"A drive from the district to Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia will reveal a region that is light-years away from what it was 30 years ago. When Dulles opened in 1962, it was seen by many as nothing more than a white elephant-too far from Washington (26 miles) and too big to be of any real use. Dulles may still be a less con-venient alternative to the charming and ever-so-close Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, but it is one of the fastest-growing airports in the country. It has become so crowded, in fact, that the passengers rushing through Eero Saarinen's soaring terminal overwhelm the once funky but now pokey mobile lounges. The once empty Dulles Toll Road, which stretches from the airport to the gargantuan Tysons Corner office and shopping complex on the Beltway, has seen changes galore as well. Lined with tech companies of all sorts, the toll road now serves as Fairfax County's high-tech main street. AOL (now AOL Time Warner), which grew up here, now occupies a large and sprawling headquarters in neighboring Loudoun County, Va., on the west side of Dulles. Other companies with their headquarters here include Nextel Communications, Deltek Systems, KPMG Consulting, MicroStrategy, TruSecure, Software AG, and Convera. Oracle, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Computer Associates International, and VeriSign have offices in Fairfax County. The city of McLean, Va.-now the residence of choice for republican bigwigs, as opposed to the democratic Bethesda, Md.-houses the massive and showy new headquarters for Gannett as well as a large broadband solution center run by KPMG Consulting." From a 4 page article on DC at... http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3d53ff231 Did you know the Govt employee's ratio has halved to 20%? Call off the Nuke's!