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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HOLD FOR RELEASE UNTIL 5 P.M. EST ON WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29, 2014; THIS STORY MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST OR POSTED ONLINE BEFORE 5 P.M. EST ON WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29, 2014 - In this Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 file photo, Oumou Balde, 4, left, plays with her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)
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Randy Zuckerman talks to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District regarding their pending decision to expel students implicated in a hacking scandal at Corona del Mar High School on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 in Costa Mesa, Calif. The school board voted after a lengthy late-night session to punish 11 students accused of hacking into computers at a wealthy public high school to access tests and change grades. The Newport-Mesa Unified School District board deliberated for hours and emerged shortly after midnight Wednesday to announce it had decided to approve all the recommendations from administrators at Corona del Mar High School. Many of those recommendations involve punishment that is less severe than an expulsion, but the district could not give further specifics on the discipline, citing confidentiality rules, (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Rod Veal) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT
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Yolanda Newton, a parent of a student at Newport Harbor High, speaks to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 in Costa Mesa, Calif. The school board voted after a lengthy late-night session to punish 11 students accused of hacking into computers at a wealthy public high school to access tests and change grades. The Newport-Mesa Unified School District board deliberated for hours and emerged shortly after midnight Wednesday to announce it had decided to approve all the recommendations from administrators at Corona del Mar High School. Many of those recommendations involve punishment that is less severe than an expulsion, but the district could not give further specifics on the discipline, citing confidentiality rules, (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Rod Veal) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT
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Karen Yelsey, from left, Martha Fluor, Judith Franco, Walt Davenport and David Brooks, all members of the Newport-Mesa Unified School District board, listen to Dennis Ashendorf in a public comments meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 in Costa Mesa, Calif. The school board voted after a lengthy late-night session to punish 11 students accused of hacking into computers at the wealthy public high school to access tests and change grades. The Newport-Mesa Unified School District board deliberated for hours and emerged shortly after midnight Wednesday to announce it had decided to approve all the recommendations from administrators at Corona del Mar High School. Many of those recommendations involve punishment that is less severe than an expulsion, but the district could not give further specifics on the discipline, citing confidentiality rules, (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Rod Veal) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT
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Art teacher, Leigh Walker, entertains students over breakfast that spent the night at Oak Mountain Intermediate school on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Indian Springs, Ala. About 80 children and 20 adults spent the night at the school due to a winter storm. Tuesday's storm deposited mere inches of snow, barely enough to qualify as a storm up North. And yet it was more than enough to paralyze the Deep South. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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Sydney Jaffe, left, and Peyton Meadors, right, play a card game with others students stranded at Oak Mountain Intermediate school on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Indian Springs, Ala. About 80 children and 20 adults spent the night at the school due to a winter storm. Tuesday's storm deposited mere inches of snow, barely enough to qualify as a storm up North. And yet it was more than enough to paralyze the Deep South. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
