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.

On November 9, 2008, a radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, starring Robert Lonsdale as Paul Bäumer and Shannon Graney as Katczinsky.

* 1948 – Paul Davis, American singer-songwriter and musician ( d. 2008 )

* Cox, Paul ; " The Legacy of Agent Orange is a Continuing Focus of VVAW ", The Veteran, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Volume 38, No. 2, Fall 2008.

* 2008 – Paul Benedict, American actor ( b. 1938 )

* Miller, Paul D. aka DJ Spooky, Sound Unbound: Writings on DJ Culture and Electronic Music, MIT Press 2008.

* Sabor, Peter & Paul Yachnin ( 2008 ).

In 2008, Paul Gibbs, a Briton from Leeds, UK was attacked by three men.

* Paul J. McAuley, The Quiet War ( 2008 )

* 1925 – Paul Newman, American actor, philanthropist, race car driver and race team owner ( d. 2008 )

* 1917 – Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and journalist ( d. 2008 )

* 1952 – Paul Hibbert, Australian cricketer ( d. 2008 )

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

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

The inquest lasted for six months, and the jury verdict, declared given on 7 April 2008, was that Diana and Dodi had been unlawfully killed through the negligent driving of Henri Paul and those in control of the pursuing vehicles.

On May 2, 2008 Ağca asked to be awarded Polish citizenship as he wished to spend the final years of his life in Poland, Pope John Paul II's country of origin.

The 2008 Finals saw a rematch of the league's highest profile rivalry, the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers, with the Celtics prevailing, for their league leading 17th championship, thanks to their new big three of Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett.

On October 30, 2008, the Seattle-King County Association of Realtors honored Paul Allen for his “ unwavering commitment to nonprofit organizations in the Pacific Northwest and lifetime giving approaching US $ 1 billion .”

On October 26, 2008, Paul Allen was given the Herbie Hancock Humanitarian Award from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz for his " visionary achievements as a businessman and a global philanthropist.

In August 2008, he spoke at the book launch of Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's Interrupted Revolution, authored by economist David Love.

* Lowe, David ( 2008 ), Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's interrupted revolution, Scribe.

* Coffey, John and Paul C. H. Lim ( 2008 ).

* Paul the Octopus ( 2008 – 2010 ), an octopus that correctly guessed results in the 2010 World Cup

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In Dune: House Corrino ( published in 2001 and the third novel in the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ), Piter De Vries discovers the Harkonnen heritage of Lady Jessica and her newborn son Paul, and attempts to kidnap and ransom the infant.

In 1952, William Buckler identified the author of the novel as Charles Warren Adams and in 2011 American investigator Paul Collins found a number of lines of evidence that confirmed Buckler's initial claim.

He used this rather disparaging term in his 1830 novel Paul Clifford: He is certainly a man who bathes and ‘ lives cleanly ’, ( two especial charges preferred against him by Messrs. the Great Unwashed ).

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

The novel also explores the motive of doppelgänger, the term which was coined by another German author ( and supporter of Hoffmann ) Jean Paul in his humorous novel Siebenkäs ( 1796-1797 ).

* The 1965 novel Dune features such warfare as conducted against House Harkonnen by the nomadic Fremen tribe, led by Paul Atreides.

* Hosts ( novel ), a 2001 book written by American author F. Paul Wilson

Alan Segal in his book Paul the Convert suggests that the Apostle Paul may have been an early adept of Merkabah mysticism in which case what was novel to Paul's experience of divine light on the road to Damascus was not the experience of divine light itself, but that the source of this divine light identified himself as the Jesus whose followers Paul was persecuting.

Shang-Chi had two more short series: the Master of Kung Fu: Bleeding Black graphic novel ( 1990 ) and the MAX miniseries Master of Kung Fu: Hellfire Apocalypse ( 2002 ) ( with artist Paul Gulacy on art again ).

* The novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis, mentions the movie in an impersonation by Daniel Watson, the father of the family.

* In F. Paul Wilson's 2009 Repairman Jack novel Ground Zero, the recurring character of The Lady is revealed to be a manifestation of the Noosphere whose function is that of a " beacon " which informs a higher intelligence (" the Ally ") that sentient life exists in the area where she appears.

In 1987, the Bachman novel The Running Man inspired the Paul Glaser film of the same name.

In Stephen King's novel Misery the protagonist, Paul Sheldon, is forced to write a sequel to his book Misery's Child, in which the main character, Misery Chastain, dies.

During the second half of 2011, Gilliam wrote a screenplay, co-authored by Paul Auster, for a film adaptation of Auster's novel Mr. Vertigo.

* Titan ( Jean Paul ), a German early nineteenth century romance novel

Others are connected only by theme: for example, each film of Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors trilogy explores one of the political ideals of the French Republic ( liberty, equality, fraternity ) and each novel in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy uses formats from detective fiction to explore existential questions.

* In the 1960 Cold War novel Village of Stars by David Beaty ( writing as Paul Stanton ), an RAF V-bomber of the fictional Venger type is sent to drop a nuclear bomb on a rebel force in the Middle East.

In May 2006, Petersen's $ 160 million epic film Poseidon, a re-telling of the 1969 Paul Gallico novel ( and popular 1972 disaster film ) The Poseidon Adventure, was released by Warner Bros., but performed poorly in the US, barely cracking $ 60 million in box office receipts by early August, although international profits surpassed $ 121 million.

* Medusa, a novel by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos

* Core ( novel ), a 1993 science fiction novel by Paul Preuss