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Would Abraham Lincoln have gone green? Frank Milligan thinks so. Milligan is the director of President Lincoln's Cottage, a Gothic Revival mansion on a breezy hill a few miles from the White House, where Lincoln and his family sought relief from the summer heat during the Civil War. The cottage and its surrounding buildings were made a national monument in 2000, and in preparation for its opening last year, the National Trust for Historic Preservation carried out a multimillion-dollar renovation. But preservationists didn't just restore the buildings. They greened them, beginning with the Beaux Arts house next...
...Credit Lincoln for our visceral revulsion at secessionist movements; he committed such eloquence to the argument for the Union remaining whole that to entertain any other notion, whatever the grievance, seems disrespectful to our bravest President and the rights he fought to defend. But what would happen if, after decades of indulging Texas' need to be the biggest and baddest and enduring all sorts of T shirts ("On the 8th Day, God Created Texas") designed to remind the rump 49 of our general inferiority, we called Perry's Lone Star bluff...
...colorful corruption case against the now former Illinois governor in the starkest possible terms. Normally tight-lipped U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald declared that Blagojevich, who was caught on tape allegedly trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat, had embarked on a "political corruption crime spree [that would] make Lincoln roll over in his grave." When the actual indictment came down April 2, the government was much more low-key, with no accompanying press conference or statement...
...drawn the most attention, his alleged attempt to auction off Obama's Senate seat, may not be one of the strongest charges. A jury may be more susceptible to the allegation that the "Blagojevich Enterprise" tried to shake down officials at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood for campaign contributions. More precisely, an executive at the hospital was urged to hand over $50,000 in campaign money in exchange for $8 million in state Medicaid reimbursements. (Read "The $5M Senate Seat...
...experts argue that profits sometimes drive what doctors prescribe. "When drugs take up 50% of health expenditures - two times more than other countries - there is a real problem with cost, access and appropriate use of drugs which is often driven by the profits gained from over-prescription," says Dr. Lincoln Chen, president of the China Medical Board, a U.S.-based foundation that promotes health care in Asia...