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M/I Homes is building 47 town homes at Station View in Ashburn. The homes have 2,329 to 2,350 finished square feet, with base prices from $389,990 to $394,990.
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The center-island kitchen in the Griffin model at the Legacy at Manning Village has an adjacent breakfast area.
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**FILE** The string of islands known as Senkaku islands in Japanese, and Diaoyu in Chinese, are seen here Sept. 29, 2010. Relations between China and Japan were strained when a Chinese fishing boat collided with Japanese patrol vessels earlier that month near the islands in the East China Sea that are claimed by both countries as well as Taiwan. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** The 2011 Chevrolet Volt debuts Dec. 2, 2009, at the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles. (Associated Press)
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A scuba diver makes his way into a flooded cabin of the grounded Costa Concordia cruise ship off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, in this undated photo. (AP Photo/Italian navy GOS)
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D.C. firefighters walk out of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Northwest on Tuesday after a speech by fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe (Barbara Salisbury/THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
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Washington Redskins safety Laron Landry missed most of the 2011 season with an Achilles tendon injury. (AP Photo)
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A Boeing 787 lands at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kan., on Friday. Boeing is building its 787 Dreamliner to use 20 percent less fuel than the jet it replaces. (Associated Press)
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Megaupload.com founder, former CEO and current chief innovation officer of Megaupload.com Kim Dotcom (also known as Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor) appears Jan. 20, 2012, in North Shore District Court in Auckland, New Zealand. (Associated Press)
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Residents walk through the debris of their neighborhood after a possible tornado ripped through the Trussville, Ala., area in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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Fuel-spill experts work on the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Carolina Hurricanes right wing Jiri Tlusty celebrates with teammates Tim Brent and Eric Staalafter scoring a goal against the Washington Capitals during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. The Hurricanes won 3-0. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)
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Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Justin Faulk battles with Washington Capitals center Cody Eakin for the puck during the first period in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)
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David Oyelowo portrays Joe "Lightning" Little in a scene from the film "Red Tails." (Associated Press/20th Century Fox)
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Dan Everett clears snow on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 after a storm dumped more than a foot of snow in the Helena, Mont. area. A winter storm that dumped a foot of snow on Helena and Missoula and nearly that much in the Billings area triggered avalanche warnings near Yellowstone National Park while colder air in northern parts of the state sent temperatures and wind chills plummeting below zero. (AP Photo/The Independent Record, Eliza Wiley)
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Firefighters wait for water Jan. 19, 2012, before attacking an outbuilding adjacent to a home in Pleasant Valley, Nev. Winds gusting up to 82 mph pushed a fast-moving brush fire south of Reno out of control as it burned several homes, threatened dozens more and forced more than 4,000 people to evacuate their neighborhoods. (Associated Press/The Reno Gazette-Journal)
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U.S. soldiers with the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stand guard at the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. In a separate incident, a senior U.S. defense official says all six reported killed in the crash of a U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan were U.S. Marines. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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Toll Bros. is building 62 town homes and single-family homes on sites of one-eighth to one-quarter acre at Shady Grove Crossing in Derwood. The Crestbrooke model, with 3,170 square feet, is priced from $702,995.
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Left wing Matt Hendricks and the Capitals largely have avoided crash landings at home, but it's a different story when Washington plays away from Verizon Center. (Associated Press)
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An early-morning walk in the snow is unusual for residents in Vancouver, Wash. Some residents enjoyed the snowfall in a region where heavy accumulations are rare, while emergency management officials worried about potential flooding. (Associated Press)
