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The center-island kitchen in the Sycamore model at Selma Estates has hardwood floors, granite counters, 42-inch cabinets and stainless steel appliances. The model is base-priced from $549,990 and has from 3,281 to 6,448 square feet.
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Stanley Martin Homes is building 244 single-family homes at Selma Estates in Leesburg. The homes have 2,662 to 3,281 finished square feet and can be expanded to 6,053 to 6,448 square feet.
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Clothes dry in the sun outside a shack in Juba. Even aid workers live in shipping containers, and 85 percent of the population is illiterate, but excitement over independence is widespread. (Associated Press)
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In this provided by Wake Forest University, Wake Forest baseball coach Tom Walter, right, visits with player Kevin Jordan one day after donating a kidney to Jordan at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Jordan was diagnosed last April with ANCA vasculitis, a type of autoimmune swelling disorder caused by abnormal antibodies. (AP Photo/Wake Forest University, Steve Shutt)
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In this provided by Wake Forest University, Wake Forest baseball coach Tom Walter, right, visits with player Kevin Jordan one day after donating a kidney to Jordan at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Jordan was diagnosed last April with ANCA vasculitis, a type of autoimmune swelling disorder caused by abnormal antibodies. (AP Photo/Wake Forest University, Steve Shutt)
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Gregory L. Schulte, deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy, said the International Space Station has had to maneuver around Chinese satellite debris. (Associated Press)
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (left) and Energy Secretary Steven Chu look over a map of areas under consideration for wind energy development. Leasing of sites could begin by the end of the year. They made the announcement Monday morning. (Associated Press)
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Flames are seen after an explosion went off at a gas terminal in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, in El-Arish, setting off a massive fire. No injuries were reported, and the blaze was quickly brought under control after the gas flow was shut off. (AP Photo/Ashraf Swailem)
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Locals walk through a garden square in Mission Beach, Australia, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, after Cyclone Yasi brought heavy rain and howling winds gusting to 186 mph. The cyclone destroyed dozens of homes, ripped roofs and walls from dozens more as well as cutting power supplies in two regional cities and laid waste to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of banana and sugar cane crops. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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An optimistic message is displayed on a destroyed home in Tully, Australia. Cyclone Yasi, the most powerful storm to hit the area in nearly a century, caused widespread damage but no deaths because residents heeded orders to evacuate. (Associated Press)
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This computer generated image courtesy of SeaWorld shows an artist rendition of the new SeaWorld show "One Ocean." The new SeaWorld show will feature killer whales as ambassadors of the sea with an educational theme. (AP Photo/SeaWorld)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos shakes hands with women in a camp of displaced people in Galkayo town in Somalia. The U.N. and aid agencies are warning of a possible catstrophe in Somalia, where a severe drought has plunged millions of Somalis into crisis. The drought has increased the number of malnourished children, displaced thousands of people and killed thousands of animals. (AP Photo/Malkhadir Muhumed)
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The homes, which have modernized floor plans, range in size from 518 to 1,316 square feet. Monthly condo fees start at $200.
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NV Homes is building 11 single-family homes on 6,000-square-foot sites at Holly Manor in Annandale. The Bentley Place model homes have approximately 3,580 finished square feet, with base prices from $699,990 to $799,990.
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Craftmark Homes is building more than 70 single-family homes on 17,945-square-foot sites at Oak Creek in Upper Marlboro. The homes have 2,748 to 5,136 finished square feet, with base prices from $464,900 to $634,900.
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Demonstrators hold pictures of Haiti's ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide during a protest demanding his return in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Feb. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, seen here Nov. 1 in New Orleans announcing an agreement by BP to provide funding for seafood-safety testing, coastal-restoration efforts and tourism marketing after April's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, said Wednesday the claims process "remains unfair to claimants." (Associated Press)
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Gregory Jaczko, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman, sees no time frame for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository decision. (Associated Press)
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An American Electric Power worker clears a tree from a power line Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, in Canton, Ohio. An ice storm left hundreds of thousands in the dark across Ohio on Wednesday and gave way to melting slush before plunging temperatures and high winds threatened to bring new outages and a repeat of treacherous, icy conditions. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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A man photographs high waves from Lake Michigan, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, in Milwaukee. The area was under a blizzard warning and some freeways were shut down. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
