BALTIMORE – In February 2006, Sawsan Al-Sayyab walked outside her home in Baghdad to find the streets covered in debris, burning mosques polluting the air with smoke and ash, and her roof crumbling above her head

WASHINGTON – Mauricio Barreiro didn’t speak “a lick of English” when he first came to America from Colombia at age 5

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LANGLEY PARK – Where horses once roamed open farmland, now discount furniture stores, Peruvian chicken joints and 95,000 vehicles a day consume the area around New Hampshire Avenue and University Boulevard

LANGLEY PARK – In February 2009, Erwin Mack was running behind schedule

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WASHINGTON – National Census Day is Thursday — the federal government’s reminder to get those census forms in post haste and save money

WASHINGTON – There are a number of identifiers that can distinguish the towns of Bladensburg from Chevy Chase — racial makeup, income and poverty levels — but none more timely than their census mail-back rates

WASHINGTON – Natasha Spivack’s basement is a portal to another time

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