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Mitchell & Best Homebuilders is building singe-family homes at Walnut Grove in Clarksville. The Eagle's Nest model, with 5,695 square feet, is priced from $1,099,900.
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The living room has a gas fireplace, track lighting and built-in bookshelves. The home's first and second levels have hardwood floors.
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Kaisei Kubota and his grandmother, Yae, pray Saturday for victims in the northeastern Japanese town of Miyako, part of an area devastated by the March 11 tsunami. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)
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In this photo taken June 14, 2011, China Alley is shown in Hanford, Calif. China Alley, a Chinese neighborhood in this small, rural town, once bustled with a temple, herb shops and gambling dens. Now what once was one of the biggest Chinatown's between San Francisco and Los Angeles has been named one of America's 11 most endangered historic places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka)
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Employees go about their business in Boeing Co.'s $750 million final assembly plant in North Charleston, S.C., on Friday. The company's new 787 jetliner assembly plant is at the center of a National Labor Relations Board dispute. (Associated Press)
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A ruptured levee on the Missouri River near Hamburg, Iowa, sends floodwaters over rural farmland on Monday, June 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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In this photo taken on a government-organized tour, a damaged Libyan army vehicle sits behind a damaged wall next to a gas production plant outside the town of Janzour, near Tripoli, Libya, on Monday, June 13, 2011. The facility was struck by a NATO bomb on Saturday evening, according to plant's director. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Smithsonian research botanist John Kress said the app that identifies American trees via smartphone pictures initially was meant as a way for scientists to discover new species in unknown habitats.
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W. John Kress displays the Leafsnap app on his iPhone along with tree leaf specimens at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum's specimen storage room in Washington. The free app "is going to be able to populate a database of every tree in the United States," he said. "I mean that's millions and millions and millions of trees, so that would be really neat." (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks during the dedication of Boeing Co.'s $750 million final assembly plant in North Charleston, S.C., on Friday, June 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
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**FILE** In this photo from June 5, 2011, greenhouses at an organic farm that grows bean sprouts are photographed in the Uelzen district of northern Germany. (Associated Press)
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A firefighter sets a backfire Thursday in an effort to contain the Wallow Fire along Highway 260 near Eagar, Ariz. A spot fire at the edge of the larger blaze prompted the few residents left in Springerville and neighboring communities to flee. (Associated Press)
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In 1964, after Alaska was shaken by a 9.2-magnitude earthquake, Crescent City was hit hardest by the tsunami surges, which included a 21-foot wave that flooded the town and killed 11 people. (Photo provided by Del Norte, Calif., Historical Society)
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Sunken and damaged boats litter a basin at Crescent City the day after a powerful earthquake sent a tsunami across the Pacific Ocean. The surge of water broke up docks and bounced boats around the basin like billiard balls. (Associated Press)
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Many Americans trying to sell their homes are having to make some adjustments. Nearly 25 percent of the nation's 74.5 million homeowners have negative equity in their homes, and another 25 percent are nearing that point. (Associated Press)
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The no-baking-required ice cream cake has two flavors of ice cream, two sauces and cherries on the top. (Associated Press)
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The no-baking-required ice cream cake has two flavors of ice cream, two sauces and cherries on the top. (Associated Press)
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Micah Loma'omvaya talks about petroglyphs as a part of an agriculture tour on the Hopi reservation in Northern Arizona. (Associated Press)
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The Wallow fire burns towards Eagar, Ariz., north of Greer, Ariz., on June 8, 2011. The fire in eastern Arizona that already forced thousands from their homes headed Wednesday for a pair of transmission lines that supply electricity to hundreds of thousands of people as far east as Texas. (Associated Press/The Arizona Republic)
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Farmer Mario Walter mulches thousands of salads on his field in Nieder-Erlenbach near Frankfurt on June 8, 2011. After an outbreak of E. coli that has killed at least 25 people and sickened hundreds in Europe, salads and other vegetables can hardly be sold in Germany. (Associated Press)
