People interested in Viking history and sailing take a voyage on the replica Viking longship called the Sae Hrafn, which means "sea raven," from Calvert Marina on Solomons Island, Md.

Photographer Steve McCurry describes his work documenting the effects of the disease.

Students with disabilities attend a ball with a concert by American Idol winner Ruben Studdard and a motivational speech by author Kyle Maynard. Video by Whitney Shefte/washingtonpost.com, Additional Reporting by Jennifer Carpenter/washingtonpost.com

Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein introduce their series about the haphazard state of medical care provided at immigration detention centers.

After arriving at a New York airport from overseas, Amina Mudey was detained at detention center in Elizabeth, N.J., for about five months while her request for political asylum was considered. While in detention, Mudey and two outside doctors say she was misdiagnosed and given an anti-psychotic drug that caused her to suffer serious side effects.

Yusif Osman was a legal resident from Ghana and had been living in Los Angeles for five years. Osman faced deportation on smuggling charges, an allegation he denied. While at a detention center outside San Diego, he died suddenly. His story highlights the poor care some immigrants have received in immigration facilities across the U.S.

Yong Sun Harvill faces deportation to her native South Korea, a country she left more than 30 years ago. While her lawyers fight her immigration case, she is detained in Arizona, thousands of miles from her Florida home, in a county jail that doesn't have a full-time doctor. Cut off from friends and family, she struggles to obtain care for a long list of medical problems, including cancer.

A look at the life of Darryl Scott, a man who lives full-time at the Pimlico racetrack, tending to the horses all year long.

Two Iraq veterans are studying art while recuperating from serious injuries.

Date Lab lets the celebrity capuchin from Rockville fill in as guest matchmaker to see if a monkey can set up a successful romance.

In his first trip to New York, Pope Benedict XVI expressed shame for the child abuse scandal and encouraged young Catholics to be active in the Church.

From his landing at Andrews Air Force Base to his historic first Mass in the United States, Pope Benedict XVI was the focal point of tens of thousands of Catholics in the D.C. area.

The Glover Park Community Garden in Northwest Washington has been a mecca for urban gardening since it was created in World War II as a victory garden. We track the progress of new and seasoned gardeners alike during the 2008 growing season.

In our second visit to the Glover Park Community Garden in Northwest Washington we find some gardeners already reaping the rewards of their early season labors while others have been delayed by the unusually cold and wet spring.

Washington fans react to the new Nationals Park which opened on Sunday night.

Watch as today's cartoon by Tom Toles, the Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, takes shape.

Watch as today's cartoon by Tom Toles, the Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, takes shape.

On November 5, 2006, a fire broke out at 1846 Vernon Street NW in Washington D.C. The blaze came amid one of the city's fiercest battles betweeen tenants who wanted to stay in the building and a landlord who wanted them out so the property could be redeveloped. Responsibility for the blaze has never been determined and the arson probe is stalled.

In recent years, landlords in the District have emptied hundreds of apartment buildings and taken steps to convert them to condominiums. Tenants say they have been pushed out, sometimes by bad building conditions. Landlords say they have tenants offered move-out offers, and that tenants often report frivolous code violations for leverage in negotiations.

At a troubled Southeast apartment complex, tenants have reported no heat or gas, a falling ceiling, cracked walls, mice and a defective water heater in recent years. The owner says he's made repairs in recent months, but wants tenants to leave so that he can sell the building.

Richard Gere speaks about his Buddhist faith with On Faith's Sally Quinn.

Workers set up over a period of a few days for the 2008 Washington Auto Show at the Washington Convention Center. The Auto Show is open from Jan. 23-27.

Gail Jewel and her husband Richard Murphy spend approximately four hours decorating the exterior of their home in Sterling, Va.

Washington Post photographer Andrea Bruce recounts an encounter with a roadside bomb while embedded in Baqubah, Iraq. The June 2004 attack seriously injured two soldiers who were traveling in an unarmored Humvee.

Five years of war have battered the people of Iraq, but the country's medical system often is unable to care for them. Dozens of broken Iraqis arrive in Amman, Jordan, each month, seeking treatment from the Paris-based organization, Doctors Without Borders.

Americans in 24 states went to the polls on Feb. 5 to cast ballots in the largest ever "Super Tuesday" election. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, the two Democratic frontrunners, cast votes in their home states and then awaited the results. Both candidates scored important victories.

Voters in 24 states and American Samoa headed to the polls on Feb. 5 for the largest-ever "Super Tuesday" election. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) racked up crucial early primary victories from New York to California, while former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee won a series of contests in the South.

Former Redskins Art Monk and Darrell Green are elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as members of a six-person class.

Democratic and Republican presidential candidates campaign across the nation as voters go to the polls on Super Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008, when 24 states hold primaries, caucuses or state conventions.

The 66th annual Washington Auto Show is underway at the Walter E. Washington convention center. The theme for this year, Engineered for the Future, focuses on hybrid vehicles and innovations in automotive technology.

The 48 horses seized in Middleburg on Jan. 22 are now in a county shelter after a Loudoun judge ruled that they were being treated cruelly.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) won the Democratic South Carolina primary in a landslide Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008, attracting a biracial coalition and giving his candidacy a much-needed boost as the presidential race moves toward a 22-state showdown on Feb. 5.

The Australian-born actor of considerable charm and dramatic dexterity, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his role in 2005's "Brokeback Mountain," was found dead Jan. 22 in New York.

Democratic and Republican presidential candidates are on the road and campaigning hard as the campaign moves west and south.

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won Michigan's Republican presidential primary on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama participated in the MSNBC debate in Las Vegas.

As hosts of the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, Iowans are known for taking politics seriously in election years. Whether it's debating issues over morning coffee or turning out to see a candidate up close, the people of Iowa revel in their unique role as early vetters of presidential candidates.

Kenya plunged into crisis after the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki, which opposition leader Raila Odinga and his supporters claim was rigged. Since the vote on Dec. 27, more than 800 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced.

More and more watermen from Maryland's Eastern Shore are turning to other jobs to make their living. A small population of former watermen are turning to prison work as correctional officers.

Minibar, Jose Andres's six-seat counter on the second floor of Cafe Atlantico, which dazzles diners with dozens of small dishes.

Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema describes the world-class cuisine and elegance of CityZen, a newly appointed four-star Washington restaurant.

Come along with Baltimore-based psychologist Beth Williams-Plunkett on a museum tour designed to help girls ages 9 to 16 see past today's beauty standards. Williams-Plunkett, a specialist in treating eating disorders, put on a tour for The Post health section.

PANORAMA: The Howard Delicatessen has been on Georgia Avenue since the Guerra family opened the business in 1925. The deli, now run by Kenny Gilmore, draws faculty and students from Howard University and Banneker High School. Customers swear by the famous "Ghetto Sweet Iced Tea." Gilmore said the name may not be "politically correct," but it's made "with love."

Clifton "Skeeter" West Jr., 73, has operated B & W Stat Laboratory on Georgia Avenue for 42 years. The former president of the Lower Georgia Avenue Business Association said he and other merchants have been trying to improve the avenue for years.

PANORAMA: Park Place -- a $60 million project that will include 156 condominiums and townhouses, a restaurant and a Mocha Hut coffee house -- is considered to be the anchor that will spur Georgia Avenue's dramatic change. The project, which will be located atop the Georgia Avenue/Petworth Metro station, is currently under construction.

PANORAMA: The Cork 'N Bottle, one of a dozen liquor stores on Georgia Avenue, is going upscale to meet the demand of wealthier residents on upper Georgia. The store now has wine tastings on Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons.

PANORAMA: In the Education Center, a likeness of George Washington is shown taking the oath of office at his first inauguration.

PANORAMA: Artifacts from Washington's personal and professional life tell his story in the Donald W. Reynolds Museum.

PANORAMA: In Mount Vernon's new Donald W. Reynolds Education Center, a likeness of 19-year-old Washington is shown as a surveyor in the midst of the Virginia forests where he made his home. Gretchen M. Goodell, an assistant curator at George Washington's Mount Vernon, speaks about the Education Center.

PANORAMA: The Market Common, Clarendon includes high-end retailers, specialty shops, restaurants, apartments, townhomes and office space. The development, located on approximately ten acres, opened in November 2001.

Greg Cahill, owner of Whitlow's on Wilson, a Clarendon restaurant and bar, talks about increased competition and his expectations for the future. Cahill is also president of the Clarendon Alliance's board of directors.

David and Rebecca Tax own Clare and Don's Beach Shack in Clarendon, but rising rents are forcing them to move the restaurant. They have already made the Clarendon-to-Falls Church move with their Lazy Sundae ice cream shop. The brother-and-sister restaurateurs were interviewed as they renovate a Falls Church location for the new Clare and Don's.

Since its founding in 1987, the Palestinian organization Hamas, or the Islamic Resistance Movement, has stood firm in its opposition to Israel. Years of suicide bombings against Israel has led the West to consider Hamas a terrorist organization, a label the group carried into electoral politics with its victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006.

Osama bin Laden -- al Qaeda leader and alleged mastermind behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 -- has continued to wage his holy war from hiding, periodically appearing in video tapes calling upon Muslims to rise up against the United States.

Candidates and residents cast ballots in primary elections in Maryland and the District.

Although Richard Florida said developers "didn't violate" the Gallery Place neighborhood by "destroying its history," he said he would still probably get rid of the CVS drug store sign with Chinese characters. The George Mason University professor said street life, vibrancy and, most of all, diversity draw creative class workers.