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...last week leading U.S. burn doctors had an opportunity to examine the claims up close, and they saw no miracles -- at least not yet. The Chinese doctor who developed the medication, Dr. Xu Rong Xiang, flew to the U.S. for the first time to present his findings at major burn centers in New York City, Boston and Bethesda, Md. The reception was not as warm as he might have hoped. Said Dr. Cleon Goodwin, director of the respected New York Hospital Burn Center: "Dozens of magic potions have been put forward as miracle cures in the past 30 years...
...method is disarmingly simple. Doctors spread a thin layer of the ointment over the wounded area with a tongue depressor and keep the skin completely covered until it heals. So far, the treatment has been used on 50,000 burn patients in China and on several hundred elsewhere. Xu and colleagues traveled to Thailand last month to help treat victims of a gas explosion in Bangkok. In the U.S. the doctor has won converts at the New Jersey-based National Burn Victim Foundation. Xu, 32, who comes from a family of herbal-medicine specialists, will not reveal the ointment...
Social observers believe a daughter's lot will improve as women become more valuable to China's growing economy and as the one-child policy eventually makes every scion -- male and female -- precious to parents. Chen's own daughter Jiang Xu, 19, reflects changing attitudes when she expresses her preference for a daughter: "To have a boy means happiness for a moment. To have a girl means a lifetime of good fortune...
...head of the Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong from 1983 until last February, Xu was Beijing's de facto ambassador to the British colony, which is to revert to Chinese rule in 1997. Though the 74-year-old Xu's Old Guard credentials are impeccable -- he was among China's early revolutionaries -- he advocated free-market reforms and was a close ally of Zhao Ziyang's. Last year, when the demonstrations in Beijing sparked sympathy protests in Hong Kong, Xu shook hands with some of the hunger strikers who gathered outside his office building...
...Xu, who is reportedly living in Southern California, has said through third parties that he is in the U.S. to vacation and conduct "a broad survey of American society." So far, he has visited the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas. His friend Lu Keng, a Hong Kong journalist, says this "research" will keep Xu in America "for quite some time." Says Lu: "My feeling is that he won't go back to China until Li Peng is no longer in power. He may want to avoid retaliation." Xu's old associates in Beijing may be cursing him, but Lu says...