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Abraham Lincoln and the West

Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln: Few presidents have been so connected and so often compared. Obama served in the Illinois legislature, just as Lincoln did. Obama announced his candidacy from the steps of the old state Capitol in Springfield, Ill., where Lincoln delivered his famous “house divided” speech.  Like Lincoln, he rode a train to […]

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Woman on the water

To listen to the audio interview you need to have the Adobe Flash Player installed and Javascript enabled. Heather Wylie was a biologist working for the Army Corps of Engineers when she joined a group of people kayaking down the Los Angeles River – a “giant concrete trough” that runs more than 50 miles through […]

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