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A US Marine walks through the rubble of the Iraqi Parliment Building in Saddam Hussein's Palace complex near the Tigris River Saturday, April 12, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )
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An Iraqi boy tries to pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein near burning government buildings in Baghdad, Iraq Friday, April 11, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )
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A dead Iraqi lies near a destroyed surface-to-air missle near where the1st Marine Division crossed into Baghdad over blown bridges crossing the Diyala River after 8th ESB spanned the damaged sections with bridging equipment in Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, April 8, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )
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US Marine MP Lance Cpl. Joel Swenson attached to 1st Marines 4th Marine Division directs Baghdad citizens away from convoy routes near the Diyala River in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, April 9, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )
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US Marine convoys pass the burned out hulk of an Iraqi armored personnel carrier near the Diyala River in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, April 9, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )
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Iraqi citizens greet US Marine Col. J. J. Pomfret of CSSG 11 ( Combat Service Support Group 11 ) near one of Saddam Hussein's palaces on the east bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 12, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )
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Tan Liang carries a PM2.5 detector toward a garbage-burning facility near his residential compound in Beijing. Residents are demanding the right to know what the government does not tell them: just how polluted their city is. (Associated Press)
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K. Hovnanian Homes is building 107 villas at Greenfield Crossing in Aldie. The Hanover model, with 3,227 square feet, is priced from $429,990.
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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.
