<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Fairfax</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/va/fairfax?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><description>Fairfax</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Condolences  Pour In for Va.  Crash Victims]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12256-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12256-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When they heard about Monday's fatal school bus crash in Arlington, the students  --  from John Adams and James K. Polk elementary schools  --  wanted to help.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gathering Aims to Forge Tysons Vision]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10721-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10721-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The campaign to transform Tysons Corner from a sprawling suburban crossroads into a more traditional urban center began in earnest yesterday, as more than 200 Northern Virginia business and civic leaders convened to discuss how best to reshape the commercial hub.]]></description><author> Peter Whoriskey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Football Players Warm to New Goal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7956-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7956-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The seniors on a Fairfax County high school football team got a glimpse yesterday of their cameo appearance in a soon-to-be-released television  film, but their thoughts were not of stardom or the silver screen. These players were dreaming about saving the nation's wetlands.]]></description><author> Maria Glod</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawmaker Decries GMU Health Fair, 'Moral Depravity']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7992-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7992-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The clean-cut young man taking detailed notes stood out at a meeting of Pro-Choice Patriots at George Mason University on Wednesday night as the mostly female group discussed plans for its campuswide sexuality and health fair planned for next week.]]></description><author> Annie Gowen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lt. Gov. Candidates Spar on Taxes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8305-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8305-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The two Republicans seeking their party's nomination for Virginia's lieutenant governor exchanged biting words last night at a Manassas forum, clashing over the roles of state government and taxes.]]></description><author> Rosalind S. Helderman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Group Plans Urban Development for Tysons]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7443-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7443-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Developers and civic leaders hope to have Tysons Corner expand beyond existing limits and become more like a traditional downtown.]]></description><author> Peter Whoriskey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairfax Community Calendar]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5334-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5334-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thursday 21 <br>   HERNDON TASTE OF THE TOWN,  sample food and beverages from more than 20 local restaurants; plus live entertainment, a silent auction and a live auction; sponsored by the Council for the Arts of Herndon, 5:30-9 p.m., Worldgate Centre, Worldgate Drive. $20. 703-689-9535.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Picking a School Is a Multiple-Choice Question]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1132-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1132-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Washington area parents enjoy an increasing choice of schools for their children. There are regular public schools, magnet public schools, charter public schools and, for parents with enough money, private schools, some faith-oriented and some not.]]></description><author> Jay Mathews</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suburbs With a Sense of Place and Purpose]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5511-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5511-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ralph Rosenbaum chose to live in Old Town Alexandria because there was just something about the feel of the place:  the narrow streets, the town square, the brick and clapboard rowhouses pleasantly askew with age. And everywhere, there was a sense of history, as if the 18th-century town slept easily with the ghosts of its past.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Athletic Connection]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5244-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5244-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  You couldn't have asked for a more perfect day. Not a  cloud in the deep blue sky. Warm  --  but not too warm  --   and trees blooming like crazy. The day defined spring.]]></description><author> Timothy Dwyer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rep. Davis Intervenes on Growth in Fairfax]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6031-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6031-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Rep. Thomas M. Davis III said he will propose legislation to scale back a massive development planned next to the Vienna Metro station, a project near his own neighborhood.]]></description><author> Lisa Rein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6275-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6275-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Lockheed Martin of Bethesda won a $90 million contract from the Army for continued production of air-to-ground missiles, extending the contract into 2007. Lockheed will produce 900 laser-guided Hellfire missiles used against enclosed structures and 180 anti-tank missiles used against armored targets. Separately, Lockheed and three other contractors were selected by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to compete for application development and maintenance services work awarded under a 10-year, $554 million contract intended to modernize and maintain the FDIC's corporate organization. Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM and Pragmatics were the other three contractors selected.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proud Past, Bright Future Rub Elbows in Today's Loudoun]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3513-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3513-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If it were anywhere but Loudoun County, the scene would have been truly bizarre. Here, where reminders are everywhere that marching suburbia has only overlaid and not replaced a rural and older world, the sight was merely surreal.]]></description><author> Rosalind S. Helderman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Wide World of Sports]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5596-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5596-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ At MCI Center and RFK Stadium in Washington, and at FedEx Field in Landover, sports fans can watch professional basketball, hockey, football, soccer and baseball.]]></description><author> Jake Schaller</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pr. William Budget Passed With 16-Cent Cut in Tax Rate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3165-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3165-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Prince William County homeowners will see the lowest real estate tax rate in nearly four decades, but they will still pay on average $128 more in property taxes this year under the $765 million budget the Board of County Supervisors approved in a 6 to 2 vote yesterday.]]></description><author> Nikita Stewart</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common Worst Nightmare Links School Bus Drivers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3039-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3039-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In her 11 years driving a school bus, Linda Farbry woke every morning and said the same prayer: "Please, don't let anything happen to my bus today." She used to think: You pass safety training. You check your mirrors. You drive carefully. But anything can happen. That driver, bloodied and screaming by the side of the road in Arlington on Monday? That could have been you.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Bus Stop, Holding On a Bit Tighter]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2458-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2458-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Before Gisela Zuniga shepherded her 4-year-old daughter, Noelia, onto a bus heading to Arlington County's Hoffman-Boston Elementary School yesterday morning, she planted a kiss on the little girl's cheek and patted her shoulder.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bus Wreckage Is Searched for Answers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2459-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2459-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Investigators have ruled out major mechanical problems but came no closer to determining what caused an Arlington County school bus and a trash truck to collide.]]></description><author> Leef Smith and David Cho</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3112-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3112-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[     SRA International , a Fairfax provider of information technology services to the federal government, agreed to acquire Touchstone Consulting Group, a privately held management consulting firm in the District. Terms of the all-cash deal weren't disclosed. SRA expects to complete the transaction by the end of April. Founded in 1991, Touchstone provides strategic consulting services to customers in the federal government, including the Homeland Security and  Defense departments, intelligence agencies and the Office of Management and Budget. Touchstone has 135 employees, about 60 percent of whom hold security clearances. Revenue for the year ended March 31 was about $27 million. SRA reported 2004 sales of $615.8 million.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Park Authority Reduces Staff, Rethinks Role]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64016-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64016-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/va/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:59:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Citing declining revenue and a need to reorganize financial resources, officials with the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority have laid off three employees and set about redefining its mission.]]></description><author> Leef Smith</author></item></channel></rss>