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...that is really the bulk of the job (though the Washington Post reports that Gupta has been offered a concurrent position in the new White House Office of Health Reform), though most surgeons general have been largely invisible since the days of Ronald Reagan's C. Everett Koop, who spoke out often against the dangers of smoking. Bill Clinton's Joycelyn Elders got into hot water for advocating the teaching of masturbation, while George W. Bush's Richard H. Carmona admitted to getting a gag order from the White House on anything that didn't match the Administration's politics...
...Surgeon General, Gupta would oversee the 6,000-member commissioned corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. Traditionally, the office, which was established in 1871, has served as a soapbox for promoting healthy living goals: C. Everett Koop launched an antismoking campaign in the 1980s; Joycelyn Elders, under President Clinton, pushed for stronger sex education in schools (she was later forced to resign, following the program's controversy); and Richard Carmona focused on controlling drug abuse under President George W. Bush. With Gupta, that soapbox has the potential to become a podium for convincing the American public as well...
Which of your roles has been the closest to the real you? -Mark Koop, THREE HILLS, ALTA.I would say recently Elegy, with Penélope Cruz, and also Turtle Diary. But my mom would say "Oh, House of Sand and Fog, that's my boy." Those roles are like walking a tightrope. I could lose my balance and topple back into me so easily...
...shown that BPA is also safe as used. We are concerned that TIME's story may lead consumers to abandon safe plastics for products that are potentially hazardous to children because they can break and cause choking, cuts and other serious risks. As former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop says, "The enemy is not tiny amounts of chemicals that have proved safe for many years...
...fazed by an emergency. After a medevac helicopter crashed into the side of a mountain in 1992, he saved the only survivor by dangling from another chopper on a rope, hooking the wounded paramedic to himself and carrying him to safety three miles away. Match that, Dr. Koop...