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...people." He won 97 of the 100 fastest-growing counties in the country--generally by a wide margin. Visiting so many obscure towns, Bush says in retrospect, "was an interesting strategy that really paid off." The President remembers a local official saying to him when he visited Marquette, Mich., "I think you will have seen 50% of the people in this area on this one trip...
Clarkston, Mich...
DIED. JAY VAN ANDEL, 80, billionaire co-founder of direct-sales behemoth Amway; in Ada, Mich. With his childhood friend Richard DeVos, Van Andel founded the company in the pair's basements in 1959 and built it into a worldwide network of individual distributors who sold cosmetics and furniture polish and earned a cut for recruiting others. In the 1970s the government investigated Amway, suspecting it was a pyramid scheme, but the charges were never proved. In 2000, it became part of a larger sales and business-services company, Alticor Inc., formed by Van Andel's and DeVos' families...
BRIAN A. PILLE Ann Arbor, Mich...
...presenting itself less as a home-improvement show than a life-improvement show. Each week the design team meets a family with a heart-wrenching story--disability, death, debt--and tailors a monster renovation to its needs. For the Vardon family of Oak Park, Mich.--two deaf parents with a blind, autistic son named Lance, 12, and a sighted son Stefan, 14--the team built a house with high-tech aids, including flashing-light smoke alarms and Braille labels on the walls. The Vardons also got a $50,000 college scholarship for Stefan...