Word: joycelyn
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This controversy came just three years after the dismissal of Joycelyn M. Elders from the surgeon general post. Elders was removed because of a comment she made about masturbation and her admission that she would be willing to consider the decriminalization of marijuana...
...Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. and former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, as well as several other public health advocates also added their names...
Griscom and Field, former co-workers at a small publishing house, were able to attract such writers--from Joycelyn Elders on masturbation to William T. Vollmann on venereal disease--simply by writing them mash letters and offering to pay them $1 a word--not bad for the magazine world and extraordinary for the Web. "I spend the majority of every day thinking about how best to communicate with writers," says Field. "And that's what did it." The letters work. Moody (The Ice Storm, Purple America), who doesn't use the Web and can't imagine anyone reading onscreen...
...beginning, there was EGG--for Ethnicity, Geography and Gender, the three factors used by Clinton to select nominees. Those characteristics still count, but sheer desperation to avoid any hint of S--for Scandal--has nearly choked the process to a halt. Burned by an outspoken Joycelyn Elders and a bumbling Henry Foster, Clinton has yet to name a Surgeon General. The Administration is dawdling even on routine appointments such as the promotion of David Lipton from Treasury Assistant Secretary to Undersecretary...
...JOYCELYN ELDERS FORMER U.S. SURGEON GENERAL...