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| "It teaches you discipline," said Greg Jones. "If you go to practice every day for 2 1/2 hours, rain or shine, and you have to run your butt off...it's not easy. It's just like business." Today, he is chief executive of McLean-based Bookkeeping Express.

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Rockville-based Nabi Pharmaceutricals is hoping it can make millions of dollars by creating a vaccine that shuts down nicotine's access to the brain.

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How a medical revolution may transform Northern Virginia
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| Even as Washington policymakers struggle to reform the country's health-care system, about 20 miles away in Fairfax County, Dietrich Stephan is hatching a plot to revolutionize it.

By Steven Pearlstein

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CapitalSource will its nursing home business to Omega Healthcare Investors of Hunt Valley, Md., for $860 million, helping relieve CapitalSource of heavy debt acquired during the recession.

By Thomas Heath

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