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Supportkids promises to hunt down deadbeats and devote personal attention to custodial parents. Many customers are appreciative. Nancy Fox, 46, lost patience with the child-support office in Ann Arbor, Mich., after a decade of trying to squeeze payments out of her ex-husband. Months after hiring Supportkids in 1999, she gladly received a lump-sum payment of $7,590--after Supportkids took its 34% commission. When the state agency suggested that she might be better off canceling her contract with Supportkids, she recalls asking, "What are you, crazy? Then who's going to collect the money...
...went to Peru last year for Andrew's first visit to his birth country. "It was amazing," he says. "I loved the colorful art everywhere, and I liked seeing people on the street who looked like me." Now he is taking Spanish lessons back home in Ann Arbor, Mich., and has worked as a counselor at a Latin American-culture camp for adopted kids. Andrew's sister Malia, 11, was adopted from Bolivia. "We hadn't spent time in Latin America before the kids, but our children have brought us into this culture, and it is part of us," says...
...Mike Root, 58, who owns his home free and clear in Ann Arbor, Mich., sharing his house is mainly about companionship, not money. Never married, Root, a retired vocational counselor, uses a wheelchair, although he has some mobility in his legs. He relies on his housemate, construction worker Eduard Koopman, 54, to shop for his groceries once a week. In exchange, he offers reduced rent. His previous housemate, Maureen Salazar, 54, is a single woman who three years ago decided to leave the corporate world to pursue life as an artist. "I had to cut my living expenses," she says...
...described without using phrases like "youthful glow" and "dream of eternal youth"? Or am I the only woman in the world who is taking HRT in an attempt to increase my odds of living a healthy life instead of trying to be 29 forever? SARA SNYDER Ann Arbor, Mich...
Ardesta, the Ann Arbor venture-capital firm and self-styled "accelerator" of small technologies, has raised about $100 million in capital to nurture companies such as Discera, which is trying to shrink key cell-phone components onto a square-centimeter microchip, and Sensicore, which develops products that analyze water and blood. "I would tell you we are talking about this as a revolution," says Malhotra, "but I view nanotechnology as an evolution...