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The Bornquist model at Bayside is priced from $339,990 and has 2,223 square feet. NV Homes is building approximately 1,400 town homes and single-family homes in the Delaware community.

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D.R. Horton is building 86 single-family homes on 6,000-square-foot sites at Brinkley Manor in New Market. The Monroe model, with 2,898 square feet, is priced from $339,990.

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President Barack Obama pauses after laying a wreath at the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York, Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Barack Obama pauses after laying a wreath at the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York, Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Barack Obama lays a wreath at the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York, Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

President Barack Obama meets with police officers and first responders at the First Precinct before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York, Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Barack Obama meets with police officers and first responders at the First Precinct before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York, Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, and others, meets with police officers and first responders at the First Precinct before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York, Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Barack Obama pauses after laying a wreath at the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York, Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Obama pauses Thursday after laying a wreath at the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York. (Associated Press)

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President Obama, accompanied by Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and others, meets Thursday with police officers and first responders at the First Precinct before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York. (Associated Press)

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President Obama, accompanied by Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and others, meets Thursday with police officers and first responders at the First Precinct before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York. (Associated Press)

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President Obama, accompanied by Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and others, meets Thursday with police officers and first responders at the First Precinct before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York. (Associated Press)

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Scott Carpenter, one of two surviving Mercury Seven astronauts, speaks during a dedication ceremony of the Mercury Project/Messenger Mission stamp that was unveiled on Wednesday, May 4, 2011, at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Florida Today, Michael R. Brown)

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President Obama and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (right) meet Thursday with firefighters and first responders at Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York. (Associated Press)

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This April 10 image taken by T-Hawk drone aircraft and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., shows the damaged reactor building of Unit 1 of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Japan's nuclear safety agency said workers entered the reactor building of Unit 1 at the nuclear complex for the first time Thursday after the March 11 earthquake. (Associated Press/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin dives for the puck in front of the Lightning's Teddy Purcell during the second period of Game 4. The Lightning won 5-3 to sweep the Eastern Conference semifinal series.

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Second-year nursing student Deborah Brown of Bryans Road, Md., checks the blood glucose level of another nursing student during class at Everett. All students taking medical professional classes wear scrubs to prepare them for their professional careers.

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DREW ANGERER/THE WASHINGTON TIMES A pile of splintered wood and debris is all that remains of a home on Ashley Drive in Rockville that was destroyed by a natural gas explosion. The tenants, who recently moved into the house, survived but were in serious condition after being blasted into the yard.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Homes along the Mississippi River in Paducah, Ky., are inundated as a result of record flooding. Residents downstream of Missouri's Birds Point levee were evacuated after the Army Corps of Engineers ordered the breach of a levee.