Hospitality_Recreation

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Antipasti doesn't have to be a selection of cheeses and cured meats when summer offers up a harvest of colorful vegetables. (Associated Press)

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Sierra Schreiner prepares an iced coffee at Cafe Madeleine in San Francisco. Iced coffee drinks on today's coffee shop menus involve more than just 'regular coffee on the rocks.' (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Sierra Schreiner prepares an iced coffee April 27 at Cafe Madeleine in San Francisco. (Associated Press)

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The Henley model has 4,850 square feet and is priced from $1,046,995. It has a split curving staircase that leads to a gallery overlooking the two-story foyer and family room.

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Ridge Cabinet Co. in Mount Airy offers maintenance-free vinyl play sets. Sales consultant Karen Franklin said families are looking for sets that keep kids active and include slides, rock walls and other climbing elements.

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The dining room has a fireplace, decorative radiator covers, a bow window and a dumbwaiter linked to the kitchen.

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The Piedmont model at Hopewell's Landing has a center-island kitchen that opens to the adjacent breakfast area and the family room.

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Old Glory

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A 10-foot bronze statue of Ronald Reagan unveiled July 4 in London as a 2012 Republican presidential candidate? One headline would have it so. (Image courtesy of the U.S. Embassy, London)

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** FILE ** Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin waves during the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

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Restaurant patrons, from left, Mary Wilbanks, Lindsay Ingram and Mince Duncan, react to the not guilty verdict in Casey Anthony murder trial in Daytona Beach, Fla., Tuesday, July 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Daytona Beach News-Journal, Nigel Cook)

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Cleanup crews work to collect oil from alongside the Yellowstone River in Laurel, Mont., on July 4, 2011. An ExxonMobil pipeline near Laurel ruptured and spilled an estimated 1,000 barrels of crude into the Yellowstone. (Associated Press)

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PYROTECHNICS: Fourth of July fireworks light up the sky over the National Mall on Monday night, to the delight of tens of thousands of rapt spectators. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Anne Byrd Fickling, 7, of Fredericksburg, Va., waits for the sun to set and the fireworks to start at the base of the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Corydon Swift Turner (under the hammock), 12, and his brother, Afton Swift Turner, 6, of Fairfax enjoy the day on the Mall as they wait for the fireworks marking the nation's 235th birthday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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The Fullen family of Washington watch the Independence Day fireworks display on the National Mall in Washington on Monday, July 4, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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People watch the fireworks over the Washington Monument during the Independence Day fireworks display on the National Mall in Washington on Monday, July 4, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)