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**FILE** Yayoflautas occupy the Barcelona headquarters of the Catalan private healthcare provider's association on Dec. 22, 2011, in protest against cuts in health spending. (Oscar Martinez/Special to The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Yayoflautas occupy the Barcelona headquarters of the Catalan private healthcare provider's association in protest against cuts in health spending on Dec. 22, 2011. (Oscar Martinez/Special to The Washington Times)

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“We have one chance to do this right” - Dr. Mohammad Akhter, chairman of the District’s health exchange board. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Yayoflautas occupied the headquarters of the Catalan privatehealth care provider’s association in Barcelona, proving that they won’t take spending cuts lying down. (Oscar Martinez/Special to The Washington Times)

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Ian King, senior vintage systems engineer at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, stands by a memory module of an early 1970s computer with 16 kilobytes of memory. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Medical marijuana is packaged for sale in 1-gram packages at the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary in Seattle on Nov. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** An unidentified man lights up his pipe during a marijuana users rally at Civic Center Park across from the Capitol in Denver on April 20, 2010. Thousands of marijuana users gathered for the High Holiday, when pot users traditionally celebrate the drug, to urge Colorado to consider legalizing the drug for recreational use. (Associated Press)

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Jake Dimmock, co-owner of the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary in Seattle, works on balancing the pH level of the soil used to grow new medical marijuana plants on Nov. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A medical marijuana plant is shown at the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary in Seattle on Nov. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Jake Dimmock, co-owner of the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary, works on Nov. 7, 2012, with flowering plants in a grow room in Seattle. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Tea Party activists protest Sept. 4, 2011, against Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a Tea Party Express rally in Concord, N.H. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Tea Party Patriots National founders and coordinators Mark Meckler (left) and Jenny Beth Martin take part in a news conference Sept. 21, 2010, at the National Press Club in Washington to announce that the organization received a major donation. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Ann Kalifrath listens Sept. 4, 2011, to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speak at a Tea Party Express rally in Concord, N.H. (Associated Press)