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Photograph provided by Roger LIn The Passive House in South Arlington features a modular scheme the uses shallow square trays of plants.
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Jonathan Marrero of Silver Spring (right) talks Wednesday with Juan NaVarrete, citizenship coordinator for Casa de Maryland, at the organization’s Hyattsville office. He was among hundreds of young immigrants there asking about work permits. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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“That means seniors would no longer have the guarantee of Medicare,” President Obama said in Dubuque, Iowa, on Wednesday. “They’d get a voucher to buy ... insurance, and ... the plan offered by ... Ryan, would force seniors to pay an extra $6,300 a year, and I assume they don’t have that.” (Associated Press)
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Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, seen here in happier times in August 2011, were married for 72 days when she filed for divorce. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Members of the group Casa de Maryland rally June 15, 2012, outside the White House in Washington to support President Obama's announcement that the U.S. government will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. (Associated Press)
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Minority Leader Anthony J. O’Donnell, Calvert Republican, addresses his fellow delegates during Tuesday’s special session at on expanding gambling in the state. “The votes didn’t exist for the underlying issue so this was offered,” he said of an amendment on gambling in veterans halls. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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George Allen, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Virginia, has declined repeatedly to indicate whether he firmly supports the Medicare reform proposal being championed by his party’s vice-presidential nominee-in-waiting. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Michael Mendez is seen in an undated photo provided by the New Jersey State Police. A state police gang unit was searching Mendez's Paterson, N.J., apartment for drugs Thursday, Aug. 8, 2012, when detectives found his 44-year-old girlfriend in a locked bedroom. (AP Photo/New Jersey State Police)
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The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List will visit 30 cities in five swing states with the message that “abortion is not health care.” (Susan B. Anthony List)
