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Photo: Miles Davis

By | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Miles Davis, trumpet player and pioneer of cool jazz and modal jazz styles.

Photo: Ballston MU - Hechts

By Emma Norvell | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

A Hecht's department store near the Ballston MU station.

Photo: Breast Cancer Speaker2

By Caitlin Garlow | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Judy Macon of Suburban Hospital answers questions about breast cancer during an assembly on Feb. 16.

Photo: East Falls Church Station

By Emma Norvell | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

East Falls Church Metro Station

Jazz musician Nat King Cole, like many great black entertainers, was first introduced to music in church. Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Coles on March 17, 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama to Reverend Edward James Coles, Sr. and Perlina Adams Coles. Cole was one of 13 children, but only five of his sisters and brothers grew up to be adults.

Photo: Empty Metro Station

By Emma Norvell | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Photo: Dunn Loring Station

By Emma Norvell | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Metro's Dunn Loring Station

Photo: Oxycontin

By Elena Pinsky | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

OxyContin, a drug to which some Blair students have become addicted.

Photo: Metro - Top Video

By Emma Norvell | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Blair swimming drops to Division II

By Kristina Yang | Feb. 16, 2005, midnight | In Print »

FEB. 12, MONTGOMERY AQUATIC CENTER-- For the last few seasons, the Blair swim team has teetered on the edge between Division I and Division II, its place in the former secured mostly by the strength of its boys' team. After narrowly escaping demotion to Division II at the end of last season after the boys finished fifth and the girls placed sixth at Divisionals (Watkins Mill, with its sixth-place boys and fifth-place girls, went down instead), the Blazers had hoped to avoid demotion once again this year because of an especially strong boys lineup.