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K. Hovnanian is building 124 town-home-style condominiums at the Residences at Dulles Parkway Center in Ashburn. The homes have 1,596 to 2,689 finished square feet, with base prices from $291,990 to $336,990.
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The Dylan model's main level features an open living room and dining room, a family room and a center-island kitchen with a pantry. Upstairs are three bedrooms, two full baths and a laundry room.
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Smoke drifts over the Gongolamboto military camp on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam Thursday Feb. 17, 2011, following several explosion that occurred on Wednesday night. The explosions leveled homes, killed at least 20 people and wounded about 145 others. (AP Photo Khalfan Said)
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FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2000 file photo, an inspector wades through the checkout aisles of a supermarket in Uckfield, south of London, as the local river burst its bank and caused the town to flood, after several days of heavy rain and a night of severe storms. Two studies in the journal Nature link global warming to extreme rainstorms and snowfalls and find these weather events are getting substantially worse. One study found that the strongest precipitation events were 7 percent wetter in the 1990s than they were in the 1950s. The other looked at costly flooding in England and Wales in the fall of 2000 and found that global warming more than doubled the likelihood of that flood occurring. Both studies used computer modeling. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
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Streets in Jidhafs, Bahrain, are jammed Tuesday in a funeral procession for Ali Abdulhadi Mushaima, 21, killed in Monday's protests. Anger intensified when one of the mourners was shot fatally. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this file photo taken Feb. 18, 2001, Dale Earnhardt's (3) window pops out of the car after being hit by Ken Schrader (36) during the Daytona 500 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. Getting by are drivers Bobby hamilton (55), Jeremy Mayfield (12), Bill Elliott (9) and Ricky Rudd (28). Earnhardt had to be cut from his battered car and was taken to Halifax Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead of head injuries. The 10-year anniversary of Earnhardt's fatal accident falls on Friday, Feb. 18, 2011, just two days before the season-opening Daytona 500, NASCAR's version of the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Greg Suvino, file)
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FILE - In this Jan. 4, 1996, file photo, Colorado Avalanche's Peter Forsberg, left, of Sweden, and Philadelphia Flyers' Rod Brind'Amour vie for the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Denver. Forsberg announced his retirement from the NHL on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. A chronic foot ailment cut short the Swede's career. He made a brief return in 2008 and didn't play in the NHL again until this month. After a visa delay, he took the ice in just two road games, scoring no points, before deciding to end his career. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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Colorado Avalanche Swedish forward Peter Forsberg with tears in his eyes announces his retirement from hockey during a news conference, Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, in Denver. Forsberg announced his retirement two games after returning to the NHL after a three-year absence. (AP Photo/ Ed Andrieski)
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Colorado Avalanche center Peter Forsberg (21), of Sweden, jumps over the boards to start a shift in the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Nashville Predators on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011, in Nashville, Tenn. Avalanche head coach Joe Sacco looks on. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Colorado Avalanche's Peter Forsberg, of Sweden, looks on during a morning skate before their NHL hockey game against the Columbus Blue Jackets Friday, Feb. 11, 2011, in Columbus, Ohio. Forsberg is expected to make his debut for the Avs on Friday after clearing up a work visa problem. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
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A woman holds a child as they stand outside a building as a precaution after a magnitude-6.8 earthquake in Concepcion, Chile, Friday Feb. 11, 2011. The earthquake struck central Chile Friday, centered in almost exactly the same spot where last year's magnitude-8.8 quake spawned a tsunami and devastated coastal communities. Electricity and phone service were disrupted and thousands of people fled to higher ground following Friday's quake, but the government quickly announced that there was no risk of a tsunami, and there were no reports of damage or injuries. (AP Photo/Francisco Negroni)
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This image provided by the San Diego Fire and Rescue Department shows San Diego Fire Department paramedics assisting a victim at the site of a crash where a taxi cab driver plowed slowly into a crowd on a sidewalk in San Diego's busy Gaslamp District Saturday Feb. 12, 2011, injuring more than two dozen people, police said. (AP Photo/ San Diego Fire and Rescue Department, Maurice Luque)
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The structure of an electric car differs considerably from that of a conventional car — and the new components pose a number of new safety challenges.
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Sturbridge Homes is building 250 condominiums at Central Parke at Victoria Falls in Laurel. The homes are priced from $187,500.
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Miller & Smith is building 45 town homes at Autumn Walk at Emerson in Laurel. The homes have 2,737 to 2,903 finished square feet, with base prices from $389,990 to $414,990.
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Stanley Martin Homes is building 244 single-family homes at Selma Estates in Leesburg. The homes have 2,662 to 3,281 finished square feet and can be expanded to 6,053 to 6,448 square feet.
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Emergency workers gather at the scene after a small commuter aircraft carrying 10 passengers and two crew crashed on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, as it tried to land in heavy fog at Cork Airport in Ireland. (AP Photo/Niall Carson, Press Association)
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Security forces, emergency responders and civilians stand near a destroyed building after a car-bomb attack in Kirkuk, Iraq, 180 miles north of Baghdad, on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)
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Flames rise Tuesday from Enterprise Products, a petroleum plant in Mont Belvieu, Texas. A Mont Belvieu police dispatcher said there were no reports of injuries or evacuations after the fire broke out at the Enterprise Products site. (Associated Press/ Houston Chronicle, Billy Smith)
