Every morning, Theresa Gratsch starts her day peering into rows of glass laboratory trays holding the stem cell cultures she's been coaxing along for years. She doesn't have to look far to see the importance behind the work she does. She just looks in her grandmother's eyes.

A two-year power struggle at Tecumseh Products Co. will culminate during a special meeting Friday when shareholders decide whether or not to oust two independent members of the Pittsfield Township firm's board of directors.

Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium was the last stop on a 15-city U.S. tour, but the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and its music director, Leon Botstein, were unstinting in a nearly two-and-a-half-hour University Musical Society concert Sunday afternoon that sandwiched meaty music by Sternberg, Bernstein and Copland between opening and closing odes to America and Israel, first in the form of the two countries' national anthems, and then in Leroy Anderson's "Blue Tango" and Naomi Shemer's "Jerusalem of Gold."