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Borders Group Sets 2009 Annual Meeting Date

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 12, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) today announced that the company will hold its annual meeting of shareholders Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern at the Ann Arbor Marriott Ypsilanti at Eagle Crest, 1275 S. Huron St., Ypsilanti, Mich. 48197. The record date for determination of shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting is March 24, 2009.

In addition to routine matters and a shareholder

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McKinley Appointed Receiver of Georgia Portfolio

On March 12, 2009 McKinley, Inc. was appointed as Receiver for a group of several Georgia properties. The properties include Lacota Apartments, a 266 unit community located in Doraville; Sinclair Apartments, a 352 unit apartment home community located in Norcross near I-285 and I-85; Alden Ridge, a 372 unit community in Clarkston with easy access to Stone Mountain Freeway, I-20, and I-285; Steeple Chase located in Norcross which includes 305 units and Somerset at the

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U-M Wolverine Venture Fund Invests in Arbor Photonics

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-The Wolverine Venture Fund at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business has announced participation in Arbor Photonics’ Series A round of financing.

Arbor Photonics is an Ann Arbor company commercializing technology that originated in the U-M’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

This second investment from U-M was made possible by the Frankel Investment Fund, a student-managed venture capital seed fund at the Ross School of Business. With the Frankel Fund’s original

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Urgent Ann Arbor Gold News

February 27, 2009 – Ann Arbor, MI – The Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce was recently informed that CertifiChecks, the company that administered the Ann Arbor Gold program, has gone out of business. The statement below was available on their website. Calls to the CertifiChecks management team have not been returned.

CertifiChecks will no longer administer Ann Arbor Gold.

CertifiChecks gift certificate sales for Ann Arbor Gold have been halted.

Do not deposit Ann Arbor Gold gift

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Tecumseh Products Company Plans to Recommend Recapitalization

Each Share of Class A Common Stock to be Exchanged for One Share of Voting Common Stock

Each Share of Class B Common Stock to be Exchanged for 1.1 Shares of Voting Common Stock

Tecumseh Products Company Announces Director Nominees and Competing Herrick Foundation Nominees

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Tecumseh Products Company , a leading global manufacturer of compressors and related products, today announced its Board approved a recapitalization transaction that it believes will deliver

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U of M Chemist and Local Life Sciences Company Patent New Biological Assay

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-University of Michigan biological chemist Ray Trievel and two scientists at Luminos LLC have filed a patent application for a novel method to detect enzymes that can alter DNA molecules, sometimes leading to the onset and progression of various cancers.

Demethylase enzymes remove methyl groups attached to DNA, proteins and toxins. They have become a target of intense interest among biomedical researchers.

The two known classes of demethylase enzymes produce formaldehyde as the product of

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