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Fall colors Thursday, Oct. 11 along I-75 near Grayling.

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The 2013 Ford Taurus marries a navigation screen with live weather radar. Great idea.

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A look west from an I-75 scenic overlook just south of the Mackinac Bridge.

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Crossing the mighty Mackinac Bridge northbound Thursday, Oct.11

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Morning rush hour, about 8 a.m., on US-2 just west of St. Ignace on Friday, Oct. 12.

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Ah, the Seney Swamp Stretch -- 35 miles of M-28 in the central U.P. without a single house.

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The next few pictures are from the Munising state scenic overlook along M-28.

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Joshua Pearce of Michigan Technological Univeristy

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Caryn Heldt of Michigan Technological University

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Guy A. Meadows, director of the Great Lakes Research Center at Michigan Techn, inside the spectacular new building on the Portage Waterway in Houghton.

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Guy Meadows with Tech's research buoys, in the shop for repair.

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Yun Hang Hu of Michigan Technological University

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Only two stories of this Michigan Tech engineering building show on street level, but another six stories flow down the bluff toward the Portage Waterway.

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John A. Jaszczak, adunct curator and professor of the A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum, with the museum's largest piece of native copper.

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Lanrong Bi of Michigan Technological University.

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The famous Keewenaw Snow Gauge with the Tech Tour Mobile.

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Through the Tunnel of Trees on US-41 north to Copper Harbor!

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Copper Harbor from Brockway Mountain Drive.

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The Houghton Lift Bridge from the Hancock scenic overlook

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The whimsically named Lake Plumbago along US-41 south of L'Anse.

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Yep. It's another hike to Munising Falls!

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Crossing Mighty Mac southbound Sunday, Oct. 14 through a driving rain.

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Debra Zellner, executive director of the Isabella Bank Institute for Entrepreneurship at Central Michigan University

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Paula Cotter, LPN (in front) and Dr. Sandra Howell test out a cryogenic device used to freeze tumors. Howell is a faculty member at Central Michigan University’s new medical school.

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The central hallway of CMU's spectacular Health Professions Building

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Xavier Leveque, a post-doctoral researcher in stem cell science at Central Michigan University

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CMU's medical school will occupy this space attached to the Health Professions Building when it opens this summer.