Last year three employees at a Michigan Circle K store became ill after handling money that had been contaminated with methamphetamine residue, according to a local news website, Ann Arbor.com.

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Newton is now chief executive of Esperion Therapeutics (nasdaq: ESPR - news - people ), an Ann Arbor, Mich.

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But less demand for the Italian masters may be good news for them, and for today's violin craftsmen, working as far afield as Ann Arbor, Bremen and St Petersburg.

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