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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...
...most efforts in Latin America today focus on improving in-prison services that benefit both parent and child, like constructing day care centers in or near the facilities and providing inmates with good-parenting workshops. The plight of these children, however, doesn't seem to be high on any relief organizations' list. Save the Children runs programs for the 200 children inside Bolivia's San Pedro men's prison, but that's the extent of its work in Latin America. CARE does not deal directly with this population, and various United Nations agencies did not respond to TIME's requests...
...budgeted by the central government for health and education in the coming years, and its chosen method of distributing the money is often those same village committees. "The push is on for rural community development centers that include such things as health care clinics, deciding who qualifies for government relief, conflict resolution centers, libraries, even sometimes a small supermarket," says Liu. "This anticipates the return of the migrant workers so that they will feel they are being taken care of when they go home...
...some 80,000 died in 1908 when an earthquake struck the Sicilian city of Messina. Now, in the aftermath of the latest deadly temblor, come a series of familiar questions. Had all the buildings that collapsed been built up to standards? Will the money that has been promised for relief and rebuilding end up in the right hands? Could anything have been done to mitigate the damage? (See pictures of Italy's deadly earthquake...
...more active - and more accepted - role as a stabilizing force in the world economy, it will be much closer to the original vision of its role as outlined in the 1940s by John Maynard Keynes, who helped to found it. The IMF "is not a Red Cross philanthropic relief scheme, by which the rich countries come to the rescue of the poor," Keynes declared. Rather, it should be a "highly necessary mechanism, which is at least as useful to the creditor as to the debtor." Rediscovering that sense of equal exchange will be key to the IMF's rebirth...