September 2008, following the announcement that Bristol Palin was pregnant, it was reported that Spears had sent her a gift.

Mila Kunis received the 2011 Fun, Fearless Female of the Year honor, a title that had been previously awarded to Anna Faris ( 2010 ), Ali Larter ( 2009 ), Katherine Heigl ( 2008 ), Eva Mendes ( 2007 ), Beyoncé ( 2006 ), Ashlee Simpson ( 2005 ), Alicia Silverstone ( 2004 ), Sandra Bullock ( 2003 ), Britney Spears ( 2002 ), Debra Messing ( 2001 ), Jennifer Love Hewitt ( 2000 ), Shania Twain ( 1999 ) and Ashley Judd ( 1998 )

2008: The 2008 Video Music Awards were opened by Britney Spears which welcomed everybody to the 25-year anniversary of the Video Music Awards.

* " Phonography ", a bonus track on Britney Spears ' 2008 album Circus

* 2004 – 2005, 2008: Calvin Spears

In early 2008, Britney Spears made a one day trip to Rosarito in an attempt to avoid the paparazzi ; she failed.

* " Quicksand ", a song by Britney Spears featured on her 2008, Circus ( Britney Spears album ), written by Lady Gaga and Garibay

During the 2008 U. S. Presidential Election, Republican candidate John McCain likened Democratic candidate Barack Obama's celebrity appeal to that of pop star Britney Spears and socialite Paris Hilton.

The New Talent Initiative would continue, with a name-change to the New Superstar Initiative, when Long moved to ECW in 2008 and would see the debuts of Sheamus, Jack Swagger, Kofi Kingston, Evan Bourne, Tyler Reks, Trent Baretta, Caylen Croft, DJ Gabriel, Ricky Ortiz, Gavin Spears, Braden Walker and ECW referee Aaron Davis.

* In the pilot episode of the 2008 TV series The Mentalist, Patrick Jane ( Simon Baker ) tells a strange associate ( Jack Plotnick ), " If you don ’ t get horny reading Fangoria, Then I ’ m Britney Spears ".

*" Womanizer " ( song ), a 2008 song by Britney Spears

Rockman traveled to Antarctica in 2008 with Dorothy Spears, and works resulting from this voyage were featured in the " Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape " exhibit at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.