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The National Zoo announces that its popular panda cub, Tai Shan, will be sent to China at the beginning of 2010.
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Audubon Naturalist Society and Habitat for Humanity team up to build rain gardens that will filter storm water on new developments they are building in northeast D.C. The rain gardens cut down storm water runoff by about 70 percent, according to one study.
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President Obama and the first family help to illuminate tree on Ellipse, south of the White House grounds.
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Schools in the D.C. area are being pushed by parents to craft programs for an increasing number of students with Asperger syndrome or other forms of mild autism. People with the condition have difficulty interpreting and adjusting to social cues and situations.
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They are not an ordinary pair, a gray-haired man of 66 who is battling lung cancer and an ebullient sixth grader who loves animals and Harry Potter. But they have been a family of two since Keke was an infant.
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Smith Island, once a home to watermen and crabbers, is looking to a new industry to help sustain itself: Baking Maryland's official state dessert.
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About 1,000 mourners gathered at the Washington Hebrew Congregation in Northwest Washington to remember the former Wizards owner.
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Venturing out before sun rise, Washington area shoppers lined up for hours to get the best deals on laptops, flat-screen televisions and other retails goods the day after Thanksgiving.
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Kenny Farnsworth called 911 hundreds of times -- sometimes daily. Was he part of the health-care problem, or a result of it?
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In July, Quantico welcomed 310 officer candidates for training, some for whom this always was the goal, some looking to find their direction in life. Only 249 would remain by summer's end.
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In the search for a better life for her children, single mother Daverena White took a chance on a $698,000 home. But circumstances soured from there. Her story is one of an America in the midst of a relentless real estate boom.
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The Capitals end their three-game skid with a 2-0 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on a night where Alex Ovechkin is issued a game misconduct.
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Cleveland Park's historical Tregaron Estate opens to the public after decades of battles between private owners and the forest's neighbors.
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Multiple Christmas trees, including the official one for the White House's Blue Room, started their journey on a farm in West Virginia.
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A funeral was held Friday for the 9-year-old shot in his Columbia Heights apartment.
The Chesapeake Bay Cleanup
After a 25 year government-led effort to cleanup the Chesapeake Bay, it has not produced the results it had promised.
After a 25 year government-led effort to cleanup the Chesapeake Bay, it has not produced the results it had promised.
Who Killed Chandra Levy?
The murder of Chandra Levy remains Washington's most famous unsolved crime. Many people, including police and prosecutors, suspected that a congressman was responsible. But a year-long Washington Post investigation reveals new information showing that critical leads were ignored and the killer may never be brought to justice.
The murder of Chandra Levy remains Washington's most famous unsolved crime. Many people, including police and prosecutors, suspected that a congressman was responsible. But a year-long Washington Post investigation reveals new information showing that critical leads were ignored and the killer may never be brought to justice.
Newseum
An interactive tour of the news history museum that opens April 11 in its new, $450 million building on Pennsylvania Avenue.
An interactive tour of the news history museum that opens April 11 in its new, $450 million building on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Sacred Ground: The Building of the Pentagon Memorial
INTERACTIVE | Videos and photo galleries of the building, design, and dedication of the Pentagon Memorial.
INTERACTIVE | Videos and photo galleries of the building, design, and dedication of the Pentagon Memorial.
Interactive: D.C. 1791 to Today
How Washington Became Washington.
How Washington Became Washington.
Modern Disciples
Diversity is a signature of the D.C. region's more than 1 million Catholics, for whom Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Washington is a monumental event. These nine active Catholics, from varying walks of life, discuss their faith and the issues they hope Pope Benedict will address during his historic trip.
Diversity is a signature of the D.C. region's more than 1 million Catholics, for whom Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Washington is a monumental event. These nine active Catholics, from varying walks of life, discuss their faith and the issues they hope Pope Benedict will address during his historic trip.
MULTIMEDIA
A real estate boom that transformed neighborhoods across D.C. also took a human toll: bitter fights erupted as landlords drove hundreds of tenants out so the buildings could convert to condominiums.
A real estate boom that transformed neighborhoods across D.C. also took a human toll: bitter fights erupted as landlords drove hundreds of tenants out so the buildings could convert to condominiums.
MULTIMEDIA: In Mining Country, Drugs Cut a Swath - Rising coal prices have meant jobs and money for Southwestern Virginia's mining towns. But a dark cloud hangs over those communities too: prescription painkiller abuse.
Photos: Stepping Forward, Falling Back
There is a fierce struggle going on at Coolidge to overcome years of dysfunction and decline. But despite a new spirit of reform in the air, it remains to be seen whether D.C. schools can make improvements that will last.
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A New Home Away From Home
During a day-long move involving the transfer of 79 inpatients, Children's National Medical Center unveiled a glossy new $75 million inpatient wing designed to make hospitalization more homelike.
During a day-long move involving the transfer of 79 inpatients, Children's National Medical Center unveiled a glossy new $75 million inpatient wing designed to make hospitalization more homelike.
PANORAMA: Dog Parks for People - Area dog parks like the the Fort Ethan Allen Community Canine Area in north Arlington have become social scenes not only for dogs, but for people, especially baby boomers, as well. Sherrard Foster and her golden retriever Abby visit the park nearly every day, with Abby reaping the benefits of exercise and Foster gaining a sense of community through the friends she has made there.
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A selection of the best images by Post photographers this year.
Featuring the best work by multimedia journalists and interactive designers at washingtonpost.com.
Five years after the Taliban fled Kabul under the cover of night, signs of fragile but real progress abound. Simple pleasures once prohibited -- song and dance, the flutter of kites -- have resumed. And for the first time, women and girls once repressed under Taliban rule are able to take better control of their lives and their futures.
The Aswan High Dam is the starting point for a 690-mile journey along the river, through Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country.
Alberto Korda was born Alberto Diaz Gutierrez in Havana in 1928, the same year as Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. Korda captured the celebrated photograph of Che during his work as personal photographer to Fidel Castro. In the book 'Cuba by Korda,' available Sept. 15, 2006, rare photos of Fidel Castro and Guevara, as well as the stories behind the photographs.
In the 25 years of the epidemic, treatment has improved, but the issues of social isolation, and, often, economic instability remain.