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The two-level homes feature hardwood flooring, oak stairs, recessed lighting and custom-designed crown molding.
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Van Metre Homes is building 53 single-family homes at Marrwood at Stone Ridge in Aldie. The Prescott model, with 3,627 square feet, is priced from $629,990.
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Residents try to extinguish fires in the smoldering remains of a market in Rubkona near Bentiu in South Sudan after an attack by Sudanese aircraft on April 23. A massive humanitarian crisis, triggered by the conflict and heightened by an approaching rainy season, is threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of people along the Sudan-South Sudan border. (Associated Press)
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William J. Bosanko, NARA's Executive for Agency Services, said officials are searching for missing boxes. (Associated Press)
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Rail cars transport coal to energy providers across the U.S. Environmentalists are trying to keep the fossil fuel inside the nation's borders and take responsibility for carbon emissions. (Associated Press)
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Barges filled with coal and wells pumping natural gas give the U.S. enough fuel to export to burgeoning markets in Asia, but proposals to build a natural gas liquefaction and export plant in Maryland and coal export facilities in the Pacific Northwest have raised environmental concerns about the global use of fossil fuels. (Associated Press)
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Boats tack for position before the start of the Newport Ocean Sailing Association's Newport-to-Ensenada yacht race on Friday, April 27, 2012, in Corona Del Mar, Calif. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Ken Steinhardt)
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This Thursday, April 26, 2012, photo provided by the CU Independent shows a bear that wandered into the University of Colorado Boulder, Colo., dorm complex Williams Village falling from a tree after being tranquilized by Colorado wildlife officials. (AP Photo/CU Independent, Andy Duann)
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Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz (left) joins Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu (second from right) on a drilling platform Thursday to mark the start of exploratory oil and gas drilling by Turkey in the northern half of ethnically split Cyprus. (Associated Press)
