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Dance teacher Nancy Raddatz, left, guides adult students Ann Gaetke, Mary Burnell and Cindy Hedum, foreground to background, through a lyrical dance routine, Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at her dance studio in West St. Paul, Minn. Raddatz has studied, performed and choreographed dance in the United States and overseas. She choreographed "Disabled Genius," performed in Minneapolis in 1982 in observance of the 40th anniversary of the Sister Kenny Institute. (AP Photo/Minnesota Public Radio, Jennifer Simonson)
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Dance teacher Nancy Raddatz provides instruction during an adult tap class Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at her dance studio in West St. Paul, Minn. Raddatz has studied, performed and choreographed dance in the United States and overseas. She choreographed "Disabled Genius," performed in Minneapolis in 1982 in observance of the 40th anniversary of the Sister Kenny Institute. (AP Photo/Minnesota Public Radio, Jennifer Simonson)
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In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, an aid worker measures the upper arm circumference of 9-month-old Shurouk as her mother Mervat, 31, holds her inside their tent at a camp for Syrian refugees camp in Kab Elias, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The measurement is an immediate indicator of malnourishment. Trapped in her northern Syrian village by fighting, Mervat watched her newborn baby progressively shrink. Her daughter’s dark eyes seemed to grow bigger as her face grew more skeletal. Finally, Mervat escaped to neighboring Lebanon, and a nurse told her the girl was starving. Such stark malnutrition was rare in Syria in the past, but as the country’s conflict enters its fourth year, international aid workers fear malnutrition is rising among children in Syria and among refugees amid the collapse in the health care system.(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, Mervat, 31, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press as she holds her 9-month-old daughter Shurouk inside their tent at a camp for Syrian refugees in Kab Elias, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Trapped in her northern Syrian village by fighting, Mervat watched her newborn baby progressively shrink. Her daughter’s dark eyes seemed to grow bigger as her face grew more skeletal. Finally, Mervat escaped to neighboring Lebanon, and a nurse told her the girl was starving. Such stark malnutrition was rare in Syria in the past, but as the country’s conflict enters its fourth year, international aid workers fear malnutrition is rising among children in Syria and among refugees amid the collapse in the health care system.(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, Mervat, 31, stands outside of her tent as she holds her 9-month-old daughter Shurouk, at camp for Syrian refugees camp in Kab Elias, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Trapped in her northern Syrian village by fighting, Mervat watched her newborn baby progressively shrink. Her daughter’s dark eyes seemed to grow bigger as her face grew more skeletal. Finally, Mervat escaped to neighboring Lebanon, and a nurse told her the girl was starving. Such stark malnutrition was rare in Syria in the past, but as the country’s conflict enters its fourth year, international aid workers fear malnutrition is rising among children in Syria and among refugees amid the collapse in the health care system.(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, two aid workers measure one year-old Syrian refugee Jawad al-Abbas at a medical clinic in the town of Kab Elias in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Three years after Syria’s uprising began to overthrow President Bashar Assad, spiraling into a war that has killed over 140,000 people and sending over 2.5 million people fleeing into neighboring countries, aid workers say are now seeing malnutrition emerge, once a barely known scourge in Syrian society. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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In this Tuesday, March. 11, 2014 photo, aid workers measure the upper arm circumference, to check for signs of malnutrition in one year-old Syrian refugee Mahmoud al-Khatar at a medical clinic in the town of Kab Elias in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Three years after Syria’s uprising began to overthrow President Bashar Assad, spiraling into a war that has killed over 140,000 people and sending over 2.5 million people fleeing into neighboring countries, aid workers say are now seeing malnutrition emerge, once a barely known scourge in Syrian society. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
