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The 327-cubic-inch V-8 isn't the biggest engine, but it's rock-solid. (Bill O'Brien/The Washington Times)
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Beazer Homes is building 58 town houses at Brighton Place in Capitol Heights. The Chandler model has approximately 1,800 finished square feet, with base prices from the mid-$200,000s.
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Residents of Kamaishi, Japan, walk away with personal items that they recovered from their damaged home in the aftermath of Friday's tsunami. Two search-and-rescue teams from the United States and one from the United Kingdom with a total of about 220 personnel searched the town for survivors on Thursday, March 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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Emperor Akihito tried to calm the nerves of his nation's people during a televised address on Wednesday. He expressed his condolences to those who have suffered since the earthquake and tsunami and urged them not to give up. (Associated Press)
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HOMELESS: A woman walks around the devastated area in snowy and cold Ofunato in northern Japan where her home used to be before the earthquake and tsunami on Wednesday. Emperor Akihito appeared on TV across Japan in a prerecorded message that lasted about six minutes. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)
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A woman talks with the driver before boarding a bus in Manhattan's Chinatown for a trip to a Connecticut casino. Her trip Tuesday was canceled after a fatal crash, but thousands of Chinese New Yorkers take buses every day to gamble in nearby states. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2011 file photo, U.S. singer Ne-Yo performs during his concert in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, file)
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People wearing surgical masks leave Shimbashi train station in Tokyo Wednesday, March 16, 2011. The nuclear crisis has triggered international alarm and partly overshadowed the human tragedy caused by Friday's earthquake and the subsequent tsunami. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Japan Self-Defense Force members search for survivors of the earthquake and tsunami Tuesday in the devastated city of Ofunato, Japan. (Associated Press)
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan discusses the disaster at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Tuesday. Mr. Kan said the risks of further radiation leaks are increasing after an explosion at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima. (Bloomberg)
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Mason firefighters work at the home of Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Antwan Odom after a fire early Tuesday, March 15, 2011 caused extensive damage at the home, according to Warren County emergency communication reports. Fire officials in the city of Mason north of Cincinnati say the defensive end and his family were out of town at the time. (AP Photo/Cincinatti Enquirer, Carrie Cochran) MANDATORY CREDIT
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Villagers walk across sea of debris after they visited their homes, which were destroyed by Friday's tsunami, in Minamisanriku, in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture, on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Japan's strongest recorded earthquake and subsequent tsunami slammed the country's eastern coast. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
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A member of a British rescue team searches for victims in the tsunami-hit area in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, four days after the disastrous earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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People walk along a road between the rubble of destroyed buildings in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan on Monday. (Yomiuri Shimbun via Associated Press)
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An evacuee searches name lists for friends in Soma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on Monday. On top of the losses of family and friends, evacuees are now faced with the fears of radiation contamination from damaged nuclear facilities. (Associated Press)
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Evacuees gather around candlelight at a blacked-out shelter in Yamamoto, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan on Monday, three days after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)
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RECOVERY: Japan's Ground Defense Force searches for victims of the disaster with a backdrop of ships that were slammed into buildings. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)
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A man checks out a stock price board in Tokyo on Monday as the stock market plunged on its first business day after an earthquake and tsunami laid waste to cities along Japan's northeast coast. (Associated Press)
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Investigators leave the woods at the scene of a shootout at a salvage yard in southwestern Virginia. A gunman opened fire on sheriff's deputies responding to a robbery report at the salvage yard on Sunday, killing two and injuring two others before being killed two hours later after being found nearby. (Associated Press)
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Rescue workers carry an elderly man found alive by tsunami survivors after he was buried under rubble along a slope of a hill in Minamisanriku in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's northeast coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Hiroaki Ohno)
