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Egyptian men observe the wreckage of a tour bus that crashed into a truck near Aswan, Egypt, on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, as it was making the 115-mile journey from Aswan to the ancient temples of Abu Simbel. The crash killed eight American tourists and injured 21, the state news agency said. (AP Photo)
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An overturned SUV lies in a snowy ditch along I-40 in western North Carolina at Mile Marker 48 on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Much of North Carolina was under a winter storm warning. (AP Photo/The Asheville Citizen-Times, Margaret Hester)
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Brandon Locklear (left) and Jeff Orrock, meteorologists with the National Weather Service in Raleigh, N.C., track the snowstorm moving into the Triangle area on Saturday evening, Dec. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Takaaki Iwabu)
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Passengers wait for their flights at Duesseldorf Airport in western Germany on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. According to the German Dapd news agency, the airport was shut down Friday for several hours because of bad weather. (AP Photo/Dapd, Jakob Studnar)
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In this Nov. 4, 2010 photo, Moses Bec, Carter Center field officer, uses a flip chart to explain to residents of Rakaweng cattle camp in Sudan how to prevent contracting guinea worm. He is holding a soiled and unusable water filter which was found by Carter Center staff on the ground in the cattle camp. The Carter Center distributes simple tools like cloth filters to local communities in remote Awerial County, in Lakes State, Southern Sudan, to encourage people to drink clean water instead of drinking directly from ponds contaminated with guinea worm. Cattle keeping communities in places like Awerial County, however, are sometimes resistant to using these devices, so the Carter Center conducts frequent health education sessions in the cattle camps in order to encourage regular use of the filtering devices. (AP Photo/Maggie Fick)
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Policemen and firefighters carry the body of a passenger after a bus plunged into a ravine in San Isidro, Ecuador, southwest of Quito, on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. At least 35 people were killed and 34 were reported injured in the accident. (AP Photo/Str)
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Titik Yuniarti is treated Dec. 15 in a Langsa, Indonesia, hospital for her injuries after she was beaten by a mob accusing her of attempting to abduct a child while searching for her daughter, who went missing in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Associated Press photographs Rafisah, the mother of Titik Yuniarti, points Dec. 15 to a picture of her grandchildren in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. In a dream she had, one of the youngsters appeared and said she had been taken in by a family in the town of Langsa after the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami.
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Pardee Homes touts the 'green' aspect of its new Fair Oaks Ranch homes in Santa Clarita, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. More people purchased new homes in November, but not enough to signal that better times are ahead for the battered housing industry. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Reeve Carney, center, who plays Spider-man in the theatrical version "Spider-man Turn off the Dark," is seen outside the Foxwoods Theatre in Times Square with Patrick Page, left, who plays The Green Goblin, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010, in New York. The curtain will go up again Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, after the producers of the accident-plagued Broadway musical agreed to new safety precautions to prevent another fall like the one that left a stuntman seriously injured. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)
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Firefighters help a woman from her vehicle on a flooded street in Los Angeles on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2010. The tail end of a storm that dumped rain on Southern California for nearly a week gave the region one final lashing, burying cars in mud, washing hillsides onto highways, flooding urban streets and threatening dozens of canyon homes. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)
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Stanley Martin Homes is building 215 single-family homes on quarter-acre homesites at Primrose Park in Wildewood, located in California in St. Mary's County. The homes have 1,801 to 3,292 finished square feet, with base prices from $269,990 to $372,990.
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The Gramercy model has a center-island kitchen on the main level and a master suite with a sitting area, private bath and two closets on the upper level.
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Van Metre is building 52 town homes at City Towns at the Overlook in Brambleton, located within walking distance of movies, restaurants and shops. The homes have 2,024 to 2,217 finished square feet, with base prices from $349,990 to $374,990.
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The Gramercy model at the City Towns at the Overlook in Brambleton has three finished levels. It is priced from $359,990.
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The home has extensive hardwood flooring and many original features, including the wood-burning fireplace, its mantel and glass doors.
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS Chicago firefighters evacuate an injured comrade from an abandoned commercial building in the city's South Side. Two were killed and 17 injured when a blaze caused a wall and roof to collapse.
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Sisters Louise Smith (left) and Anita Gagnon cut a sheet of drywall while volunteering Nov. 19 in the rebuilding of a New Orleans home ravaged by the 2005 flooding spawned by Katrina.
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Colleen Locke, of Ashland, Mass., speaks to reporters in front of Foxwoods Theatre, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 in New York. The troubled Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was plagued by its fourth accident since it began previews last month when a performer doing an aerial stunt fell about 30 feet, fire officials said. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Passengers queue outside Terminal 3 at London's Heathrow Airport on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010, to have their boarding passes checked as disruptions continued because of bad weather leading to the cancellation of some flights. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
