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The Mozart model at Market Square at Frederick includes a country kitchen with a breakfast bar, a sliding glass door to the deck and an optional center island. Upstairs are three bedrooms, two full baths and a laundry room.
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The addition to the home expanded the original kitchen, adding a breakfast bar and breakfast area. The white-on-white space has recessed lighting, a floor-to-ceiling pantry and Corian counters.
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The Maine II model at Beaver Dam Estates in Delaware is priced from $269,900. The home, which has 2,182 square feet, has four bedrooms, including a first-floor master suite.
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Student Ross Cooper signs with a friend at H Street Country Club. Bartenders have learned to sign bar basics, such as "beer" and "wine." Brighter lights make it easier to see sign language and read lips. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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The 165,000-square-foot McGlothlin Wing, opened last years, was designed by London-based American architect Rick Mather. (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) The limestone-and-glass James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Wing of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond gives the collection more room to shine and provides more room for exhibitions. (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)
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The 165,000-square-foot McGlothlin Wing, opened last years, was designed by London-based American architect Rick Mather.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Palestinians of means shop at the new al-Andulusia mall in Gaza City. A flurry of construction is allowing a tiny middle class to flaunt its wealth in the impoverished Gaza Strip, fueling perhaps the most acrimonious grass-roots resentment yet toward the ruling Hamas movement.
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Chris and Kristen Hogan of Biloxi, Miss., take a Sunday walk on the beach in Pass Christian, Miss., with their children, Sophie and Myers, after rains from Tropical Storm Lee forced them from their home when the Biloxi River flooded. (Associated Press)
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Chris and Kristen Hogan of Biloxi, Miss., take a Sunday walk on the beach in Pass Christian, Miss., with their children Sophie and Myers after rains from Tropical Storm Lee forced them from their home when the Biloxi River flooded. (Associated Press)
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Young skateboarders in the crowd reach for a free skateboard during the skating event. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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Collin Provost of Huntington Beach, Calif., does a trick in midair. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Sam Clinton, a staff chef at FareStart (top left), a program in Seattle that helps troubled and homeless people by training them to work in the food industry, supervises work in the kitchen as student Andy Osterman (top right) works on a dinner course.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Dinner is being served in Seattle at FareStart, a program that teaches cooking and other skills that can lead to a career in the restaurant business. The students have troubled pasts and are seeking a new start.
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Overflowing water from a river floods a residential area in Nachikatsuura, Japan, on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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This book cover image courtesy of Aloha Publishers shows the cover of "Maggie Goes on a Diet," by Paul M. Kramer and Mari Kuwayama. The self-published book doesn't come out until next month, but there's already online outrage over it. (AP Photo/Aloha Publishers)
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A surfer waits with his board to surf on Sept. 1, 2011, in Dauphin Island, Ala. (Associated Press/Mobile Press-Register)
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BARBARA L. SALISBURY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES A sign in a window of Shaw's Tavern in the District notes the restaurant has been shut down until it is able to obtain a liquor license. The tavern's management team reportedly failed to acquire basic business, occupancy and liquor licenses from the city.
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In this Jan. 31, 2010 photo, a visitor inspects a Honda Motor Co.'s hybrid Fit at the Japanese automaker's headquarters in Tokyo. The Fit subcompact beat Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius hybrid last month to top Japan's auto sales model rankings, its first return to that spot in nearly two years, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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The kitchen has stone flooring, recessed and pendant lighting, granite counters, and a wood and stainless steel center island.
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The home at 7313 Summit Ave. in the Martin's Additions community in Chevy Chase is on the market for $895,000. The four-bedroom home, built in 1936, has an attached one-car garage.
