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Michael Harris Homes is building 31 single-family homes on quarter-acre sites at Chestnut Lodge in Rockville. The Woodlawn model, with 3,250 square feet, is priced from $944,990.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A law enforcement official photographs an SUV that suddenly accelerated out of control and struck and killed three walking-club members waiting on a sidewalk for friends in Voorheesville, N.Y., on Wednesday.
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American Apparel shows signs of damage on Market street in Manchester city centre, England, Tuesday Aug. 9, 2011. (AP Photo / Dave Thompson / PA)
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Smoke rises from a burning Sony distribution center reportedly set alight by rioters, in Enfield, north London. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)
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Firefighters fight a blaze at the Sony warehouse that was allegedly set alight, early Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011 during unrest in Enfield, North London. Violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country's most serious unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
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Somali refugees carry their donated rations of food aid on Aug. 7, 2011, in the eastern Kenyan village of Hagadera near Dadaab, 60 miles from the Somali border. (Associated Press)
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Shop fronts are seen damaged in Enfield area of north London on Aug. 8, 2011, following restive protests overnight. Renewed unrest erupted on London streets amid community anger over a fatal police shooting. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Police vehicles drive past a fire in a building in Tottenham, north London, on Sunday after a demonstration against the death of a local man turned violent, and cars and shops were set on fire. Disturbances subsequently broke out in Enfield, about 5 miles north of Tottenham.
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Firefighters look at a burned-out building in Tottenham, north London, still being damped down after a demonstration against the death of a local man turned violent and cars and shops were set ablaze. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Police vehicles drive past a fire in a building in Tottenham, north London, on Sunday after a demonstration against the death of a local man turned violent and cars and shops were set on fire. Eight officers were hospitalized during the riots.
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In this photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011, fishing boats are seen parked in the Shenjiamen Harbor in Zhoushan in east China's Zhejiang province. China warned residents and alerted emergency relief centers Friday to prepare for Typhoon Muifa to hit the country's heavily populated eastern coast. (AP Photo)
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A child from southern Somalia, is treated for malnourishment in Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, Aug. 5, 2011. The United Nations predicts famine will probably spread to all of southern Somalia within a month and force tens of thousands more people to flee into the capital of Mogadishu. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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Maryland offensive lineman Pete DeSouza was cleared for contact afterr suffereing two broken legs in a scooter accident in October. (Maryland Athletics)
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The deadly bullet train crash in China's Zhejiang province on July 23 was the result of a lightning strike and malfunction of a monitoring device, according to government authorities.
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K. Hovnanian Homes is building 32 single-family homes on half-acre sites at Raspberry Falls in Leesburg. The Truman model, with 4,283 square feet, is priced from $634,990.
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The main level features a library, the kitchen and a family room across the back of the house. Upstairs are four bedrooms, each with a walk-in closet, a playroom and a laundry room.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS This artist's rendering shows a simulation of a collision between the moon and a companion moon about 4 billion years ago. Earth once had a second moon until it made the fatal mistake of smacking the moon in what some are calling the "big splat," astronomers now theorize.
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This image taken at 2:32 a.m. EDT on Aug. 3, 2011, shows Tropical Storm Emily. The storm brushed past Puerto Rico and set its sights on the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where more than 630,000 people are still without shelter after last year's earthquake. (Associated Press/NASA)
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**FILE** President Obama lays a wreath at the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York on May 5, 2011. (Associated Press)
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A former golf course is now a refugee camp for people displaced by an earthquake 18 months ago. More than 600,000 people still live in settlement camps. (Associated Press)
