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Timberlake Homes is building 28 single-family homes on half-acre sites at Poplar Hill Estates in Clinton. The homes have 2,434 to 3,464 finished square feet, with base prices from $389,900 to $489,900.
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The condominium homes at the Isabella at Monticello Mews include sleek kitchens with granite counters, an undermount sink, a breakfast bar, stainless steel appliances, pendant lighting and under-cabinet lighting.
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Della Ratta Inc. is building 144 condominium homes at the Isabella at Monticello Mews near Alexandria. The homes have 781 to 1,673 finished square feet, with base prices from $244,900 to $550,000.
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A diver loads 200-year-old bottles of Champagne into a crate after being rescued from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea in this undated photo released to the media on Nov. 17, 2010. The world's oldest Champagne was discovered in July in a shipwreck, 50 meters (yards) below the surface, in the waters south of Aaland, a Finnish-controlled archipelago of 6,500 islands in the Baltic sea. Photographer: Alex Dawson/Aalands Landskapsregering via Bloomberg
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A diver inspects 200-year-old bottles of Champagne at the site of a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea in this undated photo released to the media on Nov. 17, 2010. The world's oldest Champagne was discovered in July in a shipwreck, 50 meters (yards) below the surface, in the waters south of Aaland, a Finnish-controlled archipelago of 6,500 islands in the Baltic sea. Photographer: Alex Dawson/Aalands Landskapsregering via Bloomberg
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Associated Press A building site where the remaining apartments of a development were to have been built sits idle on the outskirts of Dublin on Monday. Debt-burdened Ireland is talking with other European Union governments about how best to handle its troubled finances, officials said.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Four Loko is among the caffeinated alcoholic beverages that federal authorities say have created a "very important public health issue."
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A relative reacts as rescue workers, unseen, search for bodies and survivors amid debris after a four-story apartment building collapsed in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. Dozens of residents were killed and scores injured when the 15-year-old building housing about 200 people collapsed late Monday night, police reports said. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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A child with cholera symptoms is treated by volunteer American doctors at a hospital in Archaie, Haiti, Monday Nov. 15, 2010. Nearly 1,000 people have been killed and thousands have been hospitalized for cholera across Haiti, with symptoms including serious diarrhea, vomiting and fever. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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A woman suffering cholera symptoms is carried to St. Catherine hospital, run by Doctors Without Borders, in the Cite Soleil slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday Nov. 15, 2010. Thousands of people have been hospitalized for cholera across Haiti with symptoms including serious diarrhea, vomiting and fever and hundreds have died. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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UN peacekeepers from Brazil patrols at a earthquake survivors refugee camp in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday Nov. 15, 2010. Protesters who hold Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers responsible for an outbreak of cholera that has killed 1,000 in three weeks threw stones and threatened to set fire to a base in Cap-Haitien, the country's second-largest city Monday, Haitian radio and eyewitnesses reported.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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A woman with cholera symptoms is helped after her arrival to a hospital in Archaie, Haiti, Monday Nov. 15, 2010. Nearly 1,000 people have been killed and thousands have been hospitalized for cholera across Haiti, with symptoms including serious diarrhea, vomiting and fever. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Members of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization attend morning prayers for Eid al Adha at a temporary shelter in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov . 16, 2010. Thousands of villagers returned to ash-covered homes along the slopes of Indonesia's most volatile volcano Monday, after the government said some areas well away from the fiery crater appeared out of danger from another eruption. (AP Photo)
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Members of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization attend morning prayers for Eid al Adha at a temporary shelter in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. Thousands of villagers returned to ash-covered homes along the slopes of Indonesia's most volatile volcano Monday, after the government said some areas well away from the fiery crater appeared out of danger from another eruption. (AP Photo/Slamet Riyadi)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Work continues to excavate what could become the foundation for a new nuclear power plant near the existing nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle (background), located in Waynesboro, Ga.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A Wateree River Correctional Institution farming program inmate in 2008 monitors milk cows in Rembert, S.C. The state prison will soon be home to South Carolina's largest dairy under one roof, as a $7 million expansion quadruples the herd at a prison farm.
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Mr. Morales knows how to properly harvest peyote, which grows wild near the border with Mexico. His customers are among tens of thousands of Native American Church members who use peyote in religious ceremonies.
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This undated photo released in London Wednesday Nov. 9, 2010, by The Zoological Society of London, shows the blistered skin of a blue whale. The whale, photographed in the Gulf of California, is one of several marine mammals studied by scientists who fear that the thinning ozone layer is causing them severe skin damage. (AP Photo/Diane Gendron- HO-Zoological Society of London)
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A wooden plague given to actress Betty White is seen during a ceremony where she was named an Honorary Forest Ranger by the US Forest Service, at the Kennedy Center in Washington Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010. White has stated in numerous interviews that her first ambition as a young girl was "to become a forest ranger, but they didn't allow women to do that back then". (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Frank Knight, 102, of Yarmouth, Maine, took care of a 217-year-old elm tree, called Herbie (background), for about 50 years. The diseased tree, cut down in January, has been made into works of art including a guitar. (Associated Press)
