Word: lindau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Locating the gene that causes Von Hippel Lindau (VHL) disease--a rare form of kidney cancer--is the first step to understanding the causes of kidney cancer in general, said Bernd R. Seizinger the researcher who headed the international project. About 10 thousand Americans die from kidney cancer each year...
When he was still in high school, Eicher hitchhiked from his home in Lindau, on Lake Constance, into Munich to catch a Dizzy Gillespie concert, and a few years later, on scholarship to the august Berlin Academy of Music, he lived on yogurt so he would not have to skimp on his record collection. Production-assistant jobs around various Munich recording studios kept him in curds and vinyl until he met up with Karl Egger, a burly purveyor of discount audio and records. Egger suggested to Eicher that they record displaced American jazzmen who had fled the rock-dominated music...