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Profiles
Michael Leech
As the sun streams through the windows at By the Pound, Michael Leech pours fresh coffee beans...
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Howard Markel
When Howard Markel was a U-M medical student in the early 1980s, the world was just beginning to...
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Jessica Prozinski
One year ago, Jessica Prozinski was a stay-at-home mom and part-time piano teacher enjoying a...
Read MoreKevin Spangler
At the entrance to his high-ceilinged garage on S. Fourth Ave., Kevin Spangler greets me with a big smile. He’s six-foot-five with shoulder-length brown hair, an angular face dominated by intense brown eyes, and a body...
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City Administrator Howard Lazarus
Late for an interview at City Hall, I sprint for the strangely darkened stairway. A man blocks me,...
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Susan Bryan
On a hot summer afternoon, Susan Bryan, Washtenaw County’s rain garden coordinator, leaves...
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Lynette Clemetson
“NPR is a great place to work, and it’s not a place you leave lightly,” says...
Read MoreDayna Logerquist
It is around 7 p.m. on the Saturday of U-M graduation weekend, and fourteen of the Fleetwood Diner’s eighteen seats are filled, plus four outside. Waitress Dayna Logerquist, the lone server on duty, keeps chaos at bay. The...
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Luay Shalabi
“Hello! How are you?” Luay Shalabi calls out to a boy arriving at Central Academy. The...
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Victoria Cendrowski
At the Eberbach Cultural Arts Building in Burns Park, Victoria Cendrowski is teaching a...
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Peter Warburton
Peter Warburton wrote to introduce himself as “the most famous duct tape fine artist in the...
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Kay Kendall and Rudy Haertl
Kay Kendall and Rudolf (Rudy) Haertl will celebrate their second anniversary this June. She had...
Read MoreKen Warner
When U-M public health prof Ken Warner was in college, he smoked so much that a Dartmouth classmate called him “Nicotine.” As he approaches retirement, Warner, sixty-nine, is world-renowned as an anti-smoking...
Read MoreRay Hunter
Duck and twist is a necessary contortion to make it through the rear hatch of a B-17 bomber. From there it’s a hunched-over shuffle past the belts loaded with 400 rounds of fifty-caliber bullets (actually display blanks)...
Read MoreNeutral Zone director Lori Roddy
“The world is yours, dude!” a skinny teenaged boy in ripped jeans declares grandly to his pals standing in the recording studio at the Neutral Zone teen center. But the kid freezes when photographer Adrian Wylie aims...
Read MoreMusic Dean Aaron Dworkin
“I’m your black-Jewish-Irish-Catholic-Jehovah’s Witness dean!” a smiling Aaron Dworkin told an audience of incoming freshmen at the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance. The kids laughed and...
Read MoreMargaret Schankler
Four years ago, Margaret Schankler was just another anonymous Internet retailer. When competition killed her business selling cool kids’ clothes and toys, she bought a streamlined vintage delivery truck and started Hello!...
Read MoreHerpetologist Patrick Terry
“The mushroom hunters have been here!” Patrick Terry exclaims as we enter the infrequently visited Leslie Woods Nature Area off Plymouth Rd. The city’s herpetologist points to the clues: crushed grass and...
Read MoreKeith Poncher
Keith Poncher cinches his helmet tight then tips his skateboard over the edge of the cloverleaf bowl at the Ann Arbor Skatepark. Momentum carries him far up onto the opposite wall, where he slingshots around and heads back down...
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