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The Piedmont model at Hopewell's Landing has a center-island kitchen that opens to the adjacent breakfast area and the family room.
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D.R. Horton is building 263 single-family homes at Hopewell's Landing in Gainesville. The Piedmont model, with 2,712 square feet, is priced from $384,990.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS The 100-mile-wide storm moved like a giant wave, the dust roiling as it approached at up to 60 mph. Visibility dropped to zero, the sky turned nearly black, trees blew sideways, and Phoenix skyscrapers became invisible.
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Somalis carrying their belongings wait outside a camp for displaced people in the capital city of Mogadishu after leaving their homes in southern Somalia to seek help. Thousands of people have arrived in Mogadishu over the past two weeks and the number is increasing daily. The worst drought in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition. Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda all have drought-stricken areas and the situation is deteriorating, (Associated Press)
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A malnourished Abdi Ibrahim is comforted by his wife, Duba Dagane, as he lies on his bed in Lagbogal, Kenya. Parts of Kenya and Somalia are experiencing pre-famine conditions, the United Nations has said. More than 10 million people are affected in five African nations.
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People mourn the death of their family member who was shot dead in Karachi, Pakistan, on July 6, 2011. Renewed violence in Karachi killed at least 10 people and left many injured, police said. (Associated Press)
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Charles Tiger is pictured during an interview in his FEMA trailer home in Little Axe, Okla., Thursday, June 16, 2011. Nearly six years after the hurricane, the mobile homes that became a symbol of the government's failed response are finally being put to good use. FEMA has quietly given many of them away to American Indian tribes that are in desperate need of affordable housing. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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A Russian-built Ilyushin-76 cargo plane of Silk Way Airlines, similar to the aircraft shown here, crashed into a mountaintop in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, July 6, 2011, officials said. The nine crew members on board are feared dead. (AP Photo/www.silkway-airlines.com)
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Cleanup crews clear oil from alongside the Yellowstone River in Laurel, Mont., on Tuesday, July 5, 2011. The scenic waterway has risen above flood stage, raising fears that the surging currents will further spread crude from the previous week's oil spill. (Associated Press)
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A Mexican police helicopter searches the waters of the Gulf of California for survivors of a capsized fishing boat near San Felipe, Mexico, on Monday, July 4, 2011. A U.S. tourist died after the fishing boat capsized Sunday in an unexpected storm, and seven Americans still are missing. (AP Photo/Francisco Vega)
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A Japanese soldier works in a sewer in an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Taro. Residents of the town held their annual evacuation drill on March 3 — eerily, just eight days earlier. March 3 is the anniversary of a 1933 tsunami. (Associated Press)
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The control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport includes flight progress strips. The Federal Aviation Administration is creating a revolutionary air traffic system, but various factors have delayed the program. (Associated Press)
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Flames rise near El-Arish, Egypt, 30 miles from the border with Israel, on Monday, July 4, 2011, after unidentified assailants blew up the Egyptian pipeline that carries gas to Israel and Jordan. (AP Photo)
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** FILE ** Kindergartners in Hyangsan, North Korea, eat food donated by the World Food Program in October 2006. (AP Photo/World Food Program)
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Heavy rain falls over Copenhagen on Saturday, July 2, 2011, as the deluge threatens to overwhelm parts of the city. The rain caused huge traffic problems and flooded hundreds of homes. (AP Photo/POLFOTO, Mogens Flindt)
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An Egyptian spice dealer displays fenugreek seeds at his shop in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, June 30, 2011. Health experts warned Thursday there could be more E. coli cases across Europe and elsewhere after finding recent deadly outbreaks were probably linked to contaminated Egyptian fenugreek seeds. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Lennar is building 258 town homes at Fieldstone in Laurel near Arundel Mills mall. The Kentwell model has 2,125 finished square feet, with base prices from $339,990 to $355,990.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Firefighters from Apple Valley, Calif., battle the Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos, N.M., on Wednesday. The blaze had grown to more than 108 square miles by Wednesday morning, but it was being held back from the southern boundary of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and its above-ground storage area.
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The Washington Nationals expect their game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night to go on as usual after an earthquake shook the area. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Firefighters from Apple Valley, Calif., battle the Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos, N.M., on Wednesday. The blaze had grown to more than 108 square miles by Wednesday morning, but it was being held back from the southern boundary of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and its above-ground storage area.
