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Ryan Homes is building 2,200 single-family homes on 0.17-acre homesites at Lee's Parke in Fredericksburg. The homes have approximately 1,680 to 2,822 finished square feet, with base prices from $242,990 to $309,990.
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Illustration: Foreign aid by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times
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An area of the San Miguel prison is burned after a fire killed at least 81 prisoners in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot also seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)
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An area of the San Miguel prison is burned after a fire killed at least 81 prisoners in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot also seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)
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Relatives of prisoners at the San Miguel prison react as they listen the list of names of inmates who died in a fire in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot killed at least 81 and seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)
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Relatives of inmates at San Miguel prison embrace as they wait for news after a fire killed at least 81 prisoners in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot also seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)
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An inmate looks out of San Miguel prison where a fire killed at least 81 prisoners in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot also seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)
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Police stand guard outside the San Miguel prison where a fire killed at least 81 prisoners in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot also seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)
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Relatives of inmates in San Miguel prison react as they wait for news after a fire killed at least 81 prisoners in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot also seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)
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Relatives of inmates at San Miguel prison react as they wait for news after a fire killed at least 81 prisoners in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot also seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)
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Relatives of inmates at San Miguel prison react as they wait for news after a fire killed at least 81 prisoners in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot also seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)
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Firefighters work the site of a small-plane crash Sunday evening in Roy, Utah. Wreckage of the single-engine Cessna 210 appears to be on the lawn at left and right. Only the pilot was hurt. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Air France Concorde Flight 4590 takes off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on July 25, 2000, with fire trailing from the engine on its left wing. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people aboard and four others on the ground. A decade later, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, a French court found Continental Airlines and a mechanic guilty in the crash. (AP Photo/Toshihiko Sato, File)
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Ken Burtt, vice president of technical services at Continental Airlines, waits for the opening of the Air France Concorde crash court case in Pontoise, France, north of Paris, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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In this July 25, 2000, photo, smoke billows from the crash site of an Air France Concorde in Gonesse, France, outside Paris. A French court on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, found Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics, John Taylor, guilty in the crash, which killed 113 people. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)
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** FILE ** In this July 25, 2000, photo, firefighters stand at the crash site of an Air France Concorde in Gonesse, France, outside Paris. A French court on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, found Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics, John Taylor, guilty in connection in the crash, which killed 113 people. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)
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** FILE ** This Aug. 31, 2000, photo taken from the preliminary report posted on the Internet by French investigators into the July 25, 2000, crash of Air France Concorde Flight 4590, shows a 16-inch metal strip found on the runway at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris following the crash. (AP Photo/HO, File)
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Ken Burtt, vice president of technical services at Continental Airlines, waits for the opening of the Air France Concorde crash court case in Pontoise, France, north of Paris, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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Jacques Herubel (center) -- a top engineer at Aerospatiale, which built the Concorde, from 1993 to 1995 -- talks with a lawyer before the opening of the Air France Concorde crash court case in Pontoise, France, north of Paris, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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Maj. Andre Turcat (left), the first French test pilot of the Concorde, talks with chief mechanic Michel Retif (center), who was on the first flight of the Concorde, and Jean Belon of the French manufacturer of engines for aircraft, SNECMA, during the Air France Concorde crash court case in Pontoise, France, north of Paris, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)