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Trayvon Martin’s Parents Speak on Capitol Hill Trayvon Martin’s parents spoke briefly Tuesday at a Capitol Hill forum, thanking those who turned their 17-year-old son’s death into a rallying cry against racial profiling. The admitted shooter, George Zimmerman, has not been arrested or charged. (AP) M7I>?D=JED

Congress Sends Startup Investment Bill to Obama Despite warnings that less government oversight might mean more scams, Congress on Tuesday sent President Obama legislation he endorsed making it easier for startups to raise capital without running afoul of federal regulations. The legislation is on course to be one of the few achievements this year for a Congress mired in partisan divisions. (AP)

Health Care Linchpin in Jeopardy Justices signal deep trouble for mandate in Obama’s overhaul

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Health care reform supporters and opponents rally Tuesday at the Supreme Court.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Tuesday she found the debate over health care similar to an earlier era’s argument about the Social Security retirement system. How could Congress be able to compel younger workers to contribute to Social Security but be limited in its ability to address health care? she wondered. “The government can take over the whole thing ... but if the government wants to preserve private insurers, it can’t do that,” she said. (AP)

the mandate for Americans to have insurance “is a step beyond what our cases allow,” in the words of Justice Anthony Kennedy.

But Kennedy, who is often the swing vote on cases that divide the justices along ideological lines, also said he recognized the magnitude of the nation’s health care problems and seemed to suggest they would require a comprehensive solution.

He and Chief Justice John Roberts emerged as the apparent pivotal votes in the court’s decision.

The ruling is due in June.

Final arguments on Wednesday will focus on whether the rest of the law can remain even if the insurance mandate is struck down and, separately, on the constitutionality of another provision expanding the federal-state Medicaid program. MARK SHERMAN (AP)

MWi^_d]jed President Obama’s health care overhaul was cast into peril Tuesday as the Supreme Court’s conservative justices sharply and repeatedly questioned its core requirement that virtually every American carry insurance. The court will now take up whether any remnant of the historic law can survive if that linchpin fails.

The justices’ questions in Tuesday’s hearing carried deeply serious implications but were sometimes flavored with fanciful suggestions.

If the government can force people to buy health insurance, justices wanted to know, can it require people to buy burial insurance? Cellphones? Broccoli?

The law, pushed to passage by Obama and congressional Democrats two years ago, would affect nearly all Americans and extend insurance coverage to 30 million people who now lack it. Republi-

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The captain of Flight 191 from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport had a “medical situation” and the co-pilot diverted the plane to land in Amarillo, Texas, around 10 a.m., JetBlue Airways said in a statement.

Josh Redick, a passenger sitting near the middle of the plane, said the pilot “stormed out” of the cockpit.

Tony Antolino, a 40-year-old executive for a security firm, said the captain walked to the back of the plane, that he seemed disorient-

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ed and agitated, then began yelling about an unspecified threat linked to Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.

“They’re going to take us down, they’re taking us down, they’re going to take us down. Say the Lord’s prayer, say the Lord’s prayer,” the captain screamed, according to Antolino.

Gabriel Schonzeit, who was sitting in the third row, said the captain said there could be a bomb on board the flight: “He started screaming about al-Qaeda and possibly a bomb on the plane and Iraq and Iran and about how we were all going down.”

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ing “erratic behavior,” so the co-pilot locked him out of the cockpit, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.

Antolino said he and three others tackled the captain as he ran for the cockpit door, pinned him and held him down while the plane landed at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport.

“That’s how we landed,” he said. “There were four of us on top of him. ... And that’s how we landed.”

JetBlue said the ill captain was taken to a medical facility in Amarillo. B E T S Y B L A N E Y A N D O S K A R GARCIA (AP)

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The damage assessment at Fukushima Dai-ichi’s No. 2 reactor was just the second since the devastating tsunami swept into the plant a year ago. (AP) F7H?I

Jewish Boy, 12, Attacked A 12-year-old boy was beaten outside his Jewish school in Paris by youths reciting anti-Semitic slogans on Monday, school officials said Tuesday. The attack comes amid high tensions in France after a gunman shot and killed a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school. (AP)

Syria Accepts U.N. Peace Plan Skepticism remains high that Assad will abide by cease-fire GWW" B[XWded Syria accepted a cease-fire drawn up by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan on Tuesday, but the diplomatic breakthrough was swiftly overshadowed by intense clashes between government soldiers and rebels that sent bullets flying into Lebanon.

Opposition members accused President Bashar Assad of agreeing to the plan to stall for time as his troops make a renewed push to kill off bastions of dissent. And the conflict just gets deadlier: The U.N. said the death toll has grown

7ddWdÊi FWj^ je F[WY[ U.N. envoy Kofi Annan drafted a six-part plan for peace in Syria that begins with an immediate, twohour halt in fighting every day to allow humanitarian access. The plan also calls for a complete cease-fire, though that will take more time because Syria must first move troops and equipment out of cities and towns, government forces and the divided opposition must stop fighting, and a U.N.-supervised monitoring mission must be established. (AP)

to more than 9,000, a sobering assessment of a devastating yearold crackdown on the uprising.

Annan’s announcement that Syria had accepted his peace plan was met with deep skepticism.

“We are not sure if it’s political maneuvering or a sincere act,”

said Louay Safi, a member of the opposition Syrian National Council. “We have no trust in the current regime.”

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Assad’s decision to accept the plan was only a first step.

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“We will continue to judge the Syrian regime by its practical actions, not by its often-empty words,” he said.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Assad must now act.

“Given Assad’s history of overpromising and under-delivering, that commitment must now be matched by immediate action,” Clinton said in Washington.

Despite the high-level diplomacy, the situation on the ground remained as bloody as ever, and there were conflicting reports about whether Syrian troops physically crossed the border into Lebanon during heavy fighting near a rural area around the Lebanese village of Qaa. BASSEM MROUE (AP)

J^[ dkcX[h e\ m[Xi_j[i that Brazil is asking to remove sexual content that promotes Latin America’s biggest country as a sex tourism destination, the nation’s Tourism Ministry said Tuesday. Tackling the websites is part of a campaign to combat the sexual exploitation of minors leading up to and during the 2014 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro. (AP)

Speaking to the mics intentionally this time and seeking to contain a controversial gaffe, President Obama offered assurances Tuesday that he had no hidden agenda with Russia for a second term.

Obama got caught on tape Monday telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a nuclear security summit that he would have more room to negotiate on missile defense after the November election, presumably expecting to win.

“This is not a matter of hiding the ball,” Obama said Tuesday.

“I’m on record.”

His explanation: He wants to work with Russia on the divisive issue of a missile defense shield in Europe. And there’s no way to expect progress during the politics of this election year, so he is already looking to 2013. (AP)

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Al-Jazeera on Tuesday decided not to air the video, which seems to have been filmed from the killer’s point of view and includes the cries of his victims. President Nicolas Sarkozy had asked the network not to broadcast it.

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His comments came in an interview aired Tuesday by France 24 TV. (AP)

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Prosecutors have said that Merah filmed all of his attacks, which began March 11 with the murder of a French soldier. Before the spree ended, two more soldiers and three Jewish children and a rabbi were killed, while two other people were wounded.

Police said Merah claimed the attacks and had told them he had links to al-Qaeda.

French officials say they have found no sign of a link between Merah and al-Qaeda or other terror networks. (AP)

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C[Wdm^_b[ $$$ More than 50 world leaders, including President Obama, gathered in South Korea at a nuclear security summit this week to reaffirm controls on nuclear material that might be acquired by terrorists. Obama met with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday, breaking a four-month moratorium on direct top-level contacts with Islamabad. Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is a main reason the U.S. struggles to promote a stable and friendly government there, and the White House said the threat of nuclear terrorism was a top issue that Obama and Gilani discussed. (AP)

A recent study looks at the damage that could result from a nuclear blast in D.C.

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This is what the U.S. government imagines would happen if terrorists set off a nuclear bomb just blocks from the White House: The explosion would destroy everything in every direction within a half mile. An intense flash would blind drivers on the Beltway miles away. A radioactive cloud would drift toward Baltimore.

But the surprising conclusion? Just a bit farther from the epicenter of the blast, such a nuclear explosion would be pretty survivable.

A little-noticed U.S. government study explores what would happen if terrorists got their hands on enough nuclear material to explode a 10-kiloton nuclear bomb, roughly 5,000 times more powerful than the truck bomb that destroyed the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. But the city wouldn’t disappear from the map.

“It’s not the end of the world,” said Randy Larsen, a retired Air Force colonel and founding director of the Institute for Homeland Security. “It’s not a Cold War scenario.”

The biggest difference between the disaster that the government studied and the nightmares of incoming ICBMs from the former Soviet Union is the size of the explosion. Cold Warera fears imagined massive hydrogen bombs detonated in the sky, not a smaller device — one that might fit inside a parked van — exploding on the street.

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7j <_Yj_edWb =hekdZ P[he The intersection of 16th and K streets NW was chosen as the epicenter for the fictional nuclear bomb in a recent U.S. government study, though the report didn’t say why. The flash from the explosion would be so bright it could temporarily blind people up to 12 miles away and be seen for hundreds of miles.

The mushroom cloud — up to five miles tall — would keep its shape for only a few minutes, and the blast could break glass as far as three miles away within 10 seconds. The U.S. Capitol, the Supreme Court, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials, and the Pentagon across the Potomac River were all in areas described as “light damage,” with broken windows and mostly minor injuries. Terrified victims would try to flee the area, but going outside could expose them to deadly amounts of radiation within a few minutes. The government’s advice for everyone within 50 miles: Head downstairs into a parking garage or basement and wait. After about seven hours, radiation begins to disperse significantly, experts said. Anyone caught outside who heads indoors should remove shirts or jackets and shoes and brush their hair to remove large fallout particles. (AP)

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what we saw in the movies during the Cold War,” said Brian Michael Jenkins, a senior adviser to the president of the RAND Corporation. “If you are thinking about [a city] being wiped off the face of the earth, that’s not what happens.”

The study, “Key Response Planning Factors for the Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism,” was produced in November by the Homeland Security Department and the National Nuclear Security Administration. Even though the government considers it “for official use only” and never published it online, the study is circulating months later on scientific and government watchdog websites.

For the fictional attack in the study, the blast zone would extend just past the south lawn of the White House and as far east as the FBI headquarters.

The study predicted 323,000 injuries, with more than 45,000 dead.

“Few, if any, above-ground buildings are expected to remain structurally sound or even standing, and few people would survive” in the blast zone, it predicted. It described the blast area as a “no-go zone” for days afterward due to radiation.

The government said it expects it would send warnings afterward by television, radio, email, text message and social media services like Twitter and Facebook.

The study didn’t look at the plausibility of terrorists building a nuclear bomb or smuggling one into Washington, which is protected with radiation sensors and other technology designed to thwart such an attack.

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The NTSB, an independent agency, held a daylong exploration

about the risks posed by technology — old, new and still on the horizon — while behind the wheel.

The NTSB last year called for a ban on cellphone use while driving, putting it a step beyond the U.S. Department of Transportation and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who has led a national crusade against distracted driving.

While 35 states and the District prohibit drivers from text messaging, and nine states and the District ban hand-held cell phones, no state has banned all cellphone use.

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“It’s clear that we don’t need another decade of investigations

and recommendations,” NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman said, opening the hearing with a call to action.

Donald Fisher, a University of Massachusetts professor, said novice drivers are 16 times more likely to take a “dangerous glance” away from the road.”

“We ought to quickly move to banning cellphone use in work zones and school zones,” Fisher said.

NTSB board member Mark Rosekind cited research that underscored the risk of distractions.

“Multi-tasking is a misconception,” he said. “We all think we can do it, but we can’t.” ASHLEY HALSEY III (THE WASHINGTON POST )

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The previous high for MARC ridership was 34,618 in November 2011. MARC ridership was up 6.1 percent overall for the same period in 2011.

The MTA also set an overall record in February with an average weekday ridership of 414,867 across the system. (T WP)

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Norris had no teeth, no nose and only part of his tongue.

Doctors gave few details about the donor, citing the family’s desire for privacy. But the donor’s family was consulted specifically about donating the face, said Charles Alexander, president of the Living Legacy Foundation. He said that consenting to be an organ donor does not automatically extend to face donations.

It was the 23rd face transplant since doctors began doing the procedure seven years ago.

The University of Maryland’s research on transplants was funded by a grant from the Office of Naval Research, and doctors said they hope to begin operating soon on military patients.

“This was the perfect patient to put into practice what we had discovered in the laboratory,” transplant surgeon Rolf Barth said.

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After 15 years of wearing a mask and living as a recluse, a 37-yearold Virginia man disfigured in a gun accident got a new face, nose, teeth and jaw in what University of Maryland physicians say is the most extensive face transplant ever performed.

Richard Lee Norris of Hillsville is recovering well after last week’s surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center officials announced Tuesday. He’s also regained his sense of smell.

“He could not smell for the past 15 years, and that was the most dramatic thing ... he could finally smell,” lead surgeon Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez said.

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Police Probe Apparent Fairfax Murder-Suicide Fairfax County police say they are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Annandale that involves a former county police sergeant. Police say they found the bodies of 40-year-old John Jackson of Falls Church and his 13-year-old daughter Alexis Jackson inside an SUV parked in the driveway of a home in the 3800 block of Forest Grove Drive in Annandale about 1 a.m. Tuesday. (AP)

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich campaigned Tuesday in Annapolis, where he spoke to the Maryland Senate, toured several small businesses — including a jewelry store owned by a Republican delegate — and blasted Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposal to raise the gasoline tax.

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Gingrich was then given a brief tour of the historic State House before speaking to reporters, saying he intended to stay in the race despite his campaign’s financial troubles and Mitt Romney’s increasing lead in the delegate count.

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not. His trademark “Dougie” dance is on hiatus, nearly forgotten amid all of the losing.

While there are many positive things to say about Wall as a pro as he wraps up his second season — talented, hard-worker, well-behaved — one thing he isn’t, at least not yet, is a winner.

“There’s moments when you get down,” Wall said in an interview with The Associated Press. “It’s like you get down on yourself and the whole team — because you know when you play together, you play hard.”

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Still, the Wizards have their rudderless moments, particularly a recent loss to Golden State that had coach Randy Wittman apologizing for the team’s “unprofessional” effort. Those are the times when a captain needs to be an assertive leader. (AP)

The number of turnovers committed by John Wall this year, most in the NBA. His 3.9 turnover per game average is second worst behind Deron Williams of New Jersey.

bility, even though he hasn’t been around that long.

The Wizards can only be thankful that he’s no longer the player whose attitude problems got him cut from his high school team in Raleigh, N.C., and that he — at least publicly — displays remarkable perspective at age 21 and buys into the rebuilding program touted by owner Ted Leonsis.

“It’s not easy for me. When I was picked, I knew it was going to be a tough rebuilding process,” said Wall, who’s averaging 17.1 points, 7.9 assists and 4.8 rebounds per game. “You come in and you just try to compete. I asked KD [Kevin Durant] the same thing — how did he deal with his two years when he was struggling.

“One thing is, you just come in early and be the last one to leave the gym, just be a leader that way and make sure you’re working on your game and getting better every day.

The time will come that things will change around.” JOSEPH WHITE (AP)

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For all the talk about the strides soccer has made in the United States, results of late have been stark and disappointing.

The Americans were eliminated by Ghana in the last two World Cups. The under-20 team’s streak of seven trips to the world championship ended last year. And now the under-23s have failed to make two of the last three Olympics after their elimination Monday night.

Yes, the U.S. plays the world’s game better than it did 25 years ago. The national team even notched its first win ever over powerhouse Italy last month. But the sputtering nature of the American program

Freddy Adu, left, is consoled after the Americans’ tie with El Salvador on Monday.

has even its most loyal supporters scratching their heads.

The under-23 team was eliminated from Olympic qualifying when it conceded a goal in the final

Salary Cap Penalties Approved J^[ H[Zia_di NFL owners ratified the agreement between the league and players’ union that takes away $36 million in salary cap space from the Redskins and $10 million from the Cowboys.

Other than Dallas and Washington, no club voted Tuesday to oppose the agreement, which raised the salary cap for 2012 from about $113 million to $120.6 million. The

Cowboys and Redskins have sought arbitration, which will be conducted by University of Pennsylvania professor Stephen Burbank.

Both teams were penalized for overloading contracts in the 2010 uncapped season despite league warnings not to do so. Each must take at least half the reduction this year. The Cowboys will play in the season opener on Sept. 5 at the Super Bowl champion New York Giants. (AP)

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BASEBALL (1 P.M., ESPN) The New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves meet in an exhibition game.

PREP HOOPS (9:30 P.M., ESPN) The McDonald’s All-American Game tips off in New York.

TENNIS (1 P.M., 7 P.M., ESPN2) The quarterfinals of the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Fla.

Georgetown junior Hollis Thompson plans to skip his senior year, hire an agent and enter the NBA draft. Coach John Thompson III said Tuesday the Hoyas “fully anticipated” the 6-foot-8 junior — who is not related to the coach — would leave school. Hollis Thompson initially declared for the 2011 NBA draft, too, but returned to school. He ranked second on Georgetown this season by averaging 12.8 points and third with 5.5 rebounds per game. (AP)

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Don’t Do It Again Hollywood has a problem with comedy sequels: It can’t seem to stop making them. Last week Warner Bros. announced that “The Hangover Part III” would hit theaters on May 24, 2013. On April 6 another formulaic franchise gets its fourth outing in “American Reunion.”

Sequels aren’t just limited to the hits. Broken Lizard, the troupe behind 2001’s “Super Troopers,” says it’s close to reviving that cult favorite. “Wet Hot 8o HkZ_ American Summer,” =h[[dX[h] which brought in less than $300,000 at the box office in 2001 but had a second life on DVD, may also get a new act.

But why mess with the magic of two films made more than a decade ago? Kevin Smith returned to the well with “Clerks II” in 2006 — 12 years after the original. All that did was make people question why they liked “Clerks” in the first place.

At least “Bridesmaids” star Kirsten Wiig realizes there isn’t a reason — beyond making money — to film “Bridesmaids 2.” “We had a special time making the first one, but we’re really excited to try something else,” she told E! in January.

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Nine hours after completing a historic solo dive to the deepest slice of the ocean floor, Cameron described his “very surreal day” in the language of an astronaut.

“When I came down, landed, it was very, very soft, almost gelatinous, a flat plain, almost featureless plain, and it just went out of sight as far as I could see,” Cameron said. “My feeling was one of complete isolation from all of human-

ity. I felt like I had literally, in the space of one day, gone to another planet and come back.”

Cameron’s adventure began at midnight, a day late because of choppy seas. He prepped the Deepsea Challenger for a few hours, then at 5:15 a.m. his time Monday began a quick but uncomfortable descent.

His goal when he got to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean — a depth of 35,576 feet — was to search for life. “We’d all like to think there are giant squid and sea monsters down there,” he said. There weren’t.

He saw no fish, either. He found “nothing larger than about an inch across” — shrimplike scavengers called amphipods.

Cameron described extremes of pressure and temperature like those experienced by space travelers. He scrunched himself into a tiny metal pilot sphere “kind of like a Mercury astronaut,” the first American

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His dive Monday took him nearly three times deeper. At the bottom, Cameron reminded himself of a lesson he learned at the Titanic: He turned away from the monitors and touch screens and cameras stuffed into the cockpit and spent a pure moment “bearing witness, a sense of just being here.” Alone, in the deepest dark, Cameron peered out a small window and soaked in the desolate wonder of an alien realm. (T WP)

space travelers.

With high-definition 3-D cameras filming, Cameron wanted to grab rock and sediment samples with the sub’s hydraulic arms. But soon after taking his first sample, a swirl of hydraulic fluid drifted past his porthole. The arm was dead, its liquid lines crushed by pressure. A bit of the sediment survived inside a container and made it to the surface, but Cameron had to abandon plans to grab extensive samples on the quest, which was sponsored by the National Geographic Society.

Cameron sees his journey as the beginning of a long-term campaign to study the deepest slices of the ocean, the “hadal depths.” These trenches make up about 3 percent of the sea bottom — an area as vast as the United States — but remain almost entirely unexplored.

“It’s time to finally open up this frontier to science,” Cameron said.

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“Sucker Punch” solves that problem by setting its story — of young athletes hoping to leave poverty behind — in a boxing ring. The script, by Roy Williams, has actors throwing physical and verbal punches with equal force. Studio Theatre, 1501 14th St. NW; through April 8, $35-$69; 202-332-3300, Studiotheatre.org. (Dupont Circle)

Diamond Is Forever

Artisphere is screening films by director Robert Rodriguez, the enigma who somehow brought the world “Spy Kids” AND “Machete.” His bloody 1996 vampire flick, “From Dusk Till Dawn,” starring genius/weirdo Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney as criminal brothers on the lam who end up fighting supernatural forces, screening tonight, is a classic. Artisphere, 1101 Wilson Blvd., Arlington; 8 p.m., $8; 703-875-1100, Artisphere.com. (Rosslyn)

Rebound relationships can be embarrassing in retrospect.

Take Van Halen and Sammy Hagar, for example. They made some OK songs together. He just doesn’t make you laugh like David Lee Roth here. Thank goodness Diamond Dave and VH have been back together for a while, restoring order to the rock universe. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW; Wed., 7:30 p.m., $49.50-$149.50; 202-6283200, Verizoncenter.com.

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But when the couple gets to city hall, they discover that Whitney’s driver’s license has expired, setting in motion a chain of events that derails their nuptial plans. Whitney’s father (guest star Peter Gallagher, right) comes to the rescue, but he may not be able to save the day. (TM) D89

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Series star Sophia Bush, above, directed this episode of “One Tree Hill” (8 p.m., CW), in which her character, Brooke, tries to come to terms with her father’s betrayal amid preparations for Tree Hill’s Burning Boat Festival. Elsewhere, Haley (Bethany Joy Lenz) gets ready for her emcee gig at the event. Julian (Austin Nichols) tries to revive an old idea.

Mouth (Lee Norris) and Millie (Lisa Goldstein) make some changes to their show. (TM)

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Woods at Addison

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SE

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Emerald 1 BR, $700 Gold 2 BR, $780 Diamond 2 BR $890 Platinum 3 BR 1.5 BA $990 Call 202-889-4116 for more info.

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1720 Trenton Pl., SE

202-492-7230

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106 Wilmington Pl., SE

M-F—8:30-6:00 S—10:00-2:00

Southeast

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908 Marcy Ave. • Oxon HIll, MD 20745

5249 Kenilworth Ave. • Hyattsville, MD 20781

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2252 Brightseat Road • Landover, MD 20785

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301-760-4270

6617 Atwood Street • District Heights, MD 20747

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3402 Dodge Park Rd. • Landover, MD 20785

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301-779-1734

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6747 Riverdale Rd. Riverdale, MD 20737

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SILVER SPR/Forest Glen Metro-

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11175 Georgia Avenue

Wheaton, MD 20902

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BRAGG TOWERS

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FAIRFAX, VA - 1 bedroom with private bath.

Utilities, cable & internet included. $600/month.

3748 Prosperity Ave. 703-843-3721

SE - Furnished room in house, share BA/kit.

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N/S. $550.

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SUITLAND, MD 3 BR, 2.5 BA Townhome All brick end unit in gated community.

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Alexandria

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ROOMMATES ALEX/HUNTINGTON-Prof Female, N/S to shr small TH. 1BR, 1BA, $575+ a % of util. Dep req.

703-589-0285 ANDREWS AFB Area, MD- Nice furn room, nice area, kit privs. w/w. $550/mo + $150 sec dep.

Call 301-467-0981 BELTSVILLE - 1BR $450, 1BR $400, shr bath, all utilities separate. Shr sitting room, DR & kitch.

Call 301-538-8575 BURKE CENTER, VA - Male or Female, N/S. Basement for rent Near GU/Walmart $690/month includes utilities. Call 703-539-0043 CAP HEIGHTS/SUITLAND - Furn rm, quiet environ, nr metro. $155/wk & up + Dep. Cab Incld.

301-602-9120 CAP HGTS/Seat Pleasant- M to Shr House, $150 and up/week, good transportation.

301-499-6323

CAPITAL HEIGHTS, MD- Large room, 2 blocks to Metro, male pref. $145-$175.

Call 301-537-5433 or 240-244-1020 CAPITOL HILL -- Share house, rooms for rent, $175 weekly, minutes to downtown and metro.

202-412-6783 COLLEGE PK - Furn rm in SFH to shr w/2M, free net, cable, nr Greenbelt Metro, prof NS/NP. $550 1/3 utils+sec dep. Avail April 1.

240-876-1051

Forest Heights, MD— $650. N. Huron, 1 BR, access to BA, wash/dryer & kitch.

All utilities incl. 301-877-1306 FORT WASHINGTON,MD- Large house to share.

Free cable. Close to Metro. W/D. $175/week. Call 240-882-8973 GAITHERSBURG Walk to bus/ mall/ school/ & Metro. W/D $500 Utils incld. Direct TV & WiFi opt. 240-821-3039

HERNDON/STERLING, VA - Basement for rent, private bath & entrance. $735 all utilities included.

Available 4/1.

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240-423-7923 internet. $650-$750.

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At least that got him some headlines and reminded us how cool he looks in a hoodie.”

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dit’s email to Politico reading “I apologize to anyone offended by what one prominent black conservative called my ‘very practical and potentially life-saving campaign urging black and Hispanic parents not to let their children go around wearing hoodies.’” The conservative referred to is Thomas Sowell in the National Review.

“It’s embarrassing, as they were favored in what was seen as the easier group.

It’s especially embarrassing since it happened on American soil. Fans will feel gutted. It will be a setback for promising coach Caleb Porter, though reflecting soberly it’s not that important.”

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isn’t particularly concerned that the United States’ U-23 men tied El Salvador Monday night, eliminating them from qualification for the 2012 London Olympics.

The Tumblr “Hunger Games Tweets” has collected a smattering of Twitter postings, with the goal of exposing “Hunger Games fans ... who dare to call themselves fans yet don’t know a damn thing about the books.” What people are saying is disappointing, sad, stomach-churning, and just plain racist.”

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number of postings expressing disappointment that a main character, Rue, was played by an actress of mixed race (Amandla Stenberg) in the movie.

“Michael Pollan is somehow considered some brilliant nutrition guru after revealing that eating fruits and vegetables is good for your health. ... He also asserts that you should never eat anything you can’t pronounce. But come on, buddy Mike, single-origin chocolate is often sourced from difficult to pronounce locations.”

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Nadya “Octomom” Suleman posed semi-nude for U.K. magazine Closer, which she told that she doesn’t want male attention. “I won’t date until the octuplets are 18,” says Suleman. “I’ll go out with no makeup on and wear tracksuits, a wig and even a fake pregnancy stomach to put [men] off.” She explained: “I know I’m beautiful — I don’t need a man to tell me that.” (E XPRESS)

Alicia Silverstone posted a video on Thekindlife.com of herself feeding her baby chewed food from her mouth.

“I fed Bear the mochi and a tiny bit of veggies from the soup ... from my mouth to his,” she wrote. “He literally crawls across the room to attack my mouth if I’m eating.” (EXPRESS)

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