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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, FEB. 1 AND THEREAFTER - In this Jan. 16, 2014 photo, Sydney Gramm, center, laughs as she tries to move in a wheelchair as Savanna Klobnak, 14, right, gives her classmates at Germantown Hills Middle School a chance to sit in her chair as they play wheelchair basketball in Germantown Hills, Ill. Klobnak uses a wheelchair because of spina bifida. Klobnak and nine teammates, ages 7 to 16, play on the Peoria Wildcats wheelchair basketball team in a program run by the Heart of Illinois Special Recreation Association. (AP Photo/Journal Star, Fred Zwicky)
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In this Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 file photo, Oumou Balde, 4, left, plays with her teacher Jacqualine Sanchez, right, and some pretend food in a pre-kindergarten class at the Sheltering Arms Learning Center in New York in a program that was produced in conjunction with the Sesame Street children's television show to educate children about nutrition and health. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 finds that much of a child's "weight fate" is set by age 5, and that nearly half of kids who became obese by the eighth grade were already overweight when they started kindergarten. Researchers think there may be a window of opportunity to prevent it, and "we keep pushing our critical window earlier and earlier on," said Solveig Cunningham, a scientist at Emory University. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics' students Lucy Su, top, Gabrielle Beaudry, center, and Luckshume Ketheeswaran slide down a hill at the Hillsndale Golf Course in Durham N.C. on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. A rare snowstorm left thousands across the U.S. South frozen in their tracks, with workers sleeping in their offices, students camping in their schools, and commuters abandoning cars along the highway to seek shelter in churches or even grocery stores. (AP Photo/The Herald-Sun, Bernard Thomas)
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Chris Smith with the Facilities Department at Virginia Western Community College throws salt on steps around campus as the snow fell on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Roanoke, Va. (AP Photo/The Roanoke Times, Stephanie Klein-Davis)
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HOLD FOR RELEASE UNTIL 5 P.M. EST ON WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29, 2014; THIS STORY MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST OR POSTED ONLINE BEFORE 5 P.M. EST ON WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29, 2014 - In this Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 file photo, Oumou Balde, 4, left, plays with her teacher Jacqualine Sanchez, right, and some pretend food in a pre-kindergarten class at the Sheltering Arms Learning Center in New York in a program that was produced in conjunction with Sesame Street to educate children about nutrition and health. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 finds that much of a child's "weight fate" is set by age 5, and that nearly half of kids who became obese by the eighth grade were already overweight when they started kindergarten. Researchers think there may be a window of opportunity to prevent it, and "we keep pushing our critical window earlier and earlier on," said Solveig Cunningham, a scientist at Emory University. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
