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Associated Press Protein-rich but plain, nuts have always been the utility players of the snack world. Until now, that is. Clockwise from top are sweet butter-roasted almonds, smoky crusted walnuts and citrus-herb pistachios.

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Associated Press Protein-rich but plain, nuts have always been the utility players of the snack world. Until now, that is. Clockwise from top are sweet butter-roasted almonds, smoky crusted walnuts and citrus-herb pistachios.

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Syrians living in makeshift tents inside Syria near the Turkish border village of Guvecci are seen shortly before Turkey's Red Cresdent distribute free food alongside Turkey-Syria border near the Turkish village of Guvecci in Hatay province, Turkey, on June 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

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The Arlington home is on the market for $935,000. Built in 2003, the home has four bedrooms, three full baths and a powder room.

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The fenced backyard of the home at 728 N. Barton St. in Arlington has a flagstone patio and space for gardening.

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The lower-level recreation room has glass doors that open to steps leading to the flagstone patio and backyard.

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Built in 1886, the home at 6058 Willow Oak Road in Eastville, Va., could be reconverted for use as a bed and breakfast. It is on the market for $348,843.

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Waterford Development is building 89 condominiums at Rhodes Hill Square in Arlington. The three low-rise buildings have a red brick exterior and white trim.

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Photographs by Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times Kathy Jentz, editor of Washington Gardner magazine, does some weeding around her Silver Spring cottage garden. Ms. Jentz says in the informal cottage garden, flowers can bleed over into other beds and even into pathways. The goal, she says, is to have something in bloom all year round.

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Cottage gardens often feature quaint or comfortable accessories, such as a picket fence or stone pathway.

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A bee pollinates some lavendar in Kathy Jentz's Silver Spring, Md., cottage garden on Monday, June 20, 2011. According to Jentz, editor of Washington Gardner magazine, a cottage garden is perhaps the most informal of all gardens. Flowers can bleed over into other beds and even into pathways, and it's ok. The goal, she says, is to have something in bloom all year round. Lavendar is another old-fashioned plant that grandma might have had in her own garden. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Part of making her cottage garden homier is adding touches like this bench, a pillow, and using patterned boots as a planter for Silver Spring, Md., gardener Kathy Jentz, who is also editor of Washington Gardener magazine. This image was made Monday, June 20, 2011. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Family and friends of some of the crash victims spend time at a personal, makeshift memorial on The Charles A. Langley Bridge near the Fort Totten Metro Station in Washington, D.C. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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At Seoul's Koreana Hotel, guests are provided a Bible and a gas mask — a sign of South Koreans' growing suspicions of North Korea's military intentions. (Ben Birnbaum/The Washington Times)

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A memorial plaque is displayed during a wreath laying ceremony at the Fort Totten Metro Station in Washington, D.C., for the nine people killed in the June 22, 2009 Metrorail crash. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Brittnae Rowe displays a tattoo in the name of her best friend Lavonda "Nikki" King, who was one of nine people killed in the June 22, 2009, Metrorail crash, during a memorial service and wreath laying ceremony at the Fort Totten Metrorail Station in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Yuma Mayor Al Krieger stands by a life-size cutout of himself in Yuma, Ariz., on June 16, 2011. When placed in hotel lobbies, the cutout of the mayor wearing a raincoat and toting an umbrella will signal an official cloudy day, triggering Code Gloom, a promotion that will offer hotel guests free meals on sunless days. (AP Photo/Yuma Sun, Mara Knaub)