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Residents in the Park Slope neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York circle around a car crushed by a fallen tree, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. A brief but severe storm has swept through New York City, uprooting trees and damaging cars. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Henry Sealine, right, his wife Grace, center, and friend Chuck Swanson examine the damage outside their house on 110th Street after severe storm moved through in the Queens borough of New York, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Daniel P. Derella)
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A man steps through fallen branches in the Park Slope neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. A brief but severe storm has swept through New York City, uprooting trees and damaging cars. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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South Korean Navy helicopters fly during the 60th Incheon Landing Operations Commemoration Ceremony, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010 at sea near Incheon, the coastal city where United Nations Forces led by U.S. General Douglas MacArthur landed in September, 1950 just months after North Korea invaded the South. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
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Toll Brothers is building 104 attached carriage-style homes at Tollgate Village in Bel Air. The homes have approximately 2,085 to 2,230 finished square feet, with base prices from $429,995 to $466,995.
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Van Metre Homes is building 100 condominiums at Lansdowne Town Center in Leesburg. The homes have 1,407 to 1,619 finished square feet, with base prices from $249,990 to $269,990.
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Van Metre Homes' Soho model at Lansdowne Town Center in Leesburg has a center-island kitchen with 42-inch maple cabinets and granite counters. It has 1,407 square feet and is priced from $249,990.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen on Tuesday looks over a Conductivity-Temperature-Depth carousel, which is used to assist Deepwater Horizon oil spill response efforts by capturing subsurface water samples on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana.
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This image provided by NASA shows the eye of Hurricane Igor taken from the International Space Station Tuesday Sept.14, 2010, by astronaut Douglas Wheelock. At midnight Sept. 15, 2010, Igor was about 1140 miles southeast of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph moving to the west-northwest at 9 mph. (AP Photo/NASA - Doug Wheelock)
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In this Dec. 20, 1943 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, B-17G Flying Fortress airplanes are shown being built at Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this 1937 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, Boeing's historic "Plant 2," which opened in 1936, is shown in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this 1937 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, Boeing's historic "Plant 2," which opened in 1936, is shown in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this June 16, 1945 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle, is shown covered in camouflage designed to make it look like a residential neighborhood when viewed from the air to protect it from air-based attacks during World War II. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this Dec. 20, 1943 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, B-17G Flying Fortress airplanes are shown being built at Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this 1942 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, B-17E Flying Fortress airplanes are shown being built at Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this July 12, 1966 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, the first Boeing 737 airplane is shown being built at Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this March 19, 1954, photo from the Boeing Co. archive, a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress airplane is rolled out of Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this March 31, 1944 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, a B-17G Flying Fortress airplane is shown at Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle, with camouflage used to hide the building from aerial attacks during World War II visible on the roof. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this image courtesy of Globovision Television News, people surrounds the wreckage of an airplane of a state airline Conviasa after it crashed about 6 miles from the eastern city of Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. The plane was carrying 51 people, and officials said at least 33 people survived.(AP Photo/Globovison)
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This Monday Sept. 13, 2010, satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Igor, left, east of the Northern Leeward Islands and Tropical Storm Julia, right, south-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands. Igor threatened to become a Category 5 storm Monday as it churned far out over the Atlantic Ocean. (AP Photo/NOAA)