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The Valencia model has an open kitchen and breakfast area with a center island, granite counters, stainless steel appliances and 42-inch raised-panel cabinets. The breakfast area is adjacent to a two-story family room.

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The sunroom has a wood ceiling, tile flooring and plenty of windows and sliding doors to let the outdoors inside. A fireplace keeps the room cozy.

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The homeowners removed walls to create a large, open space where the kitchen, dining room and living room blend into each other.

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The home at 8905 Transue Drive in Bethesda's Charred Oak Estates community is on the market for $999,999. Built in 1964 with two additions built within the past 12 years, the home has four bedrooms.

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The two-story great room addition features black tile flooring, several Palladian windows, a wood-burning fireplace and a spiral staircase.

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**FILE** Maryland's Terrell Stoglin (12) shoots over Duke's Seth Curry during the Terps' 73-55 loss at Duke on Feb. 11, 2012. (Associated Press)

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NBC "I'm happy to just be a petrified tree stump where I get a laugh because a bird lands on me and picks an insect out of my hair," actor Nick Offerman says of his "Parks and Recreation" character Ron Swanson, a masculine role model plagued by no breach of confidence.

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A snowplow clears a road on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, near Harrachov, Czech Republic, in the Krkonose Mountains, 80 miles northeast of Prague. (Associated Press/CTK)

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A "skim room" exhibit at Las Vegas' Mob Museum explains how mobsters would steal some of the cash in a casino's counting room. Local FBI agents helped with the development of the museum to assure that the information was accurate. (Associated Press)

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A casino black book, or list of excluded persons, on display includes Anthony Spilotro, who is seen in other parts of the museum making his First Communion. He was the model for Joe Pesci's character in Martin Scorsese's "Casino." (Associated Press)

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The Olympic Village, a construction zone a year ago, will house many of the 15,000 athletes coming to London this summer for the 2012 London Games. Traffic officials fear gridlock along the 100-mile Olympic Route Network of traffic lanes reserved for athletes, sponsors and dignitaries. (Olympic Delivery Authority via Associated Press)

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Tiger Woods steps on his club after hitting from the ninth fairway at Pebble Beach Golf Links during the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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Copies of the fiscal 2013 budget are delivered and ready to be picked up on Feb. 13, 2012, at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Firefighters dig 77-year-old Elisabeta Dumitrache's house out of the snow Feb. 11, 2012, in the village of Carligul Mic, Romania. (Associated Press)

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Security gather outside the Beverly Hilton Hotel Saturday Feb. 11, 2012 in Beverly Hills Calif. Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. She was 48.(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)