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.

The original Yankee Stadium closed in 2008 to make way for a new Yankee Stadium in which the team started play in 2009 ; it's north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park.

On 21 August 2008, the official A1GP site reported that the 2008 / 09 season's first race has moved from the Mugello Circuit, Italy to Zandvoort on the 4 – 5 October 2008 due to the delay in the building the new chassis for the new race cars.

In 2008, archaeologists working at the site of Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia uncovered a small bone fragment from the fifth finger of a juvenile member of a population now referred to as Denisova hominins, or simply Denisovans.

On 4 July 2008, the official F1 site reported that more than 300, 000 people attended the four-day Melbourne Grand Prix, though actual ticket sales were later disputed by the local media.

While strips in this vein can be found online as early as 2006, the 2008 site Garfield Minus Garfield by Dan Walsh received enough online attention to be covered by news media.

The team had received all required approvals and was awaiting site demolition ; however, the 2008 – 09 financial crisis ultimately led to the scrapping of the Trails Stadium project.

In December 2008, machinima. com signed fifteen experienced television comedy writers — including Patric Verrone, Bill Oakley, and Mike Rowe — to produce episodes for the site.

On 28 July 2008, the beta of the new BBC Music site was launched, which publishes a page for each MusicBrainz artist.

Radiocarbon dating in 2008 suggested that the first stones were erected in 2400 – 2200 BC, whilst another theory suggests that bluestones may have been erected at the site as early as 3000 BC ( see phase 1 below ).

Second century marble sculpture of the modest Venus, discovered at the Scupi archaeological site in 2008 ( Skopje City Museum ).

The history of the site as well as information about the conversion was the basis for a 2008 documentary Architects Herzog and de Meuron: Alchemy of Building & Tate Modern.

From 2001 through 2008, the East Front of the Capitol ( site of most presidential inaugurations until Ronald Reagan began a new tradition in 1981 ) was the site of construction for this massive underground complex, designed to facilitate a more orderly entrance for visitors to the Capitol.

A new organization called Walk England launched a web site on the 18th June 2008 to provide these professionals with evidence, advice and examples of success stories of how to encourage communities to walk more.

The technology site, environment site and space site were discontinued in 2008, with the content being integrated into the main NewScientist. com site.

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.

Since 2008, access to the secure server ( used for making contributions to the site ) was blocked for people from those countries.

From 2005 to 2008, the game was at a neutral site, Las Vegas and New Orleans.

Excavations at the site of Gran Dolina, in the Atapuerca Mountains, Spain, 2008

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

In January 2008, he appeared on the second episode of Thank God You're Here and won.

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

The figure skating team won the national championship five straight times from 2004 through 2008.

Former heavyweight rower Dominic Seiterle is a member of the Canadian national rowing team and won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's 8 + event.

In the national elections held in early months of 2008 the DPP won less than 25 % of the seats ( 38. 2 % vote share ) in the new Legislative Yuan while its presidential candidate, former Kaohsiung mayor Frank Hsieh, lost to KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou by a wide margin ( 41. 55 % vs. 58. 45 %).

The Monarchs have won the Premier League 3 times 2003, 2008 and 2010.

Capello took charge of his first game on 6 February 2008 against Switzerland, in which England won 2 – 1.

In 2008, Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of legendary French singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, the first French-language performance to be so honored.

At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Entre les murs ( The Class ) won the Palme d ' Or, the first French victory at the festival in 21 years.

In 2008 Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, a biographical film based on the life of Giulio Andreotti, won the Jury prize and Gomorra, a crime drama film, directed by Matteo Garrone won the Gran Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

This was won by Inis Mór in a 2 – 0 match allowing them to use the title of Craggy Island until February 2008, while Inis Oírr was given the title of Rugged Island.

The 2008 election was won by the National Democratic Congress under Tillman Thomas with 11 of the 15 seats.

At the July 2008 election the NDC won a comfortable 7 seat majority over the government of former Prime Minister Keith Mitchell.

The 2008 and 2012 elections were both won by Boris Johnson, the Conservative Party candidate.

They have entered two plays into the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D. C .. Their 2007 show, For Boston, won " Best Comedy ", and their second show, The Sticking Place, won " Best Overall " in 2008.

Despite recording the most successful home and away season in the game's history, the club went one win short of back-to-back premierships in losing the 2008 AFL Grand Final, but won the 2009 Grand Final against St Kilda.

At the 2008 Olympics, Vijender Singh Beniwal won a middleweight ( 75 kg ) bronze medal and Vikas Krishan Yadav boxer from Bhiwani district won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the Lightweight category.

On November 4, 2007 the Patriots defeated the Colts 24 – 20 ; in the next matchup on November 2, 2008, the Colts won 18 – 15 in a game that was one of the reasons the Patriots failed to make the playoffs ; in the 2009 meeting, the Colts staged a spirited comeback to beat the Patriots 35 – 34 ; in the most recent 2010 game, the Colts almost staged another comeback, pulling within 31 – 28 after trailing 31 – 14 in the fourth quarter, but fell short due to a Patriots interception of a Manning pass late in the game.

In 2008, Torbay Council finally permitted the film to be shown after it won an online vote for the English Riviera International Comedy Film Festival.

The 2008 – 09 Manchester display, titled " Lindow Man: A Bog Body Mystery Exhibition at the Manchester Museum ", won the category " Best Archaeological Innovation " in the 2010 British Archaeological Awards, run by the Council for British Archaeology.