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November 21, 2005
“It all started with that dog,” says Kate Carras. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) More than 27 years ago Carras, now the assistant registrar at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, received a Border collie puppy, a sheep-herding breed. To keep the puppy entertained, Carras found sheep for the dog to chase. Carras soon…
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November 14, 2005
To him, life is a bowl of cherries. Edward Grant, a former farmer and now facilities assistant in the Kraus building, has cultivated a lifetime of wisdom and insight through a past once devoted to the joys and art of yielding crops. Farming stands not only as a way of living to him, but gives…
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November 7, 2005
For Dean Carpenter, a cabochon is not a difficult word to pronounce and is part of an easy hobby to get hooked on. Creating the highly polished, convex-cut, unfaceted gemstones has been a lifelong interest, one insiders call “cabbing.” (Photo by Kyle Carpenter) “It’s interesting to find the optimum presentation of the stone,” Carpenter says.…
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October 31, 2005
Debbie Montague is the type of person who appreciates receiving a gift that took time and effort to create, not just something bought off a store shelf. To her, these are gifts from the heart. (Photo courtesy Debbie Montague) Montague has created more than 300 such gifts through the years in her chosen hobby—basket weaving.…
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October 24, 2005
Her voice resonates wise beyond her years. Life experience and knowledge have forged a spirit of strength and momentum, and a hint of joyfulness peaks through as cancer survivor Toni Spano-English, a clinical social worker at the Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC), tells her story. (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) “I wasn’t the type…
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October 17, 2005
When the 2003 blackout hit Michigan and the northeast, people were advised to keep their refrigerators closed to avoid letting out the cold air. But what do you do when your refrigerator contains an 85-by-200-foot ice rink that must be kept at 20 degrees or colder? (Photo by Scott Galvin, U-M Photo Services) Such was…
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October 10, 2005
Kristy Urbanski has tried every diet on the market: high protein, low carbohydrate, grapefruit, energy boosters, cabbage soup and starvation, to name a few. When she was in 7th grade, for one month she ate only bananas and orange juice and lost 25 pounds. But after battling with weight her entire life and constant yo-yo…
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October 3, 2005
Michael Steelman considers himself a lucky guy. A coordinator of resources and student outreach at Arts at Michigan—a campus organization dedicated to integrating arts and culture into the undergraduate experience—Steelman has found a workplace that contains two of his loves: art and music. (Photo courtesy Michael Steelman) “My job allows me to have a creative…
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September 26, 2005
If his hands could talk, their stories would be endless. They would speak of a young boy who built bicycles from scratch, and of a man who always has used them to restore, to fix, and to create. (Photo courtesy Kathy Bennett) Terry Bennett, facilities manager for the School of Social Work, found himself working…
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September 19, 2005
While most information technology professionals on campus work hard to stay ahead of the latest technology and trends in the digital age, Dental School Chief Media Engineer John Squires faces a unique obstacle. (Photo by Scott Galvin) “One of the problems is that dentistry professors are so technologically adept,” Squires says. “The challenge is keeping…
