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**FILE** A hand-painted sign greets visitors to the Philadelphia office of then-Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign on March 5, 2008. (Associated Press)

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Photographs by Alain Jaramillo for Case Design/Remodeling The exterior of retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Gary Gaal's plain 1970s Colonial-style home (below) was transformed recently by Case Design/Remodeling of Bethesda, which won the materials in a remodeling giveaway.

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The Juniper model has an open floor plan across the back of the main level with a family room, breakfast area and center-island kitchen. Upstairs are three bedrooms, each with a walk-in closet.

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Former state Sen. Susan Tucker, Democrat, speaks against casino gaming at a rally outside the Statehouse in Boston, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. House Democrats caucused behind closed doors to discuss legislation that would license three resort style casinos and a slot machine parlor. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

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Sarah Palin, former GOP vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor, rides on the back of a motorcycle at the Rolling Thunder annual motorcycle rally, past the U.S. Capitol during the Memorial Day weekend rally in Washington, Sunday, May 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton walks with Harry E. Johnson, president/CEO of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Foundation (center), and D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray, at the King memorial on the Mall. (Associated Press)

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Visitors stroll the grounds near one of the pools at the 9/11 memorial plaza on the World Trade Center site in New York on Monday, the first day the memorial was opened to the public and the day after the 10th anniversary. (Associated Press)

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Center Cody Eakin, 20, was out of shape at the Capitals' development camp in July, but his recent commitment to fitness has left a positive impression on coach Bruce Boudreau. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Michael Lehrman, executive managing director of Cantor Fitzgerald and Co., bows his head at one of two memorial pools at ground zero in New York on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. More than 600 employees from Cantor Fitzgerald lost their lives in the attacks on the World Trade Center's twin towers. (AP Photo, Carolyn Cole, Pool)

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A flag hangs from the frame above the front door of a home on Medina River Way in Steiner Ranch in Austin, Texas, on Saturday. Texas is in the midst of one of its worst wildfire outbreaks in state history.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Two bank smartcards displayed in London have built-in chips. The cards are recognizable by the fingernail-sized gold contacts embedded on one side.

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An honor guard bugler plays taps at the the Pentagon Memorial as the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is observed at the Pentagon outside Washington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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A Secret Service countersniper team looks out from atop the Pentagon during a 10th-anniversary remembrance ceremony at the Pentagon Memorial in Washington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Soldiers lay wreaths at the Pentagon Memorial on the benches bearing the names of the victims during the 10th-anniversary ceremony of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon outside Washington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Wreaths laid by a service member during the commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon sit on each of the 184 memorial benches of the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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Wreaths laid by a service member during the commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon sit on each of the 184 memorial benches of the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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Wreaths laid by a service member during the commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon sit on each of the 184 memorial benches of the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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Sara Guest (left) and her husband, Jackson, comfort Toni Guest, 21, all of Watkinsville, Ga., as the family visits the Pentagon Memorial on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, following the commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon in Arlington. Sara Guest's sister, Leslie Whittington, was killed in the attack, along with Leslie's husband, Charlie, and their daughters, Zoe Falkenberg, 8, and Dana Falkenberg, 3. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. speaks during the commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon as Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (left) listens at the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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Metal beams taken from the World Trade Center stand in front of an American flag during a memorial ceremony to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, at Parc Sans Souci in downtown Lafayette, La. (AP Photo/Leslie Westbrook September 11, 2011