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Kayn Clark (center), 10, of Clearwater, Fla., and his parents, Daniel and Brandi Clark, watch from the roadside on Friday, July 8, 2011, as the space shuttle Atlantis launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, about seven miles away. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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Onlookers in Titusville, Fla., watch from the roadside on Friday, July 8, 2011, as the space shuttle Atlantis launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, about seven miles away. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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Onlookers in Titusville, Fla., watch from the roadside on Friday, July 8, 2011, as the space shuttle Atlantis launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, about seven miles away. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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The space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center Friday, July 8, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis is the 135th and final space shuttle launch for NASA. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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The space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center Friday, July 8, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis is the 135th and final space shuttle launch for NASA. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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Atlantis astronauts, from left, mission specialist Sandra Magnus, pilot Doug Hurley, commander Chris Ferguson and mission specialist Rex Walhelm leave the operations and check up building enroute to the pad for at the Kennedy Space Center Friday, July 8, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis is the 135th and final space shuttle launch for NASA. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
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A Grand Rapids police car that was both hit and fired upon sits on the corner of Division and Fulton in Grand Rapids, Mich. after Roderick Dantzler, suspected in fatal shootings at two separate homes that killed seven people, led police on a high speed chase Thursday, July 7, 2011. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Ryan M.L. Young)
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Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida'ie (right), Iraqi ambassador to the United States, looks closely at a Western Asiatic necklace (circa third to second millennium B.C.) during a repatriation ceremony of Iraqi antiquities at the Iraqi Cultural Center in Washington on Thursday, July 7, 2011. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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A Western Asiatic necklace (circa third to second millennium B.C.) sits on a table with other artifacts during a repatriation ceremony of Iraqi antiquities. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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A coin is one of the many artifacts on display during a repatriation ceremony of Iraqi antiquities at the Iraqi Cultural Center in Washington on Thursday, July 7, 2011. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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The space shuttle Atlantis sits on the launch pad as a rain cloud passes the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Thursday, July 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
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Outback Play Systems in Chantilly sells Rainbow Play Systems, a popular brand purchased by the Obama family. John Gray, owner of Outback, suggests getting a set that can grown with the family.
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The brick row house at 1704 P St. NW is on the market for $1,395,000. It was built in 1890 and has five bedrooms, two full baths and two half baths spread over four levels.
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The upper-level library has a reading nook with built-in bookshelves tucked under an arched ceiling. The room also could be a bedroom.
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The main level of the Piedmont model has a study, family room and kitchen across the back of the home. Buyers can add a morning room, a family-room extension and a fireplace to this area.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood issued cost-cutting recommendations for the new Dulles Metrorail station in a July 3 memo that include building a cheaper above-ground alternative. Mr. Lahood's suggestions would pull the cost from an expected $3.8 billion to $2.7 billion.
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**FILE** Kenneth E. Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), speaks at a news conference in Houston in April 2009. (Associated Press)
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President Obama on Tuesday talks with reporters about debt-ceiling negotiations. Regarding a short-term fix, he said: "I don't share that view." (Associated Press)
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Newt Gingrich has the Iowa-based press saying he's coming back. Not everyone, however, thinks he rates a second look.
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Ron Barber, director for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' district office, hugs a co-worker on his first day back to work Tuesday in Tucson, Ariz. Mr. Barber was shot in the cheek and thigh during the rampage, which killed six people and injured 13. (Associated Press)
