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...warned that the U.S. should not look at developments “naively” and must recognize economic threats as they arise. But he did encourage America to embrace the birth of strong economies in Asia...
From his obscure birth to his shocking death, Abraham Lincoln provided all the ingredients for a myth that grows with each passing generation. A hardworking, self-taught farm boy grows up to become President, leads the nation through a wrenching cataclysm and is killed at the moment of victory...
...Army celebrates June 14—which is also Flag Day—as its birth date because it was on that day in 1775 that a collection of soldiers camping out on Cambridge Common formally became the Continental Army...
...signed the Emancipation Proclamation, his old friend, Speed, visited him at the White House. Lincoln reminded him of their talks during his depression two decades earlier. "I believe that in this measure," Lincoln said, referring to the proclamation, "my fondest hopes will be realized." Nearly two centuries after his birth, we can say with certainty that the ambition that powered Lincoln from his earliest days--the desire to establish an admirable reputation on earth so that his story could be told after he died--has been realized far beyond his fondest hopes...
...that even after controlling for such factors as income and insurance coverage, minorities in the U.S. routinely received lower-quality health care than whites. Matters were not improved in the early '90s when some Governors and state officials tried to mandate the use of a newly approved five-year birth control device called Norplant as a way of curbing teenage pregnancy and reducing welfare costs, a campaign that instantly acquired racial overtones...