Angelina Jolie gave birth to a baby girl, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt in a hospital in Namibia, Africa. There is no word on the condition of mother and daughter, or father, Brad Pitt, but one piece of good news is, according to some reports, the parents have already sold the rights to the first baby pictures for $5.4 million dollars and will give all the money to charity.
UPDATE: May 30 – Following the birth of their daughter, Jolie and Pitt donated $300,000 to help other mothers to safely deliver babies in public hospitals around impoverished Namibia. The couple also pledged $15,000 for a school and community center in Swakopmund a place they’d visited. A doctor in the private hospital where Jolie delivered said the baby was healthy and mother too.
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The world’s richest companies, that once fought in court against environmental activists are finding today that sustainability makes great economic sense. Customers appreciate that Starbucks uses recycled cardboard and wish it would use more, but the new twist is that sustainable paper saves the corporation money.
Experimental underwater windmills will be installed in New York City’s East River during the next weeks to begin generating power utilizing the non-stop action of the tides. Enthusiasts of the new environmentally friendly hydropower say the machines generate electricity without the problems associated with wind power. The scenery is not dotted with turbines and engineers say the low-rpm movement from the blades does not harm marine life. Unlike hydro-electric dams, which dramatically alter spawning populations of fish, this instream technology allows fish and mammals to "easily swim around" the turbines. . .