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...tracks - literally Amtrak's line from Washington to Richmond - the county's eastern corridor is one of the fastest-growing areas in the state, home to a Latino population that has swelled from about 5% of the population in 1990 to approximately 20% in 2007. Along the Occoquan and Potomac rivers, the state's northern and eastern borders, historic black neighborhoods argue for space with new developments: golf courses, strip malls, gated communities, retirement villages - many that stand half finished, caught off guard by the subprime crisis. Such bedroom communities have been the worst hit in the state...
...Prince William County wasn't on McCain's radar at the start, it is now. "Until this past week, I'd always discounted all those talking heads saying Obama will win Virginia," says Earnie Porta, the Democratic mayor of Occoquan, a small town on the northeastern end of the county. "But this week I started to think that with the economy going the way it is, maybe he could...
...machines employing everything from hydraulic cylinders to rubber bands. Such training has spread even to the more skill-oriented sports, including archery and target shooting. The reason is that scientists have learned that muscle strength produces not only power but also stamina. At the National Sculling Center on the Occoquan River in Woodbridge, Va., Igor Grinko, a former Soviet rowing coach who now trains the U.S. team, has had American Keir Pearson doing 400 pulls on the oars with 200-lb. weights attached. "When we slack off," says Pearson, "Igor screams at us that Russian women can lift more weight...
...Radcliffe lightweight varsity crew yesterday captured the national championship, while their heavyweight counterparts placed a respectable fifth at the Women's Collegiate National Championships on Lake Occoquan in Occoquan...
...demonstrations cost $1,078,500. The Pentagon spent $149,000 to airlift military policemen and paratroops to Washington, the Justice Department $190,000 in overtime for U.S. marshals, the D.C. government $176,000 in overtime for policemen and another $5,000 for those who ran the workhouse at Occoquan...