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FILE- In this file photo dated Tuesday, June 26, 2012, two overweight women hold a conversation in New York, USA. Almost a third of the world population is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis released Thursday May 29, 2014, led by Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, USA, and paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Researchers reviewed more than 1,700 studies covering 188 countries covering over three decades and found more than 2 billion people worldwide classified as overweight or obese. The highest rates of obesity were found in the Middle East and North Africa, with the U.S. having about 13 percent of the world’s fat population. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, FILE)
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Washington Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman bats during batting practice before the Nationals' baseball game against the Miami Marlins at Nationals Park on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in Washington. Zimmerman is on the disabled list with a broken thumb, and was recently cleared to swing a bat. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Washington Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman holds the bat during batting practice before a baseball game against the Miami Marlins at Nationals Park on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in Washington. Zimmerman is on the disabled list with a broken thumb, and was recently cleared to swing a bat. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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The Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix is seen Wednesday May 28, 2014. About 1,700 veterans in need of care were "at risk of being lost or forgotten" after being kept off the official waiting list at the Phoenix veterans hospital, the Veterans Affairs watchdog said Wednesday. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Michael Chow) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES
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In speech after speech, President Obama blames everyone but himself for the nation's woes. (associated press)
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Washington Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman bats during batting practice before a baseball game against the Miami Marlins at Nationals Park Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in Washington. Zimmerman is on the disabled list with a broken thumb, and was recently cleared to swing a bat. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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FILE - In this June 25, 2011 file photo Audrey Berry, left, and Paxx Moll, right, have their picture taken in front of the Stonewall Inn in New York. The National Park Service is launching an initiative to make places and people of significance to the history of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans part of the national narrative. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer,File)
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In this April 15, 2013 photo, Laurie Bertram Roberts, left, president of Mississippi's chapter of the National Organization for Women, confronts an abortion opponent who was blocking the driveway to the Jackson Women's Health Organization's clinic in Jackson, Miss. Roberts has volunteered as an escort at the clinic and said if facilities close, women would likely try to end their own pregnancies in potentially dangerous ways. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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In this July 2, 2012 photo, abortion opponent Ashley Sigrest of Brandon, Miss., talks about her reasons she protests Jackson Women's Health Organization's clinic in Jackson, Miss. Sigrest said she regrets the abortion she had in August 1998 and supports admitting privileges laws because she believes they protect women’s health. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
