Author Alex London (“Proxy,” “Guardian”) had just arrived from New York with a serious case of jet lag, but he sounded upbeat. “Wonderful things happen to me when I’m jet-lagged,” he says. His dog of seven years, Baxter, was adopted when London went straight to the shelter after having been in Myanmar in 2007 covering the “Saffron Revolution.”
In 1864, American President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery after a civil war that was fought between the Confederates (slave states) and the Union states that were against slavery.
