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...medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta spurned President Obama's offer to become U.S. surgeon general, the White House resumed its search for qualified candidates to fill a role Obama called "America's leading spokesperson on issues of public health." On July 13, the President finally tapped Alabama physician Regina Benjamin for the post, calling his nominee "a relentless promoter of prevention and wellness programs" who "represents what's best about health care in America." A look at her accomplishments and accolades: See "A Guide to Preventing Illness at Every...
...Born in 1956 in Mobile, Ala., Benjamin was raised by her divorced mother in the nearby town of Daphne. While she was still young, her family came upon hard times and had to sell the land they owned. In order to feed themselves, they would make frequent trips to the Gulf of Mexico to catch crabs, fish and shrimp...
...When she began applying to college, Benjamin naively submitted an application to Yale University Law School. "They sent me a reply politely telling me that I needed my undergraduate degree first," she recalled. Instead she enrolled at Xavier University in New Orleans on a scholarship. She went on to attend medical school at both the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine. She also holds an MBA from Tulane University...
...Gained national notoriety after founding, in 1990, the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in the small shrimping village of Bayou La Batre, Ala. Benjamin said the idea for the clinic came after she spent three years working as a doctor in under-served areas for the National Health Services Corps...
...hawks and the disdain of liberals, Palestinians and just about every government in the Arab world. In February's election, Lieberman's 10-year-old party, Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Is Our Home), won the third highest number of seats in the Knesset, making him a linchpin of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government. That has complicated the Obama Administration's effort to pressure Israel to freeze settlement growth and restart peace negotiations with the Palestinians. How far Netanyahu travels in Obama's direction may depend on Lieberman's willingness to go along. "Lieberman is the most talented politician...