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A march through the village of Whistler, British Columbia, on Saturday protests the slaughter of 100 sled dogs owned by Howling Dog Tours Whistler. The owner's claim that the dogs were old and sick is challenged. (Associated Press)

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Gina Alickolli returns to the bus stop shelter to wait for her connection as another commuter climbs over a snow bank to catch a ride during a recent blizzard in Chicago. A poll shows that people in the Midwest are most likely to get depressed in the winter. (Associated Press)

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Gregg Donovan has spent much of the past dozen years in top hat and tails giving directions, posing for photos, promoting local businesses and shouting to tourists in dozens of languages, "Welcome to Beverly Hills. You have arrived." (Associated Press)

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South Sudanese construction workers walk beside the country's largest swimming pool in Rock City, a complex of 160 apartments and hotel rooms under construction in Juba, Sudan, on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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Mr. Singh demonstrates the speak2tweet program at Google's Mountain View , Calif., headquarters. The service takes phone messages and links them to Twitter

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FILE - In this Friday, July 6, 2001 file photo, Irish musician Gary Moore performs on the Stravinski hall stage during the " Rock'n Blues" at the opening night of the 35th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland. Bandmates say rock guitarist Gary Moore, a former member of influential Irish band Thin Lizzy, has died. He was 58. Manager Adam Parsons told the BBC that Moore was found dead Sunday at a hotel on Spain's Costa del Sol, where he was on holiday. The cause of death was not immediately known. (AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini, File)

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Mr. Singh demonstrates the speak2tweet program at Google's Mountain View , Calif., headquarters The service takes phone messages and links them to Twitter

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A mountain of snow towers over a parking lot in Methuen, Mass., on Tuesday. Record snowfalls without thaws have Boston and other cities considering dumping snow into their waterways.

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Rick Bacon stands outside Camp 6 in Pt. Defiance Park, Wash. on Feb. 3, 2011. Bacon, has been associated with the operation and managed the camp as a volunteer for 22 years. For 47 years, the Camp 6 Logging Museum at Point Defiance Park has kept a window open on Western Washington's steam-logging history. But that window soon might close. The camp and its railroad shut down for the winter in December as usual might not reopen in April unless its owner can find some entity with the money to maintain and operate them. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Peter Haley)

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A cargo ship transits the Suez Canal en route from the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Suez at the city of Suez, Egypt, on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Oil has come off two-year highs above $92 earlier this week as investor fears that chaos in Egypt could disrupt the two million barrels of crude per day that pass through the Suez Canal and an adjacent pipeline eased. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Dwyane Wade and a host of NBA stars participated in the Nickelodeon Worldwide Day of Play in which children participated in a host of fitness activities. The NBA stars provided the instruction and support. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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The Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home in Dixon, Ill., is one of a number of places where the country's 40th president lived when he called the small town on the Rock River, 100 miles from Chicago, his home from 1920 through 1933. (Associated Press)

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First lady Nancy Reagan gives a loving look toward President Reagan as they walk outside the White House on July 16, 1986. The Reagans were waiting to greet their state dinner guest, Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammad Khan Junejo. (Associated Press)

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Among displays at the museum are a 1983 Cadillac presidential parade limousine that joined Reagan's motorcade in 1984, the real Air Force One and a bronze bust featuring his famous smile. (Garrett Cheen/Special to The Washington Times)

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The five-bedroom home at 2451 Kemper Road in Crofton's Walden community is on the market for $479,000. Built in 1996, the home features a one-car garage and two bay windows.

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The Warrington and Wilmington apartment buildings in the Washington Heights Historic District have been renovated and converted into the WY18 condominiums. Base prices start in the $300,000s.

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The center-island kitchen in the Bentley Place model at Holly Manor has hardwood floors, 42-inch cabinets and granite counters.

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Craftmark Homes is building more than 70 single-family homes on 17,945-square-foot sites at Oak Creek in Upper Marlboro. The homes have 2,748 to 5,136 finished square feet, with base prices from $464,900 to $634,900.

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The Clifton model has more than 3,800 finished square feet and can be expanded with a morning room; room extensions; a finished attic with a bedroom, bath and playroom; and a finished lower-level recreation room with a den, bath and wet bar.