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DREW ANGERER/THE WASHINGTON TIMES England's Prince Charles greets onlookers as he tours Common Good City Farm in Northwest on Tuesday. The mission of the farm is to build awareness of healthy, local, sustainable food systems.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS "Getting to know them, and them you, matters," said former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who started Tuesday in Ames, Iowa, meeting residents at a Pizza Ranch restaurant for breakfast.

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY DREW ANGERER/THE WASHNGTON TIMES Liam LaCivita, executive chief of Lyon Hall restaurant in Arlington, grills half-smokes on the rooftop terrace of Domaso Restaurant during the Top Dog Half-Smoke Challenge on Sunday. He braised short ribs and used a mustard made with beer from a local brewer for his half-smokes.

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DREW ANGERER/THE WASHINGTON TIMES Dennis Marron, head chef at Jackson 20 Restaurant, serves a hickory-smoked half-smoke to a patron on the rooftop terrace of Domaso Restaurant. The winning entry in the friendly competition was Firefly restaurant on Dupont Circle with its fennel sausage and half-smoke bacon chili entry.

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Ed Witt, chef at 701 Restaurant, grills pork belly and beef cheek half-smokes for the competition Sunday that was a benefit for Brain Food, an organization that teaches inner city kids cooking and life skills.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS The loan of $26 million from a World Bank branch to Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal for a luxury hotel in Ghana has drawn criticism.

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The Harvard model at Hope Hill Crossing includes a center-island kitchen that opens to a breakfast area and family room. Upstairs are four bedrooms and two full baths. The master-suite sitting room can become a fifth bedroom.

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The step-down family room has a limestone fireplace. The room opens to a terrace on one side and a screened porch on the other.

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** FILE ** Daniel Mangione, a chef at the Ritz-Carlton in Georgetown, prepares cupcakes. (NICHOLAS GINGOLD/SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Adam Boesel operates a stationary bike that is hooked up to a generator at the Green Microgym in Portland, Ore.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Dan Carpenter works to get on track for a replica of the Zippin Pippin, Elvis Presley's favorite roller coaster, at Bay Beach Amusement Park in Green Bay, Wis. Mayoral candidate Patrick Evans complained early and often about the $3.5 million cost, but his campaign "got swept up in the tidal wave" of the collective bargaining fight in Madison.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Investigators collect evidence at King Soopers grocery store morning in Boulder, Colo., where a suspect in a case involving an undetonated pipe bomb and two propane tanks at a Denver-area shopping mall on April 20 was arrested.

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An employee of a Georgetown waterfront restaurant tosses beer bottles into a trash bin outside the Washington Harbour complex Thursday. Because of water damage from flooding, the restaurants have been forced to discard food, beverages and equipment. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Cleanup along the Georgetown waterfront at the Washington Harbour complex (top) in the District continued Thursday, following flooding earlier in the week. Teams from a property-restoration firm power-wash the deck below the waterfront's restaurants. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Jesus Gillian (left) and Boly Vasquez, who both work for Cabanas restaurant on the Georgetown waterfront, toss wine bottles into a trash bin Thursday. Water damage from massive flooding earlier in the week forced restaurants to discard food, furniture and more. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)