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William G. Kaelin, a Harvard Medical School professor who is affiliated with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discovered the role of the von Hippel-Lindau gene in human kidney cancer. His findings were applied to create drugs, now in clinical trials, that counteracts the effects of the VHL gene mutation associated with kidney cancer to slow the cancer’s progression...
...glow-stick event (plus a tout for the town as the birthplace of a co-inventor of the laser, which gave rise to fiber optics). "We're a city in the midst of reinventing itself as a tech community, and we think Google Fiber could really help," says Aaron von Frank, the baby-faced 31-year-old tech developer who spearheaded the effort to get Google's attention as local officials completed the documentation necessary to keep the city in the running. (See the story of Google's doodles...
...efficiency is Google's main criterion, von Frank says he likes Greenville's chances. "It's a tight-knit community that comes together to get things done," he says. In short order, thousands of people formed a Google chain. Now Greenville has to wait to see whether faster connections will follow...
...group, losing not only his wife in the process but also his young child and a big portion of his family's inheritance, which his wife has donated to the church. Bergengruen says the film is loosely based on the real-life experiences of a German man named Heiner von Rönn, a onetime member of the organization. He says the filmmakers conducted exhaustive research in order to portray the religion as realistically as possible, including interviewing various former Scientology members and even going undercover to find out more about how the group works...
...That was when public mistrust of Scientologists was at its peak in Germany due to the controversial filming of the Tom Cruise movie Valkyrie. Many Germans were outraged that Cruise - with his strong affiliations with Scientology - had been chosen to play the role of Claus von Stauffenberg, a Nazi resistance fighter whom some Germans regard as a national hero because of his attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler. Defense Ministry officials criticized the decision to allow the filmmakers to shoot scenes at historic German landmarks, such as the Bendlerblock where Stauffenberg was executed in 1944. But the final straw for many...