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...sler, Germany's new Health Minister, in his quest to shake up the country's expensive public health-care system. At 36, the Vietnamese-born politician is the youngest member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's new center-right coalition government and the first Asian ever to be appointed a German cabinet minister. Softly spoken and affable, he certainly doesn't seem like a political bruiser. But rumor has it that no one dared challenge him when he attended Catholic school in Hannover because they thought he was some kind of martial arts enthusiast. "Everyone always thinks that just because...
...fact, Rösler has lived in Germany since he was 9 months old, when his German parents adopted him from an orphanage in Vietnam. He went on to study medicine, gaining not only a detailed insight into his new portfolio but also the nickname "Doc." In 1992, at the age of 29, however, he gave up a promising medical career to enter politics, joining the economically liberal Free Democrats (FDP). In 2003, he was elected to the regional parliament in Lower Saxony, and six years later, after working his way up the ranks of the FDP, he became Economy...
...party also claiming the key economics portfolio along with international development and justice, the Free Democrats are aiming to leverage their junior coalition position for maximum effect. Rösler, as the party's rising star, will no doubt figure prominently in their plans. (Read: "'Much Work' Ahead for German Chancellor Merkel...
...formally re-elected as Chancellor for a second term on Wednesday, chaired the first meeting of her new cabinet before embarking on a diplomatic tour that will include a stop in Washington to address a joint session of Congress on Nov. 3. It's a rare honor - the last German Chancellor to do this was Konrad Adenauer in 1957. While in Washington, Merkel will also get a glimpse of the tortuous negotiations that are taking place on health-care reform in the U.S. - and she may come to wonder whether her fresh-faced new Health Minister is really...
...majority of the world's gelato machines. In Valli's more than 20 years as a gelato master, he has acquiesced to some rather strange requests, including creating a tasty salmon gelato, a pesto gelato for an Indian chef and three different kinds of beer gelato for a German gelateria. An aspiring Dutch gelato maker in a recent class at Gelato U. suggested that she might like to learn how to make hash-flavored gelato (with all the taste but without the intoxicant). (See pictures of Gelato University...