D.C. metro area overall (around $2,000 per month in National Landing compared to just over $1,400 in the metro area, according to the most recent American Community Survey data). Because the current residents of Crystal City, Pentagon City, and Potomac Yards are economically well off, even if they face rent increases in the near future, they can probably afford decent quality housing in other desirable neighborhoods.

But National Landing is close to more economically vulnerable communities

The area immediately surrounding National Landing, known as Arlandria—a hybrid of the two jurisdictions’ names—is an ethnically and economically diverse community (Figure 2). The northern half of Arlington County is quite affluent. The neighborhoods around Metro’s Orange Line stations consist of expensive, high-rise apartments and condominiums. North of the Metro line towards the Fairfax![Philip E. Cryer, as a mature professor and as a U.S. Naval officer.](dc150533f1){#F1}

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Philip E. Cryer was born in 1940 in El Paso, IL, where his father was a country doctor. The founding of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in the same year was an interesting coincidence, given his later career path in diabetes research and his leadership role in the ADA. An outstanding student, Cryer was valedictorian of his high school class in 1958 and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate (1962) of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He obtained his MD (Alpha Omega Alpha) from the same institution in 1965, with "highest distinction." Cryer received clinical and research training in endocrinology and metabolism under the direction of Drs. William H. Daughaday and David M. Kipnis