In 2008, it was discovered that the inactivation of only two genes in one species of annual plant leads to the conversion into a perennial plant.

It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.

For Hurricane Ike in 2008, Selig mandated that the Astros play two home games against the Chicago Cubs in his hometown of Milwaukee despite proximity to the visiting Cubs.

In August 2008, two traffic lanes from 42nd to 35th Streets were taken out of service and converted to public plazas.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

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.

Bacardí 8, for example, received two gold medals and a silver from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition between 2008 and 2010.

In addition, the already strong cross-border trade links between Colombia and Venezuela were solidified in July 2004 with an agreement to build a US $ 320 million natural gas pipeline between the two countries, to be completed in 2008.

* 2008 Ottawa radio licences: On November 21, 2008, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore issued a statement calling on the CRTC to review its approval of two new radio stations, Frank Torres ' CIDG-FM and Astral Media's CJOT-FM, which it had licensed in August 2008 to serve the Ottawa-Gatineau radio market.

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.

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

Coldcut also collaborated with video mashup artist TV Sheriff and NomIg., to produce two audiovisual pieces " World of Evil " ( 2004 ) and " Revolution ' 08 " ( 2008 ), both composed of footage from the United States presidential elections of the respective years.

In 2008 Cronenberg realized two extra-cinematographic projects: the exhibition Chromosomes at the Rome Film Fest and the opera The Fly at the LaOpera in Los Angeles and Theatre Châtelet in Paris.

* Analogue mobile phone service ( 1983 – 2008 ) assigned bandwidth for just two carriers ( A / B ); in much of North America these effectively were " Alternate " and " Bell " ( or the incumbent regional telephone landline monopoly in the area ).

On February 21, 2008, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband admitted that two US extraordinary rendition flights refuelled on Diego Garcia in 2002.

It was followed by the studio album, " Backwoods Barbie ," which was released February 26, 2008, and reached number two on the country charts.

By April 2008 two songs off this album were posted online.

* 2008 – President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final ( planned ) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.

With the progressive lifting of UN and US sanctions from 2003 – 2008, the two countries have been working together to jointly develop their oil and natural gas industries.

In 2007, relations between the two have thawed in the fields of diplomacy and economic trade, only to collapse during the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict when the Iranian and Egyptian politicians exchanged blames over inaction towards the escalation.

In 2008, Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif urged the two countries to focus on two specific projects: the Aljazera project which aims to cultivate some two million acres ( 8, 000 km² ) of land in Sudan, and a joint project to improve food security in agricultural and meat production.

In May 2008, residents along the western Ethiopian border reportedly discovered that the government had agreed to demarcate this boundary when Sudanese soldiers forced them out of their homes.

However, in 2008 the Food Festival was cancelled due to numerous complaints of disruption to residents and some businesses in the immediate proximity ; it has been replaced by a series of smaller events, spread out over the year.

The present-day figure of about 4. 6 million foreign residents, that make up some 8 % of the total population, include more than half a million children born in Italy to foreign nationals — second generation immigrants, but exclude foreign nationals who have subsequently acquired Italian nationality ; this applied to 53, 696 people in 2008.

Approximately 5 % of Hawaii residents speak Japanese, with an estimated 12. 6 % of the population of Japanese ancestry in 2008.

In June 2008, when word came that over 600 American service personnel were coming to receive training for the war in Iraq, residents of the city of Paris adopted them and made donations of everything the troops could possibly need so they might enjoy their stay in Paris before they went on to the war.

A 2007 poll commissioned by the Center Against Racism ( 2008 ) found a worsening of Jewish citizens ' perceptions of their Arab counterparts: For instance, 75 % of Israeli Jews would not agree to live in a building with Arab residents, 60 % would not accept any Arab visitors at their homes, 40 % believed that Arabs should be stripped of their right to vote, and 59 % believe that the culture of Arabs is primitive.

In May 2008, residents along the western Ethiopian border reportedly discovered that the government had agreed to demarcate this boundary when Sudanese soldiers forced them out of their homes.

In 2008, 98, 4 % of population of town was Italian, 1, 978 residents were foreign immigrants.

Canyon tourists and residents of Supai, a town located in the bottom of the canyon, were evacuated from the Supai area on August 17 – 18, 2008 due to a break in the earthen Redlands Dam, located upstream of Supai, after a night of heavy rainfall.

On 15 November 2008, a local residents ' scheme was introduced for car drivers resident in the Dartford and Thurrock council areas.

By the end of 2008, spending had reached 148. 365 billion yuan, among which 64. 613 billion yuan was spent on construction, 68. 557 billion yuan on relocating affected residents, and 15. 195 billion yuan on financing.

Sheen has appeared in television and radio ads urging Washington State residents to vote ' no ' on Initiative 1000, a proposed assisted suicide law before voters in the 2008 election.

In the fall of 2008 Worcester County has plans to open Worcester Technical High School to all residents of the county, to replace Worcester Career and Technology Center.

Lititz ' water quality was also criticized in February 2008 after Listerine was discharged into the aquifer by the nearby Johnson & Johnson chemical plant, and residents complained about a " minty " taste.

In December 2008, Mayor Kiril Yordanov claimed the actual number of permanent residents was 970, 000, or that there were 60 % unregistered people.

However, on September 12, 2008 after complaints from motorists and residents, NCDOT got permission from the FHWA to put the I-40 back onto the old alignment through Greensboro.

In 2008, the state notified residents of Belvidere, Eden, Hyde Park, Johnson, Waterville and eight towns in the adjacent counties of Orleans and Franklin, that a review of health records from 1995 to 2006 had revealed that residents within ten miles ( 16 km ) of the former asbestos mine on Belvidere Mountain had higher than normal rates of contracting asbestosis.

From 2000 to 2008, residents had left Chittenden in high numbers for destinations beyond Vermont's borders.

In the 2008 city elections, for example, two residents of Sun City were the only two candidates for Mayor of Georgetown.

An area near the A12 M11 Link Road ( which was built in the 1990s ) beside the section from Blake Hall Road to Selsdon Road was in 2008 preserved by local residents as a Wild-Flower Meadow with a year-round display of wild and naturalised plants, shrubs and trees ; starting in spring with oxlip ( P. elatoir ), cowslip ( Primula veris ), primrose ( P. vulgaris ), and meadow buttercup ( Ranunculus acris ), followed by many species including the grass vetchling ( Lathyrus nissolia ).

Citing statistics from the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations and the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama, the Gadsden-Etowah County Industrial Development Authority reports that approximately 12, 000 residents of Etowah County are underemployed and 2, 179 residents are unemployed as of 2008.