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Felix Baumgartner, in pressurized suit on platform at left, prepares to enter the balloon capsule in Roswell, N.M. on Oct. 9, 2012. Baumgartner will attempt to break the speed of sound with his own body by jumping from the space capsule lifted by a 30 million cubic foot helium balloon. (Associated Press)
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Delouise Guerra of Denver holds a 1975 photo of her younger brother, 18-year-old Marine PFC James Jacques, who was killed in a helicopter crash near Cambodia in 1975. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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Washington Nationals relief pitcher Sean Burnett walks off the mound after being pulled during the eighth inning. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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Atlanta Falcons free safety Thomas DeCoud (28) intercepts a pass in front of Washington Redskins wide receiver Santana Moss (89) to seal a Falcon victory at FedEx Field, Landover, Md., Oct. 10, 2012. (Preston Keres/Special to The Washington Times)
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Washington Redskins inside linebacker Perry Riley (56), center, and Washington Redskins free safety Madieu Williams (41) celebrate a fumble recovery in the second quarter as the Washington Redskins play the Atlanta Falcons at FedEx Field, Landover, Md., Sunday, October 7, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Washington Redskins running back Alfred Morris (46) runs past Atlanta Falcons free safety Thomas DeCoud (28) for a first down in the first quarter on his way to 115 yard game at FedEx Field, Landover, Md., Oct. 10, 2012. (Preston Keres/Special to The Washington Times)
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Family members of Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie participate in Thursday Oct. 4, 2012 candlelight ceremony in Naco, Arizona. Nearly 100 people gathered in Naco for a candlelight vigil for a fallen Border Patrol agent. Ivie and two other border agents were fired upon Tuesday in a rugged hilly area about five miles (eight kilometers) north of the border near Bisbee, Ariz., as they responded to an alarm that was triggered on one of the sensors that the government has installed along the border. (AP Photo/Beatrice Richardson, Sierra Vista Herald)
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Dr. Madeleine Biondolillo, director of the Massachusetts Bureau of Healthcare Safety, answers a reporter's question on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, during a news conference in Boston regarding a meningitis outbreak linked to medicine from a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy. At rear left is Dr. Al DeMaria, the state epidemiologist. (Associated Press)
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Dr. Lucy Wilson, with fellow Maryland public health official Josh Sharfstein, holds a news conference to explain response efforts to an outbreak of meningitis that may be linked to steroid injections. (Associated Press)
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Kathy Stewart, of Enfield, Ill., looks at a wrecked house as her tour bus passes through the 9th Ward part of New Orleans. Residents and city officials are pushing back against tour companies that take out-of-towners into the Lower 9th Ward, the neighborhood devastated by Hurricane Katrina flooding. (Associated Press)
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The Jasmine model at Longacre Village in Camden, Del., is one of six single-family models offered by K. Hovnanian Homes. It has from 1,866 to 2,500 square feet and is priced from $239,900.
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Bozzuto Homes is building seven single-family homes at Uptown at Murray Hill in Annapolis. The two home styles currently available have 2,324 to 2,544 finished square feet, with base prices from $679,990 to $749,990.
