Pick 'em.(Up Front)(Brief article)

WASHINGTON IS A CITY OF EXOTIC AND PARTICULAR professions. If you live in AU Park or Chevy Chase-D.C. or any of the other better neighborhoods in what is sometimes impolitely called Upper Cancasia, you will very likely find that your neighbors include: an engineer at the Bureau of Land Management, an education Ph.D. at--no, not the Education Department--the Department of Agriculture, and a cartographer at FEMA, who, unlike his old boss, probably is indeed doing a heckuva job.

A rung or two above them is another class of toilers, with work equally exotic: the people who spend ...

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