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The Woodlawn model has a family room with a wall of windows, a study, a formal living room, a formal dining room and a center-island kitchen with an adjacent breakfast area. Upstairs are four bedrooms and three full baths.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Tiger Woods, shown practicing for the PGA Championship, hasn't won a major since the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines.
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**FILE** A pair of giraffes graze in Akagera National Park in eastern Rwanda in 2003. The number of animals in the park declined drastically from the early 1990s due to poaching and unrest. (Associated Press)
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Customers stand in line as Jaqueline Henderson, right, prepares to pump gas at a station in Portland, Ore., Friday, July 29, 2011. President Barack Obama and top auto executives are set to unveil details of a compromise to slash the amount of gasoline cars and trucks will need down the road. The deal will double fuel economy standards to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 and further restrict the tailpipe emissions blamed for global warming. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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**FILE** In this photo from March 24, 2011, a young evacuee is screened at a shelter for leaked radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Fukushima, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Tiger Woods (center) walks off the 18th green at Firestone Country Club after finishing his first tournament since the Masters.
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"I do have a resume that suggests that I am very credible," says former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. (Barbara Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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In this Aug. 5, 2011, photo, Emmanuel Hignutt with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation health lab shows samples of orange goo in Anchorage, Alaska. The samples were collected Aug. 3, 2011, in Kivalina, Alaska, after the mysterious goo came in from the Wulik River into the village's harbor. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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In this photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011, fishing boats are seen parked in the Shenjiamen Harbor in Zhoushan in east China's Zhejiang province. China warned residents and alerted emergency relief centers Friday to prepare for Typhoon Muifa to hit the country's heavily populated eastern coast. (AP Photo)
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** FILE ** A U.S. Marine, perched on a container, tries to take shelter from the dust as a Chinook helicopter arrives to pick up supplies at Forward Operating Base Edi in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, June 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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Associated Press Thomas Bigham, a Texas state park police officer, walks across the cracked bed of O.C. Fisher Lake on Wednesday in San Angelo, Texas. Weeks of 100-plus-degree heat and a lack of rain have left the 5,400-acre lake parched.
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K. Hovnanian Homes is building 32 single-family homes on half-acre sites at Raspberry Falls in Leesburg. The Truman model, with 4,283 square feet, is priced from $634,990.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS This artist's rendering shows a simulation of a collision between the moon and a companion moon about 4 billion years ago. Earth once had a second moon until it made the fatal mistake of smacking the moon in what some are calling the "big splat," astronomers now theorize.
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** FILE ** "Kitler," the kitten who was overlooked for adoption because of her resemblance to Adolf Hitler, found a loving home after hundreds of applications flooded the Wood Green Animal Shelter. (Daily Caller)
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This image taken at 2:32 a.m. EDT on Aug. 3, 2011, shows Tropical Storm Emily. The storm brushed past Puerto Rico and set its sights on the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where more than 630,000 people are still without shelter after last year's earthquake. (Associated Press/NASA)
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Geologist Matt Joeckel displays a core sample of carbonatite rock containing niobium and rare-earth elements, which was taken from a deposit near Elk Creek, Neb., in early February. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS The Dawn spacecraft launched by NASA took this photo of the pockmarked surface of the asteroid Vesta from 9,500 miles away. The data gathered by the craft over the next year should help future manned missions.
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A man walks by burning garbage in downtown Port-au-Prince. The country's new president launched what was termed "reconstruction week" to rebuild. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A model poses for a weekly "drink and draw" at the 3rd Ward artist's cooperative in Bushwick in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Still a largely industrial area and recovering from years as a bastion for gangs, Bushwick's sordid history is becoming overshadowed by the influx of artists flocking to the area in search of affordability and space.
