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...yard pool, far from Olympic standards, but it was close to where the Krayzelburgs were living. It had a swim team, though not a serious training program. Lenny could practice on his own, compete with the team. There was no swim team at his high school, Fairfax, a basketball factory that had sent Chris Mills and Sean Higgins toward NBA careers, so the Westside JCC became Lenny's sole base for swimming. He even wound up with a lifeguard job there, so he was at the center for much...
...prestige that the crash and the grounding have caused. People paid thousands of dollars more than for regular airliners to fly the Concorde, not only for its speed but also for bragging rights. "The Concorde meant getting pampered," says Richard Aboulafia, an aviation analyst at the Teal Group in Fairfax, Va. "Uncertainty about the plane eliminates part of the cachet that was crucial to the Concorde's success...
...CEOs at the Tower Club. "The synergy of telecommunications and the Internet has created a boom." And this is a boom with cultural as well as economic consequences. The thousands of companies that dapple suburban Maryland and Virginia don't face the Pentagon or the Treasury anymore: they face Fairfax County, Va., where the real money is. "The best thing governments can do is stay out of the way," says a prominent northern Virginia venture capitalist, voicing a common if ironic sentiment in the heart of the region that created the Internet. But official Washington isn't about to disappear...
...Washington, money talks. Suburban Fairfax County (which bills itself as "E-county") recently became the richest county in America, with a median household income of $90,937. An estimated 2,000 high-tech firms are on hand there, helping attract 20,000 new residents each year. A decade ago, the main Fairfax shopping center, Tysons Corner, was just a big mall. Today Tysons is the 14th largest business district in the U.S. It consists of two strip malls and two mega-malls near one another, with 80,000 people working in the vicinity and dozens of high-end outfitters--like...
With all that has been going on, venture capitalists were sure to follow. There are 20 venture-capital firms with offices in Fairfax County alone. They include Draper Atlantic and Friedman Billings Ramsey. Fairfax County firms obtained $327 million in venture capital during the first quarter of 2000, well above the pace of almost $1 billion for all of 1999. Meanwhile, more than 150 foreign businesses, including giants like Cable & Wireless and Hitachi Data Systems, have parachuted into Fairfax County, and the Fairfax County government has established offices in London, Tokyo and Frankfurt. Says Alan Merten, president of George Mason...