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...past year in a variety of publications -- from newsletters to Newsweek magazine -- concerning a substance developed in China called the Moist Burn Ointment. The stories raised hope among 100,000 Americans who suffer from severe burns each year that the Chinese may have made a breakthrough that could help ease the victims' pain...
...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's formula until he receives a patent, saying only...
Like Thatcher, he rose to the upper political echelons from humble beginnings. The son of a circus trapeze artist and onetime mercenary in Brazil, Major grew up in a two-room apartment in the poor London suburb of Brixton and left school at 16 to help support his parents. He drifted for a while before starting what turned out to be a successful career in banking. During that period, he worked as a laborer and even spent some time on the dole. Major later went to Nigeria to do community work; there he confirmed his deep hatred of racism. Following...
...suburbs of Detroit, where sagging auto sales have fanned recession fears, psychiatric referrals from a local counseling service are up nearly 20% over the past six months. Business is also booming at the Massachusetts Psychological Association referral service, where out-of-work lawyers and former bond salesmen seek help in coping with stress, anxiety disorders and panic attacks. Drugstores in the region report brisk sales in Tagamet (for ulcers), Prozac (depression) and Halcion (insomnia...
...other hand, terrorists require shelter, a place where they can be trained, a country, a state that will help in smuggling their weapons and giving them passports. Eastern Europe is no longer a shelter. If we manage to stop certain states from performing this role, terrorism will decline...