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Description Immaculate 4 Bedroom, 2. 5 Bath Contemporary Colonial in Desirable Four Corners Resort-Style Community. Just Steps Away from Award-Winning Clubhouse and Amenities. Stately Columns invite you into Formal Living Rm/Entertainment Rm and Formal Dining Rm . Open Concept Kitchen w/Granite Countertops, Stainless Steel Appliances and Center Island w/Storage, leads to Breakfast Nook and Family Room w/Soaring Ceiling and Gas Fireplace. French Doors to Main Level Office/Library. Deck off Family Room. Main Level Laundry . Upstairs is a Master Bedroom Suite w/Spa Bathroom and Double Walk-in-Closets. Additional 3 large bedrooms and Main Bath. Full Walk-Out Basement with 9 ft ceilings, waiting to be finished. 2 Car Attached Garage . City Water/Sewer and Gas Heat. You will enjoy Swimming, Tennis, Basketball, Movies, Playground and more just a few steps outside your door! A Truly Idyllic place to call home! Come and See

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 21— Betty Rice owns a turquoise three- story Victorian house with two fireplaces, an $80 handmade chandelier in the front parlor and a bedroom furnished with an ornate brass bed . Her house is a few steps from Gene Farrow's supermarket, where the shelves hold 65 flavors of canned soup, 10 brands of pet food and 10 kinds of frozen dinners. Just around the corner, a man is busy spray-painting a 50-year-old convertible in David Brown's garage. Like everything else on display at the Miniature Industry Association of America's annual trade fair , no building in the neighborhood is more than four feet tall and the furnishings average three inches in height. With doll house rooms that cost $10,000 to furnish and tiny oil paintings worth $6,000, the fair filled the sprawling suburban Northland Mall with collectors and owners of shops that specialize in selling miniatures . For the last four days they have placed orders, exchanged ideas and talked about...

And if you were a nine-year-old girl at any point during the last 30 years, you are almost certainly familiar with American Girl. It very well may have been an essential part of your nine-year-old girldom. From the beginning, from the time it was a mere kernel of an idea scrawled on a postcard, American Girl was engineered for nine-year-old girls. It all began when Pleasant Rowland, who was working for an educational publishing company at the time, took a trip to Colonial Williamsburg. Rowland had had a varied career; she'd been an elementary school teacher , a TV news reporter , a textbook writer. History and education were her passions, and while she was in Virginia, inspiration struck. She sent a postcard detailing her plan to her friend Valerie Tripp , a children's author. As she recalled at American Girl's 25th anniversary celebration , it went something like this: "I've been down in Williamsburg this week and had an idea. What do you think of it? A series of...