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The Daniela model includes a two-story family room open to the breakfast area and center-island kitchen. This level also has a study, a formal living room and a formal dining room. Upstairs are four bedrooms, two full baths and a laundry room.

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The center-island kitchen in the Daniela model has 42-inch cabinets, stainless steel appliances and recessed lighting.

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Richmond American Homes is building 20 single-family homes on half-acre sites at Townsend Manor in Clinton. The Daniela model, with 2,706 square feet, is priced from $359,990.

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Volunteer ships crew member Rich Watkins demonstrates a "ships whistle" which is used to give crew members commands on the Godspeed. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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A soldier keeps guard near burned bodies and a smoldering vehicle at the scene of Tuesday's explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia, when a car laden with explosives blew up in front of the Ministry of Education. "The casualties are mostly students and parents who were waiting for results of scholarships," the government said. (Associated Press)

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In this frame grab image taken from WCBS-TV, survivors cling to the bottom of a helicopter after it inverted following a crash in the East River in New York on Oct. 4, 2011. (Associated Press/WCBS-TV)

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Pakistanis mourn Oct. 4, 2011, at a local hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, the death of a relative killed in a firing incident. Suspected Sunni extremists opened fire on Shiite Muslims traveling through southwestern Pakistan, killing scores of people and wounding six others in the latest apparent sectarian attack to plague the country, police said. (Associated Press)

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett in Pittsburgh on Monday said his plan for the state's natural-gas boom would let counties impose a fee on drilling to help pay to regulate it and fix any environmental damage. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Dr. Richelle Cooper, an emergency room physician, testifies during the Conrad Murray involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Sept. 30, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Donated food piles up Oct. 2, 2011, in the kitchen area at the Occupy Wall Street rally in Zuccotti Park, a plaza near in New York City's financial center. (Associated Press)

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Storm victims keep themselves dry in a boat and on the steps of a flooded basketball court that serves as an evacuation center as flooding continues for the fourth day Sunday in Bulacan province north of Manila. Back-to-back typhoons left at least 59 people dead in the northern Philippines. (Associated Press)

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Residents evacuate to safer grounds as massive flooding continues for the second day Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011, at Calumpit township, Bulacan province north of Manila, Philippines. Typhoon Nalgae, the second typhoon in a week to hit the rain-soaked northern Philippines, added misery to thousands of people, some of whom are still perched on rooftops while several other Asian nations also reeled from flooding. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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Two men and their ultra-light plane hang from a Ferris wheel while two children sit in a carriage near the top of the ride at a country festival at Old Bar, Australia, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011. The four people were trapped in the tangled wreckage for hours after the plane crashed into the ride. (AP Photo/Carl Muxlow)

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A relative of a plane crash victim cries in Bahorok, Nort Sumatra, Friday, Sept 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

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Dan Lemieux, manager of the Washington Monument inspection project, holds a 10-pound, dictionary-size chunk of marble his team removed from the monument while checking for damage from the Aug. 23 earthquake. (Associated Press)

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Emma Cardini, a civil engineer from Melrose, Mass., right, and a member of the difficult access team, dangles by a rope more than 500 feet above ground, with co-worker Daniel Gach, as they inspect the exterior of the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, Thursday Sept. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Gordon H. Smith, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, says an FCC proposal to give broadcasters' spectrum space to wireless and broadband competitors would be "catastrophic" for his industry. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)

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The center-island kitchen in the Sycamore model features 42-inch cabinets and stainless steel appliances.

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Stanley Martin Homes is building 209 single-family homes on half-acre sites at Selma Estates in Leesburg. The Sycamore model, with 3,281 to 6,448 square feet, is priced from $549,990.

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Dan Gach (left), Erik Shon (center) and Emma Cardini inspect the exterior of the Washington Monument for damage caused by last month's earthquake on Sept. 28, 2011. (Associated Press)