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Steuart-Kret Homes is building 44 villas at the Delight at Fairwood in Bowie. The homes have 1,942 finished square feet, with base prices from $305,900.
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K. Hovnanian Homes is offering single-family homes in its active-adult community in Middletown, Del., Four Seasons at Silver Maple.. The homes, which are pre-construction priced at $219,990 to $309,990, will have two to four bedrooms, two to four baths and 1,251 to 5,400 finished square feet.
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A walks past an uprooted tree that lies on the river bed of the swollen Shonai River at Kasugai, central Japan,on Wednesday Sept. 21, 2011 as powerful Typhoon Roke lashes across central Japan with heavy rains and sustained winds of up to 100 mph. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Farmlands are under waters flooded from the Toyo River in central japan on Wednesday Sept. 21, 2011 as powerful Typhoon Roke barreled across central Japan with heavy rains and sustained winds of up to 100 mph. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Two women in kimonos make their way through rains in Tokyo's Ginza shopping area as powerful Typhoon Roke lashes central Japan. The storm made landfall in the afternoon near the central Japanese city of Hamamatsu, about 125 miles west of Tokyo. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Police officers in rain gear regulate vehicles moving across a flooded national route in Toyokawa, central Japan, on Wednesday Sept. 21, 2011 as powerful Typhoon Roke lashes central Japan with heavy rains and sustained winds of up to 100 mph. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Laura Prepon stars in "Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea?" The show is one of many this season filled with presumably "empowered" women. (NBC)
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Pedestrians in Tokyo make their way through strong winds and rains from Typhoon Roke on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, as the powerful storm bore down on Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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Nicholas Cage
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A Joplin, Mo., neighborhood devastated by a tornado that killed 162 people in May is seen a week later. A report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says residents did not take shelter after first alarms.
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A look at the ice at 1st Mariner Arena three hours before the Baltimore Hockey Classic. / Stephen Whyno
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Robert V. Brannum
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Nepalese soldiers on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, carry an injured civilian over an area near Dharan in the Dhankuta district of eastern Nepal that was hit by a landslide following a magnitude-6.9 earthquake on Sunday. (AP Photo/Sita Mademba)
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On Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, a villager in Yadong County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region looks at a cow killed in a strong earthquake that hit neighboring Sikkim in northern India on Sunday evening. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Gesang Dawa)
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A Nepalese woman looks out of a window at debris of collapsed buildings damaged by Sunday's earthquake in Katmandu, Nepal, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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Nepalese remove a motorbike buried under the debris of a house damaged by Sunday's earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal, about 9 miles from Katmandu, the capital, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo)
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Residents fearing more aftershocks following Sunday's strong earthquake sit on a basketball court at a university in Gangtok, India, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Soldiers clean up a quake-hit house in Yadong County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. At least seven people have died in the county after Sunday's strong temblor. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wen Tao)
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On Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, a Buddhist monk looks at a monastery damaged by Sunday's earthquake in Gangtok, India. (AP Photo)
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Police on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, look for victims in a house that collapsed after Sunday's earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal, about 9 miles from Katmandu, the capital. (AP Photo)
