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The kitchen features white cabinets with a gray Corian counter. The owners added a shelf above the doorway leading to the dining room.
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"We know that [natural resources] will either help your country finance its own path out of poverty, or you will fall prey to the natural-resource curse, which will enrich a small elite, outside interests, corporations and countries, and leave your people hardly better off then when you started" - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Radioactive water pools outside a building with a purification device inside at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hersman discusses in Washington on Tuesday the NTSB's recommendation to ban all cellphone use by drivers except for emergencies. (Associated Press)
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From left: Jon Corzine, former MF Global Holdings Ltd. chairman and CEO; Bradley Abelow, MF Global president and COO; and Henri Steenkamp, MF Global CFO, are sworn in Dec. 13, 2011, on Capitol Hill prior to testifying before the Senate Agriculture Committee. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Motorists pass a billboard encouraging people not to text while driving in Indianapolis. (Associated Press)
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SOLUTIONINDIANA.COM A billboard and digital ad campaign in Indiana is encouraging employers unhappy with the business climate in Illinois to move to Indiana.
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A billboard and digital ad campaign in Indiana is encouraging employers unhappy with the business climate in Illinois to move to Indiana. (SOLUTIONINDIANA.COM)
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Bill Atkinson, an agribusiness owner, asks a question during a meeting between state agriculture officials and farmers on Tuesday in Mobile, Ala. At the meeting, farmers discussed their concerns that the state's tough new immigration law has driven off the laborers they will need to plant their crops in the spring. (Associated Press)
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The Roosevelt model at Waverly Overlook includes a center-island kitchen with an adjacent breakfast area that opens to the family room.
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NVHomes is building 26 single-family homes on fifth-acre sites at Waverly Overlook in Marriottsville. The Roosevelt model, with 3,101 square feet, is priced from $609,990.
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Jefferson Island, a 20-acre island in the Chesapeake Bay, is on the market for $3,950,000. The five-bedroom house on the island can be upgraded to a year-round home. There is also a three-bedroom guest house.
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Tornado damage is seen from a bird's-eye view in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on May 7. America's wild weather year hit a new high: a devastating dozen billion-dollar disasters.
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Hundreds of cars are seen stranded on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago on Feb. 2 after a blizzard of epic proportions incapacitated the Windy City. Incomplete damage estimates on a pre-Halloween Northeast snowstorm currently stand at $750 million. (Associated Press)
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Greenery referred to as a "holiday tree" by Gov. Lincoln Chafee is lit Tuesday in the statehouse in Providence, R.I. Mr. Chafee and Republican state Rep. Doreen Costa battled over whether to call the official spruce a "holiday" tree or a "Christmas" tree. (Associated Press)
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Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee defends his "Holiday Tree" declaration by saying it simply honors the state's origins as a sanctuary for religious diversity. "Use of the term 'holiday tree' is a continuation of past practice," he said. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Lee Terry, Nebraska Republican, talks about the Keystone XL pipeline and its environmental impact on his state during an interview Tuesday with reporters and editors at The Washington Times. He favors the proposed pipeline extension through his state. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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Afghan policemen pick up debris after a motorcycle bomb Tuesday in Kandahar killed a civilian. Unlike other explosions Tuesday, police said this one did not target Shiites. (Associated Press)
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Vials of H5N1 flu vaccine by Beijing-based drugmaker Sinovac Biotech Ltd. come off the production line at the company's facilities in Beijing. After years of supplying its own market, China's vaccine makers are gearing up to push exports. (Associated Press)
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Keith Curo of Pasadena, Calif., stops to look over the damage caused by a fallen tree at a Shell gas station on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, in Pasadena. Some of the worst winds in years blasted through California overnight, with gusts up to 97 mph. (AP Photo/Bret Hartman)
