Nicole Kidman Welcomes Daughter

Posted on July 8th, 2008

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Nicole Kidman has given birth to a baby girl, Us Magazine reports. The actress delivered 6-pound, 7-ounce Sunday Rose Kidman Urban on Monday morning.
It is the first child together for the Oscar-winning actress and her country music singer husband [...]

Jessica Alba Welcomes Baby Girl

Posted on June 9th, 2008

People magazine reports that Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren are the proud parents of a baby girl.
Honor Marie Warren was born June 7 in Los Angeles. She is the couple’s first child.
Alba, 27, and Warren, 31, married in a quiet ceremony on May 19 at the courthouse in Beverly Hills. The couple met while [...]

Texas Polygamist’s Children Ordered Returned to Their Mothers

Posted on June 4th, 2008

In April of this year, almost 500 children were taken from their mothers and their Texas ranch home. The authorities were acting on anonymous complaints from a pregnant teenage girl who claimed to live at the ranch, and accused her middle-aged husband of abusing her. The police made the decision to raid the ranch, [...]

A One-in-a-Billion Baby Girl

Posted on May 31st, 2008

Here’s an incredible story of a miracle baby girl born in Australia this week.
Ectopic pregnancies, where a baby starts to grow inside a fallopian tube instead of the womb, usually end in miscarriage, or are terminated because of the risk to the mother. An ectopic pregnancy can irreparably rupture the fallopian tube, requiring a [...]

Millions to Receive Economic Tax Rebates

Posted on January 26th, 2008

In a package offered by congress and approved by President Bush to help the U.S. economy, approximately 117 million families will receive tax rebates that will hopefully give the country’s economy the stimulus it so desperately needs. Rebate checks will be between $600 and $1,200 and in some cases more depending on the amount of [...]

Twins or not twins?

Posted on January 15th, 2008

Here`s a riddle:
Two babies, a boy and a girl, were conceived 3 weeks apart and shared their mother`s womb for almost nine months and were born just a minute apart. Are they twins or are they not twins?

According to the Daily Mail and FoxNews, these UK-born babies aren’t actually twins because[...]

Burnt Remains Found May Belong to Missing Pregnant Marine

Posted on January 12th, 2008

Lance Cpl. Maria Frances Lauterbach, the 20 year old Marine that has been missing since early December has reportedly been found dead in the backyard of a comrade she had accused of rape. Maria had been set to testify about an unclassified “incident” on the Marine Lejune base in North Carolina when she turned [...]

And I thought having an 8 lb., 12 oz. kid was a lot…

Posted on January 6th, 2008

An Indonesian woman had a 15-pound, 2-ounce baby right before the New Year, according to French news service AFP. That’s not even the heaviest baby of 2007: A Russian woman had a 17-pound baby last fall. They’re both petite according to the Guinness Book of Records, which says the heaviest newborn ever weighed in 23 [...]

Man saves trash for a year

Posted on January 2nd, 2008

In a story first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, Ari Derfel of Berkeley, California, saved all of his trash for a year to see how much he actually generated. Final tally: 96 cubic feet. He has plans to donate it to a sculptor once the experiment is over.
In his own words from [...]

Man gives half his liver (to Grandma!) for Christmas

Posted on December 24th, 2007

Santa Claus used Chad McMaster to deliver the gift of a liver transplant to his grandmother Patricia Middleton. She suffered with chronic liver disease for many years before finally needing the transplant. According to his grandmother, Chad was a perfect match out of all of the family members who volunteered to be donors.
During [...]

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