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The Amherst model includes a family room with optional columns that opens into a breakfast area with an adjacent center-island kitchen. This model also has a library, a formal dining room and a formal living room on the main level.
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DISNEY DESTINATIONS VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS Aulani, a new Disney Resort & Spa in Hawaii, has a 950-foot-long lazy river that takes bathers through forests and caverns. The resort overlooks a white sand beach and a crystal blue lagoon (below). Hotel rooms range from $399 a night for a 420-square-foot room to $2,449 a night for the Ahu Ulu Suite (two bedrooms, 1,910 square feet). An ocean-view room runs $549 a night, which rivals prices at Hawaii's most posh resorts.
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Patrons eat out on the sidewalk patio of the Hawk 'n' Dove bar in Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011. After more than 40 years in business, the bar, which has been an institution on Capitol Hill will be closing down Oct. 2. There will be a series of events and celebrations leading up to the closing, and all of the bar's contents will be auctioned off. Regular patrons told The Washington Times that they are saddened by the closing. Many consider it a home away from home where they gather with friends. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY BARBARA L. SALISBURY / THE WASHINGTON TIMES After 44 years in business, the Hawk 'n' Dove bar on Capitol Hill will be closing down Oct. 2. There will be a series of events and celebrations before then and all of the bar's contents will be auctioned off. "They just found somebody else willing to pay more, and I can't afford to pay more," owner Stuart Long said.
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BARBARA L. SALISBURY / THE WASHINGTON TIMES Phil Panitch and Betty Auman chat over lunch at the Hawk 'n' Dove bar on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, the day its closing was announced. Mr. Panitch, who has been coming to the bar since 1976, said he was "shocked" to hear the news. Ms. Auman, who eats lunch here three out of five days of the workweek, said, "I couldn't believe it. I mean, it's an institution, and it's my lunchtime home with family that I regularly see."
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The North Korean leisure boat Mangyongbong is sent off on its first trial cruise Tuesday from the port city of Rason to the Mount Kumgang resort. The maiden voyage carried dozens of Chinese travel agents, international media and North Korean officials. (Associated Press)
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North Koreans and Chinese travel agents enjoy a buffet during the 21-hour trial cruise on the refurbished Japanese-built cargo ship. (Associated Press)
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North Koreans gather to send off the leisure boat Mangyongbong on a trial cruise to the Mount Kumgang resort from the port in Rason, North Korea, on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. Since the North barred South Korean tourists from the luxury resort, known abroad as Diamond Mountain, North Korea has begun courting Chinese and other international visitors. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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A tattered American flag recovered from World Trade Center debris is part of the Smithsonian Institution's upcoming special display of 9/11 "relics," positioned on tables rather than from behind exhibit glass. (National Museum of American History)
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Destroyed by water smashing under the boardwalk, concrete park benches and tables are strewn about, near the beach in the Rockaway Park section of New York Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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Tom Chase waves atop of his friend's beach home in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene, in East Haven, Conn., Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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Waves crash over waterfront condominiums in the Fort Trumbull section of Milford, Conn. Sunday Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Brian A. Pounds)
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Bicyclists ride past the Allegria Hotel on West Broadway which was flooded from Hurricane Irene that swept through Long Island on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Long Beach, N.Y. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
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A Fairfield Beach Road home is submerged in Pine Creek in Fairfield, Conn. as treacherous weather caused by Tropical Storm Irene came through the area on Sunday Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Cathy Zuraw)
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Denise Robinson clears out her destroyed beach home in the Sandbridge area of Virginia Beach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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UNWELCOME VISITOR: Debbie Martinez looks over the damage caused by a tree uprooted by Hurricane Irene that crashed into the bedroom of the house she is renting on Canal Lane in White Hall Manor, in Annapolis on Sunday. Nobody was hurt. (J.M. Eddins/The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Soldiers from the Army's Old Guard take photos of headstones in Section 15 of Arlington National Cemetery. Their project is to photograph and catalog the more than 219,00 grave markers and 43,000 nameplates in the columbarium.
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Marco and Marta Bonifazi of Geneva return to the bus that will take them back home to Geneva after their first shopping trip at the Carrefour supermarket across the border in Ferney-Voltaire, France. "It's just great to save money," Mr. Bonifazi, showing off his receipt, said of the Swiss franc that buys a lot more in countries that use the euro. (Associated Press)
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As Hurricane Irene makes her way up the Atlantic coast, a couple walks out to the pier at the waterfront in Alexandria, Va, Saturday, August 27, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Andrea Cook carries her daughter Brynn, 1, towards her daughter Cora, 3, next to the root ball of an uprooted tree on Canal Lane in White Hall Manor, in Anne Arundel County, Md., Sunday, August 28, 2011. Winds and rain from Hurricane Irene uprooted trees which crashed into houses in the neighborhood on Saturday night, August 27, 2011. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)
