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Some hot air balloons fly as crews inflate others early Friday, July 23, 2010, at the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, in Readington, N.J. The festival runs through Sunday, July 25, 2010. (AP Photo/ Mel Evans)
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Hot air balloons are inflated early Friday morning, July 23, 2010, at the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, in Readington, N.J. The festival runs through Sunday, July 25, 2010. (AP Photo/ Mel Evans)
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A hot air balloon flies in the early morning Friday, July 23, 2010, at the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning in Readington, N.J. The festival runs through Sunday, July 25, 2010. (AP Photo/ Mel Evans)
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People inflate hot air balloons early Friday, July 23, 2010, at the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning in Readington, N.J. The festival runs through Sunday, July 25, 2010. (AP Photo/ Mel Evans)
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**FILE** This image from the Huntington Beach, Calif., Police Department shows Robert Rizzo, former city manager of Bell, Calif., who was arrested near his home in Huntington Beach in March and charged with misdemeanor drunken driving. (Associated Press/Huntington Beach Police Department)
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A hipster walks by the Macri Park bar in the Williamsburg section of the New York borough of Brooklyn. The bar is one venue that hosts “hipster speed dating,” where groups of people have microdates at events such as "The Internet Killed Your Social Skills." (Associated Press)
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The fenced yard contains a patio that is accessed through French doors. The brick wall of the adjacent garage includes an arched niche that can be used for a potted plant or sculpture.
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The home at 5708 Little Falls Road in Arlington is on the market for $899,000. The five-bedroom home was built in 1937.
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Buyers can customize their homes with a fireplace with a marble surround or a floor-to-ceiling stone surround.
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The Dixon model includes a library, a center-island kitchen with a breakfast area, a family room, and formal living and dining rooms on the main level. Upstairs are the master bedroom with a sitting area, luxury bath and walk-in closet; two additional bedrooms share a hall bath.
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The center-island kitchen in the Dixon model at the Village of Idlewild has 42-inch cabinets and recessed lighting. It has 2,508 square feet and is priced from $259,990 to $279,990.
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Ryland Homes is building 875 single-family homes at the Village of Idlewild in the city of Fredericksburg. The homes have approximately 2,200 to 3,540 finished square feet, with base prices from $241,990 to $344,990.
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The Hampton model includes more than 4,700 finished square feet with a two-story family room, a formal dining room, a study, a breakfast area off the center-island kitchen and a formal living room on the first level.
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Ken Jacowitz, from Queens, N.Y., eats a serving of lobster bisque soup from the reopened Original SoupMan takeout restaurant in New York, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. "This is really good soup," said Jacowitz, who was among about 100 people lined up for the reopening of the takeout that inspired the Soup Nazi character on "Seinfeld." (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Tiger Woods of the United States chips onto the 17th green during the third round of the British Open Golf Championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, Saturday, July 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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Shoppers throng to a popular mall in Caracas in November 2006. Consumerism remains strong, creating resistance to socialism as Mr. Chavez looks to September's congressional elections.
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A separate security lane has been created for people who have licenses for concealed handguns, allowing them to bypass lines at the metal detectors. Capitol insiders are now signing up in droves for the course that will get them a gun license, now known as the express pass.
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Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams addresses a crowd March 30 in Salt Lake City. A spokesman for the National Tea Party Federation on Sunday said the organization has expelled the Tea Party Express from its ranks for refusing to oust Mr. Williams after he posted a blog that satirized the NAACP and referred to its president, Benjamin Jealous, as "Tom's nephew and NAACP head colored person."
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Regulators and retailers are concerned that kombucha may need to be regulated as an alcoholic drink because some bottles of the fermented tea have more than 0.5 percent alcohol.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Cyclists pass outside a locked exit that keeps lower-income migrants from China's rural areas in their gated village at night.
