Word: surgeon
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Seven months after his nominee for Surgeon General was blocked by anti-abortion Republicans, President Clinton appointed Dr. Henry Foster his special adviser on reducing teenage pregnancy. The move allows Clinton to install Foster as point man on an initiative that was to have been a top priority for the Surgeon General, without risking the pain of confirmation hearings. "There are two interpretations to this," says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister. "One is that this is Clinton unable to restrain himself. He wins points with conservatives for the push to rein in teen pregnancy, but then he appoints...
...spends time not only on what he says but also on how he says it; he searches for the tangy phrase, the sticky epithet, the cartoonish image that will lodge in voters' minds and either inspire or terrify them: When he attacked the nomination of Dr. Henry Foster as Surgeon General, it was because "you can't have an abortionist as America's family doctor." On the stump, Department of Education employees become "some guy in sandals and beads...telling us how to teach American history," and the Democrats are "the party of national health insurance and Joycelyn Elders...
DIED. HAMILTON HOLMES, 54, orthopedic surgeon who in 1961 defied hate and ostracism to become one of the first blacks admitted to the University of Georgia; after heart surgery; in Atlanta...
Waldron and Hinds came dressed together as a "wacko surgeon" and a "wacko pediatrician," respectively...
Universal accessibility was pretty much what Bettmann had in mind when he started his picture-lending library nearly 50 years ago. The son of a German-Jewish surgeon, Bettmann was 12 when he began collecting discarded medical illustrations from his father's wastebasket. As curator of rare books at the Berlin State Arts Museum, he began obsessively photographing illustrations, lithographs, old prints and any other images within focal reach of his Leica. In 1935 Bettmann fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. with $5 and his father's best suit. He also took with him two steamer trunks of exposed...