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Suzanne Sheppard of Lexington, Va., center, gets her eyes tested by optometrist John Leeth, left, at the Remote Area Medical's facilities at Southern Virginia University, Buena Vista, Va., Saturday, March 1, 2014. Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps (RAM) is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based, non-profit, volunteer, airborne medical relief corps that provides free health care, dental care, eye care, veterinary services, and technical and educational assistance to people in remote areas of the United States, and around the world for people that need it. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Suzanne Sheppard of Lexington, Va., center, gets her eyes tested by optometrist John Leeth, left, at the Remote Area Medical's facilities at Southern Virginia University, Buena Vista, Va., Saturday, March 1, 2014. Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps (RAM) is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based, non-profit, volunteer, airborne medical relief corps that provides free health care, dental care, eye care, veterinary services, and technical and educational assistance to people in remote areas of the United States, and around the world for people that need it. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Suzanne Sheppard of Lexington, Va., center, gets her eyes tested by optometrist John Leeth, left, at the Remote Area Medical's facilities at Southern Virginia University, Buena Vista, Va., Saturday, March 1, 2014. Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps (RAM) is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based, non-profit, volunteer, airborne medical relief corps that provides free health care, dental care, eye care, veterinary services, and technical and educational assistance to people in remote areas of the United States, and around the world for people that need it. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Suzanne Sheppard of Lexington, Va., right, gets her eyes tested by optometrist John Leeth, second from right, at the Remote Area Medical's facilities at Southern Virginia University, Buena Vista, Va., Saturday, March 1, 2014. Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps (RAM) is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based, non-profit, volunteer, airborne medical relief corps that provides free health care, dental care, eye care, veterinary services, and technical and educational assistance to people in remote areas of the United States, and around the world for people that need it. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Chris Gilliam of Buena Vista, Va., center, gets his eyes tested at the Remote Area Medical's facilities at Southern Virginia University, Buena Vista, Va., Saturday, March 1, 2014. Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps (RAM) is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based, non-profit, volunteer, airborne medical relief corps that provides free health care, dental care, eye care, veterinary services, and technical and educational assistance to people in remote areas of the United States, and around the world for people that need it. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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FILE - This March 6, 2014 file photo shows Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., left, and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate is heading toward a vote to change the military justice system to deal with sexual assault. The legislation would scrap the nearly century-old practice of an accused being able to use a "good soldier defense" to raise doubts that a crime had been committed. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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Jim Terwilliger, an economist with Gov. Dennis Daugaard's budget office, talks Monday, March 10, 2014, in Pierre, S.D., with the South Dakota Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee. Terwilliger says new estimates indicate state tax collections in the next year will fall short of projections made when the governor proposed a state budget in December. (AP Photo/Chet Brokaw)

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FILE - In this Monday, May 6, 2013, file photo, Syrian refugee Um Raad, 30, from Daraa, holds her 6 day-old son, Abdullah, at the Moroccan field hospital in Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border, in Mafraq, Jordan. Pregnant Syrian women say they never imagined giving birth outside their beloved homeland and inside a tough desert refugee camp across the border in Jordan where they battle heat, dust and to get enough drinking water. An international charity organization Save Children has warned Monday, March 10, 2014 of a health care disaster in Syria with newborns dying in hospital incubators during power cuts and children having their limbs amputated for lack of alternative treatment. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013 file photo, veiled Syrian women wait with their children for vaccinations against polio at one of the Syrian refugee camps in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon. An international charity organization Save Children has warned Monday, March 10, 2014 of a health care disaster in Syria with newborns dying in hospital incubators during power cuts and children having their limbs amputated for lack of alternative treatment. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, file photo, Syrian women wait with their children at the U.N. refugee agency's registration center in Zahleh, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. An international charity organization Save Children has warned Monday, March 10, 2014 of a health care disaster in Syria with newborns dying in hospital incubators during power cuts and children having their limbs amputated for lack of alternative treatment. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

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FILE - In this Monday, May 6, 2013 file photo, an obstetrician carries Um Eliaf's newborn daughter, Ibtesam, after delivery at the Moroccan field hospital in Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border, in Mafraq, Jordan. An international charity organization Save Children has warned Monday, March 10, 2014 of a health care disaster in Syria with newborns dying in hospital incubators during power cuts and children having their limbs amputated for lack of alternative treatment. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

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FILE - In this Monday, May 6, 2013 file photo, an obstetrician holds a baby after delivery at the Moroccan field hospital in Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border, in Mafraq, Jordan. An international charity organization Save Children has warned Monday, March 10, 2014 of a health care disaster in Syria with newborns dying in hospital incubators during power cuts and children having their limbs amputated for lack of alternative treatment. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)