Hospitality_Recreation

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The home at 1826 Great Falls St. in McLean is on the market for $965,000. The Sears catalog home, built in 1931, was expanded and transformed in 2003.

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The pool is a focal point in a backyard made for entertaining. Besides the pool, the yard features a slate patio with a built-in barbecue and an observatory with a retractable roof.

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The kitchen and great room are in the home's 2003 addition. The kitchen features granite counters and ceramic tile flooring, while the great room has a stone wall and a vaulted ceiling.

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The Prescott model at Marrwood at Stone Ridge includes a spacious center-island kitchen and breakfast area that can be expanded with a morning room and a deck accessible from both the kitchen and the family room.

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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray had the support of bar owners for his proposal that clubs be allowed to remain open an extra hour, till 3 a.m. on weeknights and 4 a.m. on weekends, but a D.C. Council committee voted 3 to 2 against the plan Wednesday. The measure could still resurface, however. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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The 3.1-mile Glover Archbold Trail runs from Van Ness Street Northwest to the Potomac River. In Georgetown, it meets up with the Capital Crescent Trail, one of many greenspaces across the country that uses an abandoned railroad right of way for jogging, biking and plain old strolling. (The Washington Times)

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On the Nickel Plate Trail near Bunker Hill, Ind., (from left) Rick Wagner, Karl Reusser and Esther Wagner are part of a growing number of Americans taken with biking on rail trails. "We just started seeing how many different states we could ride a trail in," he said of his family. So far, they have hit 14. "You meet really neat people on the trails. It's just like everyone's on their best behavior." (Rick Wagner via Associated Press)

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Photographer Annie Leibovitz on Tuesday was honored by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art at a private luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Associated Press)

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A Harley-Davidson sits in the garage in Kakuda, Niyagi Prefecture in northern Japan, in this undated photo taken by owner Ikuo Yokoyama. Japanese media said May 2, 2012, that the motorcycle lost in March 2011 tsunami washed up on a Canadian island about 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles) away. (Associated Press/Ikuo Yokoyama via Kyodo News)

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In this photo taken by Canadian Peter Mark at the end of April 2012 and released May 2, 2012, a motorbike lies on a beach in Graham Island in western Canada. Japanese media say the Harley-Davidson motorcycle lost in last year's tsunami washed up on the Canadian island about 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles) away. (Associated Press/Kyodo News, Peter Mark)

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Cars travel on Ohio state Route 82 across a bridge over the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Brecksville, Ohio, on May 1, 2012. Five men were arrested the previous night for conspiring to blow up the bridge. (Associated Press)

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The Florida delegation at this summer's Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., will stay at the Innisbrook Golf Resort in suburban Palm Harbor, more than 30 miles from the convention site. Some have speculated the location is punishment for a violation of RNC rules. (Innisbrook Golf Resort)

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Maryland State Sen. Jamie B. Raskin, Montgomery Democrat.

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Zahi Zeidan, owner of Nocean restaurant in Tyre, Lebanon, says he will reopen after his business was bombed "because we serve alcohol." Four bombings in recent months have targeted liquor stores and restaurants in the port city, where much of the population shuns alcohol, which is forbidden in Islam. The country as a whole is the most tolerant in the Arab world. Beirut, the capital, is well-known for its bars and clubs frequented by locals and foreign tourists. (Associated Press)

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Inside, council member Jim Graham, Ward 1 Democrat, challenges bar and nightclub owners testifying in favor of extending the hours for bars and nightclubs. He proposed a tax increase on alcohol that would offset the added income of the later hours. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)