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In this photo taken on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, Lois Lucci, 53, sits next to her dialysis machine at her home in Redondo Beach, Calif. Lucci likes the idea of dialysis while she sleeps, so she could have the day free when she's not working part-time as a nurse. Only about 8 percent of dialysis patients choose to do it in their own homes. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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In this photo taken on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, Lois Lucci, 53, sits next to her dialysis machine at her home in Redondo Beach, Calif. Lucci likes the idea of dialysis while she sleeps, so she could have the day free when she's not working part-time as a nurse. Only about 8 percent of dialysis patients choose to do it in their own homes. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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The InterContinental hotel is shown on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, in New York. Carlos Castro, a 65-year-old Portuguese television journalist, was found castrated and bludgeoned to death in the hotel, and his companion, a male model who had recently been a contestant on a Portuguese reality TV show, was in police custody Saturday. Workers at the hotel discovered the mutilated body at about 7 p.m. Friday after a friend of Castro became worried. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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Edison Pena talks Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, in Memphis, Tenn., about how he listened to Elvis Presley music while he was trapped with 32 other miners for 69 days in a collapsed mine in Chile. Pena, an Elvis fan who led other miners in Elvis songs to help pass the time while waiting to be rescued, was invited to tour Graceland by Elvis Presley Enterprises. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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The Torino has a family room with a fireplace, a dining room and a study across the back of the house. Upstairs are four bedrooms and two full baths.
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The row home at 3023 O St. NW in the East Village of Georgetown was built around 1905 and completely renovated and reconstructed in 2006 and 2007. It is on the market for $2,050,000.
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The formal dining room has a chandelier, faux-painted walls and pine flooring. A butler's pantry and wet bar with a granite counter separate the dining room and kitchen.
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The home at 1355 Windy Hill Road in McLean is on the market for $1,395,000. The all-brick home has five bedrooms.
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The home's current owner renovated the kitchen, updating appliances and opening walls to create plenty of space for entertaining.
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The Emerson model includes a two-story family room, a library, a formal living room, a formal dining room, and a center-island kitchen with a breakfast area on the main level. Buyers can add a sunroom off the kitchen.
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The Emerson model at the Manors at Ridgefield Estates has a center-island kitchen with 42-inch cabinets, granite counters and recessed lighting. The kitchen is open to the breakfast area. The Emerson is priced from $559,900.
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The Hylton Group is building 114 single-family homes on half-acre sites at the Manors at Ridgefield Estates in Dale City. The homes have 2,709 to 3,254 finished square feet, with base prices from $519,900 to $566,900.
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James Donovan, founder and executive director of the Marine Corps War Memorial Foundation, places a wreath at the memorial during the Christmas wreath-laying ceremony on Dec. 13. "As far as updates, we haven't kept pace with the times and its needs," said Mr. Donovan, a former Marine corporal who served at the monument's Silent Drill Platoon from 1964 to 1968. (Sgt. Jimmy D. Shea/USMC)
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TIME TAKES ITS TOLL: On the marble wall of the memorial where the history of battles is etched in gold, decay is visible in the streaks on the monument and the chips in the paint. (Rod Lamkey Jr./Special to The Washington Times)
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The hands holding up the American flag are worn. Members of the Marine Corps War Memorial Foundation are trying to raise money to make improvements to the monument, which was dedicated in 1954. (Rod Lamkey Jr./Special to The Washington Times)
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The face of a Marine, his face chipped in two places, shows the need for repair to the Iwo Jima memorial in Arlington, Va. (Rod Lamkey Jr./Special to The Washington Times)
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Funds are being raised to make improvements to the Iwo Jima war memorial, including a museum-grade cleaning and wax sealing. (Rod Lamkey Jr./Special to The Washington Times)
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Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, throws a wooden cross into the Golden Horn during an Epiphany ceremony to bless the water in Istanbul on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Similar ceremonies to mark Epiphany were held across Greece on river banks, seafronts and lakes. Bartholomew threw the cross into the water, and swimmers raced to be the first to retrieve it. (AP/Ibrahim Usta)
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Law enforcement officials escort people from another restaurant to their cars outside a Baja Fresh restaurant Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 in Chandler, Ariz. Chandler police spokesman Sgt. Joe Favazzo says a gunman entered a Baja Fresh restaurant and fired a gun in what police think was a warning to customers following a shooting at the Chandler Mall. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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A law enforcement official marks bullet casings in the parking lot Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 outside the Chandler Mall in Chandler, Ariz. following a shooting at the Mall. (AP Photo/Matt York)
