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Ann Arbor residents have one more thing about which to feel smug. Our fair city, which perennially ranks on lists ranging from best place to live to most walkable, now also ranks No. 1 in brainpower, at least when it’s measured by educational attainment.
Seventy-two percent of Ann Arbor residents over 25 have college degrees.
Seventy-two percent of all adults 25 or older hold bachelor’s degrees in Ann Arbor, and 43 percent have advanced degrees, an analysis by The Business Journals found.
Cambridge, home to Harvard University, came in second, while Berkeley where the University of California is located, was third.
The analysis ranked cities with more than 100,000 residents.
Updated May 16, 2012, 2:28 pm
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka ruling, which declared that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal.
Go to article »On May 17, 1911, Maureen O’Sullivan, the American movie actress who played “Jane” in the Tarzan movies, was born. Following her death on June 22, 1998, her obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
By The Associated Press
1792 The New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree on what is now Wall Street. 1829 John Jay, American statesman and the first chief justice of the Supreme Court, died at age 83. 1875 The first Kentucky Derby was run; the winner was Aristides. 1940 The Nazis occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War II. 1946 President Harry S. Truman seized control of the nation’s railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen. 1971 The musical “Godspell” opened off-Broadway. 1973 The Senate began hearings into the Watergate scandal. 1980 Rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating a black man. 1987 An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors. Iraq and the United States called the attack a mistake. 1992 Orchestra leader Lawrence Welk died at age 89. 1996 President Bill Clinton signed “Megan’s Law,” a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in. 1998 New York Yankees pitcher David Wells became the 13th player in modern major league baseball history to throw a perfect game in a 4-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins. 1999 Labor Party leader Ehud Barak unseated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israeli elections. 2000 Two former Ku Klux Klansmen were arrested on murder charges in the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., that killed four black girls. 2004 Massachusetts became the first state to allow legal same-sex marriages. 2011 Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a statement confirming a Los Angeles Times report that he had fathered a child with a woman on his household staff more than a decade earlier. Current Birthdays
By The Associated Press
Boxing Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard turns 56 years old today.
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
Actress Nikki Reed turns 24 years old today.
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello
1941 Ben Nelson, U.S. senator, D-Neb., turns 71 1942 Taj Mahal, Blues singer, turns 70 1949 Bill Bruford, Rock musician (Yes, King Crimson), turns 63 1953 Kathleen Sullivan, TV personality, turns 59 1955 Bill Paxton, Actor, turns 57 1956 Bob Saget, Actor, comedian (“Full House”), turns 56 1959 Jim Nantz, Sports announcer, turns 53 1961 Enya, Singer, turns 51 1962 Craig Ferguson, TV host (“The Late Late Show”), turns 50 1963 Page McConnell, Rock musician (Phish), turns 49 1965 Trent Reznor, Rock singer, musician (Nine Inch Nails), turns 47 1966 Hill Harper, Actor (“CSI: NY”), turns 46 1969 Thom Filicia, TV personality (“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”), turns 43 1970 Jordan Knight, Singer (New Kids on the Block), turns 42 1974 Sendhil Ramamurthy, Actor (“Heroes”), turns 38 1982 Matt Cassel, Football player, turns 30
Historic Birthdays
Maureen O’Sullivan 5/17/1911 – 6/22/1998 American movie actress.Go to obituary »
77 Albert 5/17/1490 – 3/20/1568
Prussian duke (1525-68) and last grand master of the Teutonic Knights (1510-1525)73 Edward Jenner 5/17/1749 – 1/26/1823
English surgeon; helped develop smallpox vaccination59 Erik Satie 5/17/1866 – 7/1/1925
French composer52 Horace E. Dodge 5/17/1868 – 12/10/1920
American automobile manufacturer84 Dorothy Richardson 5/17/1873 – 6/17/1957
English novelist72 Jean Gabin 5/17/1904 – 11/15/1976
French film actor66 Karl Schafer 5/17/1909 – 4/26/1976
Austrian ice skater; won Olympic gold medal winner in 1932 and 193660 Stewart Alsop 5/17/1914 – 5/26/1974
American journalist64 Robin Maugham 5/17/1916 – 3/13/1981
English novelist, playwright and travel writer65 Robin Howard 5/17/1924 – 6/12/1989
English balletomane; promoted modern dance in Britain
MORNING
“In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him.”
Colossians 2:9-10All the attributes of Christ, as God and man, are at our disposal. All the fulness of the Godhead, whatever that marvellous term may comprehend, is ours to make us complete. He cannot endow us with the attributes of Deity; but he has done all that can be done, for he has made even his divine power and Godhead subservient to our salvation. His omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, immutability and infallibility, are all combined for our defence. Arise, believer, and behold the Lord Jesus yoking the whole of his divine Godhead to the chariot of salvation! How vast his grace, how firm his faithfulness, how unswerving his immutability, how infinite his power, how limitless his knowledge! All these are by the Lord Jesus made the pillars of the temple of salvation; and all, without diminution of their infinity, are covenanted to us as our perpetual inheritance. The fathomless love of the Saviour’s heart is every drop of it ours; every sinew in the arm of might, every jewel in the crown of majesty, the immensity of divine knowledge, and the sternness of divine justice, all are ours, and shall be employed for us. The whole of Christ, in his adorable character as the Son of God, is by himself made over to us most richly to enjoy. His wisdom is our direction, his knowledge our instruction, his power our protection, his justice our surety, his love our comfort, his mercy our solace, and his immutability our trust. He makes no reserve, but opens the recesses of the Mount of God and bids us dig in its mines for the hidden treasures. “All, all, all are yours,” saith he, “be ye satisfied with favour and full of the goodness of the Lord.” Oh! how sweet thus to behold Jesus, and to call upon him with the certain confidence that in seeking the interposition of his love or power, we are but asking for that which he has already faithfully promised.
EVENING
“Afterward.”
Hebrews 12:11How happy are tried Christians, afterwards. No calm more deep than that which succeeds a storm. Who has not rejoiced in clear shinings after rain? Victorious banquets are for well-exercised soldiers. After killing the lion we eat the honey; after climbing the Hill Difficulty, we sit down in the arbour to rest; after traversing the Valley of Humiliation, after fighting with Apollyon, the shining one appears, with the healing branch from the tree of life. Our sorrows, like the passing keels of the vessels upon the sea, leave a silver line of holy light behind them “afterwards.” It is peace, sweet, deep peace, which follows the horrible turmoil which once reigned in our tormented, guilty souls. See, then, the happy estate of a Christian! He has his best things last, and he therefore in this world receives his worst things first. But even his worst things are “afterward” good things, harsh ploughings yielding joyful harvests. Even now he grows rich by his losses, he rises by his falls, he lives by dying, and becomes full by being emptied; if, then, his grievous afflictions yield him so much peaceable fruit in this life, what shall be the full vintage of joy “afterwards” in heaven? If his dark nights are as bright as the world’s days, what shall his days be? If even his starlight is more splendid than the sun, what must his sunlight be? If he can sing in a dungeon, how sweetly will he sing in heaven! If he can praise the Lord in the fires, how will he extol him before the eternal throne! If evil be good to him now, what will the overflowing goodness of God be to him then? Oh, blessed “afterward!” Who would not be a Christian? Who would not bear the present cross for the crown which cometh afterwards? But herein is work for patience, for the rest is not for today, nor the triumph for the present, but “afterward.” Wait, O soul, and let patience have her perfect work.
