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...posting to Lianjiang doesn't seem like a promotion. The rural county's neighborhoods of tight wooden houses lean toward the concrete banks of the Ao River like drunkards looking for support and not finding much. But winning the job of Communist Party Secretary there was Huang Jingao's big chance. He'd oversee the completion of renovations to the county town's riverfront and then could reasonably expect promotion to a bigger town in his coastal province, Fujian. The county's top position was a reward to the 52-year-old cadre for exposing corruption and braving death threats...
...Lianjiang of corruption. The article appeared on a website run by the Party's flagship People's Daily and became a must-read among knowledgeable Chinese?even though it was wiped off the Internet within 24 hours and Chinese media were barred from covering the case. The misconduct Huang alleges is almost banal?he says local officials deprived residents of their homes and manipulated land prices. What makes the case sensational is the rare dragon's-eye view given by a Party insider. So far, it has done Huang little good. Local officials insist he has not been detained...
...never far away?especially when local officials are chronically underpaid (the salary of a typical township magistrate in China is about $250 a month before bonuses and adjustments). For a local official to crack down on corruption can mean that cherished development projects get delayed. Indeed, in Lianjiang, Huang's expos? has stalled the county's first apartment complex financed by outside investors. "If this becomes a big scandal, nobody will want to invest there again," says a senior Party member in Fuzhou, the provincial capital, who has seen minutes of meetings regarding Huang's case...
...from waiting for more research, Huang is branching out. Eighteen months ago he began performing the surgery on patients suffering from the degenerative disease ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. ALS kills most victims within five years. By transplanting OEG cells to just below the cortex of the brain and in the spine, Huang claims to have slowed the progress of the disease in "several" of his 40 patients, and offers video evidence of one who regained the ability to walk. Another patient, Chicago-based playwright Ben Byer, was diagnosed with ALS in 2002 and underwent surgery...
...What Huang wants now is a high-profile patient to showcase his procedure. He has approached Christopher Reeve, but says the quadriplegic actor opted against having the operation. "I can't be sure, but maybe he could come off the ventilator after treatment," says Huang. A week after her surgery, Nan Davis is no longer sure that her sense of touch has improved, but her back and stomach muscles feel stronger. She hopes "in a decade this will become standard treatment." Until the results are more verifiable, though, it's unlikely the procedure will spread far beyond this one crowded...